The Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine, Ruslan Strilets, said that one of the consequences of the war was the improvement of environmental monitoring.
The country has created a special operational group (Operational Headquarters) under the State Environmental Inspection, which monitors damage to nature from the war, reports Euronews.
"Before the war, no one had the same methodology," Strelets said in an interview for the publication, adding that he "hopes" that no one will need it in the future.
He emphasized that over 2,000 cases of damage to the environment have already been recorded in 7 months of full-scale war, and damage to the environment in the amount of more than € 36 billion.
So only damage to the soil led to € 11.4 billion in damages, and air pollution - up to € 24.6 billion.
Strilets emphasized that as of August 2022, about 30% of Ukraine's 3 million hectares of protected natural territories have been bombed, polluted, burned or damaged by military maneuvers.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that at the UN conference "Environment for Europe", the ministers and heads of delegations of the participating countries signed a declaration that the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources called historic for Ukraine.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strilets said that Ukraine will initiate the creation of the Global Platform for the development of international methods for assessing environmental damage from military operations.
