Kharkiv-based environmental activist Artem Prykhodko called on Ukraine to enlist the help of foreign partners to obtain about 28 tons of sorbents to clean up oil pollution in rivers.
As a result of the shelling of the oil depot, about 1,500 tons of fuel got into the rivers, but the only Ukrainian manufacturer has only 2 tons of coal sorbent, which will help to collect only 100 tons of oil, he wrote on his Facebook page.
As you know, about 3,000 tons of diesel fuel and gasoline were released into the environment as a result of an enemy attack on a tank farm in Kharkiv on February 9.
Prykhodko explained that 1 kg of sorbent can remove 50 kg of oil products. The Nemyshlya, Lopan and Udy rivers need to be cleaned up.
"It is necessary to connect the institutes of environmental problems, attract the help of foreign partners, look for other sorbents, otherwise there is no way to remove it. The consequences will be catastrophic for all living things in the water," he emphasized.
The eco-activist was also indignant at the lack of support from other regions and foreign partners.
"Where is the support from foreign partners, where is the help from neighboring regions, where is the help from Kyiv? In Kharkiv and Kharkiv region, there is an ecological disaster, the consequences will be catastrophic for everything living in the water and nearby. We need to save animals, we need to remove the oil spill from three rivers." , he wrote.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in Kharkiv, thousands of tons of diesel fuel and gasoline fell into the Lopan, Nemyshlya, and Udy rivers as a result of a hostile drone attack on February 9. However, local authorities responded to the pollution, which could lead to an environmental disaster, 4 days later.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, Kharkiv residents began bringing ducks poisoned by oil products to ornithologists to save them. The birds suffered from a diesel and gasoline spill that occurred due to enemy shelling of the oil depot.
