The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine approved the Methodology for determining damage and losses caused to the forest fund as a result of armed aggression of the Russian Federation, which will also take into account lost income and damage from the destruction of animal habitats.
Now estimated damage caused to forestry enterprises is 19.4 billion hryvnias , reports Ministry of Environment on Telegram.
It was noted that according to this Method, experts will determine the damage caused to land plots for forestry purposes, protective linear type plantings, forest nurseries, forest crops and hunting grounds.
It will also consider:
- losses from damage to harvested forest products;
- unearned income of forest users;
- loss of hunting farms as a result of destruction or damage to enclosures, other biotechnical facilities, hunting animals, etc.;
- damages for destruction or damage to nests, burrows, other habitats of animals, beaver dens, etc.
"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," said the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, Ruslan Strilets.
It was emphasized that since February 24, fighting took place in the forests on the square almost 3 million hectares. It is currently under occupation and in the war zone 450 thousand hectares of forests. In addition, the fires destroyed over 13 thousand hectares of forests.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in the Rivne region, eco-inspectors calculated more than 2.1 million hryvnias of damage to the environment from the Russian rocket fire on August 28 of the Sarne Forest Farm. The attack caused land contamination with chemicals and a forest fire.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Yevgeny Fedorenko said that in 8 months of full-scale invasion Russia has caused more than €37 billion in damage to Ukraine's environment.
