In the Odesa region, the prosecutor's office opened criminal proceedings on the fact of ecocide, the mass death of dolphins, which has been going on for six months in the Black Sea due to the military aggression of the russians.
Law enforcement officers consider the use of sonar devices on the boats of the aggressor country to be the probable cause of the death of the animals, Kostyantyn Yalovy, a member of the Kyiv City Council of the 8th convocation, reports on Facebook.
Powerful sound waves literally blind dolphins, due to which the animals lose their orientation in space, cannot feed and die.
Yalovy said that the results of the autopsies of the dead dolphins were handed over to the specialists of the University of Padua in Italy, who have extensive experience in observing the life of marine fauna. Scientists from Hanover University in Germany will also join the investigation into the causes of the dolphins' deaths.
"Russia must be punished for every life that was lost due to its fault," he emphasized.
As EcoPolitic reported before, scientists of the Tuzlivski Lymani National Park calculated that during the period of the full-scale war in the Black Sea at least 5,000 dolphins died.
