Russian troops burned a forest worth hundreds of millions of hryvnias in the Mykolaiv region

Russian troops burned a forest worth hundreds of millions of hryvnias in the Mykolaiv region mepr.gov.ua
Katerina Belousova

The case materials were handed over to the Operational Headquarters and the Mykolaiv Regional Prosecutor's Office

In the Mykolaiv region, repeated shelling by russian troops of the State Enterprise Mykolaiv Forestry caused large-scale fires that caused environmental damage in the amount of more than 111 million hryvnias.

Due to the fires, a large amount of harmful substances got into the air, the State Inspectorate reports on Facebook.

Eco-inspectors of the Mykolaiv and Odesa regions processed the data and calculated the amount of damage caused by atmospheric air pollution by unorganized emissions of pollutants or a mixture of such substances.

The case materials were handed over to the Operational Headquarters of the State Environmental Inspection of Ukraine and the Mykolaiv Regional Prosecutor's Office.

It was noted in the material that, due to shelling by russian troops, the fire damaged the territories of the nature reserve fund of the national nature park Kreminski lisy, the hydrological reserve of local importance Kreminski Kaptazhi and part of the Luhansk nature reserve Tryochizbensky Steppe. The amount of damages is 38,364,197,367 hryvnias.

Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in the Sumy region, an airstrike on the Sonyachna Polyana recreation center, which is located in the middle of the Sumy forest farm, caused damage in the amount of almost 1.73 million hryvnias.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, in Kharkiv destruction of the hotel "Kharkiv" by russian troops caused damage to the environment in the amount of 752.3 million hryvnias.

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