More than 6 thousand different cases have already been recorded.
Fire extinguishing in Kharkiv region on June 11-12, 2024
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, as of September 2024, Russia has caused environmental damage to Ukraine in the amount of more than 2.6 trillion hryvnia.
This was reported by the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Svitlana Grinchuk in an interview with Ukrinform.
is one of the largest in monetary terms, because it is a huge the amount of damaged and destroyed agricultural land, forest lands of nature conservation and industrial status, polluted basins of our waterways,” Grinchuk said.
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She specified that more than 6 thousand different cases have been recorded for a total of about 2.6-2.7 trillion hryvnia.
As Grinchuk added, fires are recorded daily on hundreds of hectares of forests. At the same time, it is impossible to use traditional means to extinguish these fires due to mining. The number of mined forests is estimated at 0.5 million hectares, and the estimated damage to the nature reserve fund of Ukraine is almost 650 billion hryvnia.