Eco-inspectors calculated more than 1 trillion 896 billion hryvnias of environmental damage caused by the Russian army to the environment of Ukraine during 11.5 months of full-scale war.
They also published quantitative indicators of the damage caused by the occupiers on the territory of Ukraine, the State Environmental Inspection reports on Facebook.
It is noted that the calculation was carried out in accordance with the methods that determine the amount of damage caused to land, water resources and atmospheric air.
General damages:
- soil pollution and littering of land – more than 847 billion hryvnias;
- atmospheric air pollution – 992 billion hryvnias;
- pollution and clogging of water resources – more than 56 million hryvnias.
The press service also emphasized that eco-inspectors recorded the following eco-losses for almost a year of the war:
- more than 280,000 m2 of soil is contaminated with dangerous substances;
- 14 million m2 of land is littered with the remains of destroyed objects and ammunition;
- 687,000 tons of petroleum products were burned during the shelling, polluting the air with dangerous substances;
- more than 59,000 hectares of forests and other plantations were burned by rockets and shells, some of them, according to the most optimistic forecasts, may be restored within ten years, the rest are lost forever;
- 1,597 tons of pollutants entered water bodies;
- 2 million 903 kg of foreign objects, materials, waste and other substances got into water bodies.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that the the full-scale war in 11 months caused more than $46 billion in damage to Ukraine's environment, which Russia will be required to compensate.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, a preliminary assessment of the impact of the war in Ukraine on the ecological situation showed that the war is literally toxic, and future generations will live "with a toxic legacy".
