The Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksiy Reznikov, stated that the Russian occupiers caused damage to the ecology of our state in the amount of 35.3 billion dollars.
He wrote about it on Twitter.
"Damage to the Ukrainian ecology caused by Russia is estimated at 35.3 billion dollars. Millions of hectares of nature reserves are under threat," the report said.
He reminded that Article 55 of the First Protocol forbids waging war against the natural environment through repression, but "Russia does not care about this."
The damage to the 🇺🇦 ecology caused by Russia is estimated at $35.3 billion. Millions of hectares of nature preserves are under threat. Article 55 of the Protocol I prohibits waging war VS the natural environment by way of reprisals, but Russia doesn’t care. tribunal4russia
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— Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) January 2, 2023
On March 20, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted the Procedure for determining damage and losses caused to Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, in particular in the areas of natural resources and infrastructure. Within a six-month period, the ministries, central and local bodies of executive power had to develop and approve the relevant methods.
On November 3, Minister of Environmental Protection approved the Methodology for determining damage and losses caused to the forest fund as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, which will also take into account lost income and damage from the destruction of animal habitats.
"This is already the fifth method developed by the ministry to determine the damage caused to the Ukrainian environment by the actions of the aggressor. There are two more on the queue - regarding the calculation of damages to the subsoil and territories and objects of the Nature Reserve Fund of Ukraine. We want the occupier to pay in full for his arbitrariness. Considering the number of crimes that the Russian Federation commits on our land every day, it will take more than a dozen years for the Russians to repay their debts to the Ukrainian people," commented the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, Ruslan Strilets.
At the beginning of November, Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Yevgeny Fedorenko stated that during the 8 months of full-scale invasion, Russia caused more than €37 billion in damage to Ukraine's environment. Sagittarius called the sum of 1 trillion hryvnias.
