The destruction of the Komandor warehouse near Kyiv caused colossal environmental damage

The destruction of the Komandor warehouse near Kyiv caused colossal environmental damage facebook.com/SEI.CD
Katerina Belousova

The rocket attack completely destroyed the office and warehouse complex and 60 trucks

Eco-inspectors calculated 126 million hryvnias in damages from the destruction by Russian troops of warehouses of Komodor LLC in the village of Kalynivka, Buchansky district of Kyiv region.

The missile strike caused a large-scale fire, debris from the warehouse and cars littered 1.1 hectares of land, reports the State Environmental Inspection of the Capital District.

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It is noted that the missile attack was carried out by the enemy in March 2022, when Kalynivka was under occupation. This caused a fire and the complete destruction of the office-warehouse complex with a total area of ​​6.8 hectares and the complete destruction of auxiliary buildings. Also, as a result of the enemy attack, more than 60 units of large vehicles were burned.facebook.com/SEI.CD

The message emphasized that more than 5.5 thousand tons of carbon dioxide and 2.3 tons of nitrogen dioxide entered the atmosphere during the burning. Losses from the unorganized release of pollutants reached 12.6 million hryvnias.facebook.com/SEI.CD

The press service said that the wreckage of the office-warehouse complex and cars littered 1.1 hectares of territory. The height of the debris of the destruction reached 1.8 m. The amount of damage to the land reached 113.5 million.

Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in Brovary, Kyiv region, the commission on technogenic and ecological safety and emergency situations discussed the disposal of 19,000 m3 of products from the bombed warehouse.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, from February 24 to December 2022, Russian aggression caused 47.5 billion hryvnias of damage to the environment of Kyiv and the region.

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