In Kyiv, a missile strike on Monday, October 10, in the park of Taras Shevchenko caused damage to the plant world for 2.25 million hryvnias.
Environmental inspectors took soil samples to determine the level of pollutants, the State Environmental Inspectorate of the Capital District reports on Facebook.
The report noted that the park is an object of the natural reserve fund of local importance and a monument of landscape gardening art. It created the most significant and valuable examples of park construction.
Inspection of the park and fixation of environmental crimes were carried out by environmental inspectors together with representatives of the Kyivzelenstroy CO and the utility company for the maintenance of green spaces in the Shevchenkovsky district of Kyiv.
They found that the missile attack:
- destroyed 6 birches and chestnuts;
- destroyed 106.4 m2 of lawn;
- damaged 5 chestnuts.
The message also added that the results of the analysis of soil samples will be reported later.
"Russia will pay in full for each of our parks, each destroyed tree," the press service of the State Environmental Inspectorate stressed.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in the Sumy region, the shelling of the vicinity of the village of Staraya Guta by Russian troops destroyed 203 pines and birches in the Desnyansko-Starogutsky national park, which caused damage to the environment by 6.12 million UAH.
As EcoPolitic reported earlier, in the Zhytomyr region, a plane shot down in March 2022 that fell into the forest area of the State Enterprise "Shepetovsky Military Forestry" caused damage to forestry in the amount of more than 3 million hryvnia.
