The First Deputy Head of the State Environmental Inspection of Ukraine, Dmytro Zaruba noted on December 31, 2022, that the total amount of damage caused to the environment of Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion since February 2022 was more than 1.5 trillion hryvnias ($40.8 billion).
Source: The First Deputy Head of the State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine, Dmytro Zaruba
“Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 1042 facts of events that occurred on the territory of Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation and caused damage to the environment have been entered into the Unified Register of Damage. In particular, specialists of the State Ecological Inspectorate took 854 soil samples and 1138 water samples. As a result of the control measures, the damage to the environment was calculated. Thus, the total amount of damage caused to the atmospheric air, land and water resources is more than 1.5 trillion hryvnias,” explained Dmytro Zaruba, the First Deputy Head of the State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine.
Dmytro Zaruba noted that the methods to calculate the damage were developed and approved separately.
“So far we have not had such experience in calculating the environmental damage caused by the war,” added the First Deputy Head of the State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine.
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