The Office of the Ombudsman of Ukraine has created instructions for the public on how to report crimes against the environment that arose as a result of Russia's military aggression.
The press service of the ombudsman published a clear algorithm of actions.
You can contact:
- the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine, at the hotline number 0 800 500 115 "Environment in contact"; notify at the address: st. Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivskyi, 35, Kyiv, 03035 or by e-mail: info@mepr.gov.ua – for legal entities, gr_priem@mepr.gov.ua – for citizen requests.
- State Environmental Inspection of Ukraine at the address: Novopecherskyi lane 3, building 2, Kyiv, 01042, tel. (044) 521-20-38 or by e-mail: info@dei.gov.ua.
- the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection at the address: str. 1 Borysa Grinchenko, Kyiv, 02000, to the 24-hour hotline: (044) 364-77-80, (050) 230-04-28 or to e-mail: econsumer - info@dpss.gov.ua.
Today there are a number of online resources that record crimes against the environment:
– SaveEcoВot chatbot, you must first add it to Telegram or Viber;
– EcoShkoda chatbot;
– EcoZagroza application;
– the application "Ecoinspector 2" (Ecoinspector 2), which automatically generates appeals and reports environmental crimes to the State Environmental Inspectorate.
At the same time, you can contact the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine:
– at the address: str. Instytutska, 21/8, Kyiv, 01008;
– to e-mail: hotline@ombudsman.gov.ua;
– to the hotline: 0800501720;
– by phone 044-299-74-08.
It is noted that the materials received by the above-mentioned state bodies will serve as evidence for:
- determining the degree of environmental pollution,
- qualifications of the committed crime,
- calculating the damage of environmental crimes,
- identification and prosecution of guilty persons,
- as well as recovery of reparations from the Russian Federation.
"Conscious actions of every Ukrainian to record environmental crimes will help attract the attention of world organizations, parliaments of various states, experts, bring the issue of ecocide to international discussion. Thus, taking into account the comprehensiveness of the environmental issue, which has neither borders nor borders, taking into account the global consequences of the war for all of humanity, it is impossible to overestimate the responsibility that every conscious citizen bears to future generations," added the Office of the Ombudsman.
As EcoPolitic reported earlier, in September, Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Yevgeny Fedorenko stated that the amount of damage caused by Russian forces to the nature of Ukraine has already reached $35 billion and is growing every day.
Earlier, the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strelets said that the damage caused by Russian aggression to the environment of Kharkiv Oblast reached 83 billion hryvnias.
