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Part of Ukraine's environment cannot be restored after war - ecologist

Sofia Polonska
13 November, 2024 Wednesday
20:11

Expert of the National Interests Advocacy Network - ANTS, ecologist Oleh Lystopad said that most of the damaged Ukrainian environment is not subject to restoration

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He told about this on Espreso TV.

‘Part of the Ukrainian environment will never be restored. For example, in France, there is still a red zone on the sites of intense fighting during the World War I.  They decided that it would be more expedient to simply fence off the area and not allow anyone to enter it, as it is heavily contaminated with explosives and probably chemicals as well. Unfortunately, we also have large areas of territory where it would be easier to fence them off and declare them a red zone with no access than to restore these areas,’ explained Lystopad.

The ecologist stressed that the process of restoring the environment after hostilities takes a long time and a lot of resources.

‘Even an ordinary ammunition crater needs to be properly filled in several layers. In addition, demining must be carried out beforehand. This is impractical and takes a lot of time and effort. It should also be borne in mind that chemicals remain in the ground after an explosion. Therefore, these are additional resources. As for the forest, for example, it takes 80 years for a pine forest to grow to an industrial scale. If it is other types of trees, it will take even longer,’ he said.

  • On October 3, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets said at the International Baku Forum of Ombudsmen on Climate Change and Human Rights that Russia had caused $64 billion worth of damage to Ukraine's environment. 
  • Earlier, the head of the Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, said during a meeting of the International Working Group on the Environmental Consequences of War that Ukraine would demand compensation from Russia for environmental damage.
  • On November 8, Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Svitlana Hrynchuk said at the conference ‘Climate and Energy Policy of Ukraine in the Context of Accession to the EU’ that as a result of full-scale Russian aggression, carbon dioxide emissions in Ukraine increased by 180 million tonnes.
     
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