Russian troops burned hectares of wheat and dry land in two regions. Photo. Video

Russian troops burned hectares of wheat and dry land in two regions. Photo. Video facebook.com/MNS.GOV.UA
Katerina Belousova

There are no victims or injured

On Tuesday, August 2, rescuers extinguished 8 fires in the Mykolayiv region, 5 of which were caused by russian shelling, and destroyed 1.5 hectares of bushes and dry grass.

In Donetsk region, near the village of Bila Gora of the Kramatorsk district, due to shelling by the occupiers, a fire destroyed 150 hectares of wheat, reports the State Emergency Service of Ukraine on Facebook.

Ecosystem fires, due to the ingress of ammunition and their fragments, occurred in open areas of Mykolaiv, Mykolaiv and Bashtan districts in the Mykolaiv region. People were not injured.

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Enemy shelling also caused a fire in a garage in one of the auto cooperatives of the Ingul district. Firefighters put out a fire with an area of ​​200 square meters. m was liquidated in the shortest possible time. As a result of the incident, six garages and two cars were destroyed.

In addition, on August 2, rescuers removed 1 explosive object.

In Donetsk region, rescuers from Kostyantyniv arrived on a call about a fire that occurred as a result of shelling outside the village White Mountain. Wheat burned on the root of an area of ​​10 hectares. By the time units arrived, the fire had destroyed 150 hectares of the field. People were not injured.

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Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in Luhansk oblast as a result of the actions of the russian troops, the fire destroyed 26,043 hectares of forest, which caused damage to the environment in the amount of about 98.7 billion hryvnias.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, in Zakarpattia oblast due to the burning of dry grass and bushes 269 ​​families were left without gas supply.

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