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On July 20, Top Lead content marketing agency’s study “Russia-Ukraine War: Environmental Impact” on the impact of russian armed aggression on Ukraine’s environment will be presented at a press conference. The topics of focus include: what are the damages to the environment from the full-scale war; what is Ukrainian business doing to overcome the consequences of ecocide; the problem of demining agricultural land, “green” recovery.

Participants:

• Stanislav Shum, CEO Top Lead;
• Oleksandr Krasnolutskyi, First Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine;
• Natalia Slobodian, Head of the Climate Change and Environment Protection Department, DTEK;
• Mykhailo Rizak, Director for Government Relations and Sustainable Development, NIBULON;

Pre-accreditation required.

• ecology
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

Various items continue to wash up on the beaches of Odesa Oblast, including building parts and pieces of furniture that washed up in Kherson Oblast due to Russia blowing up the Kakhovka dam. City services periodically clean the city’s beaches, but the sea keeps bringing more and more debris to the shore. Journalists will have the opportunity to talk to environmentalists and volunteers who will show the state of the beaches and tell them about the dangers of coastal littering.

• ecology
• russian crimes
• Odesa

On June 8, Media Center Ukraine – Ukrinform will host a press conference by Dmytro Zaruba, First Deputy Head of the State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine. The topics of focus include: the ecological consequences of blowing up the Kakhovka HPP and the damage caused by russian aggression to the environment of Ukraine.

• ecology
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

Experts are calculating the ecosystem damage caused by Russia blowing up the Kakhovka dam. The Center for Environmental Initiatives Ecoaction (Ecodia) is ready to share contacts of English-speaking experts who can comment on these issues.

• ecology
• russian crimes
• Kherson
• Kyiv

An outpatient clinic in Horenka, Kyiv region, was shelled by the russians in February 2022. In November, the work began to rebuild the facility, with the principle of green restoration used in the process. Now the hospital is equipped with a modern heating system with a heat pump and a solar power plant with a battery.

With these innovations, the outpatient clinic has become more autonomous, and now it can work during power outages. In addition, heating costs were reduced by 80%, CO2 emissions decreased, and negative impact on the environment lessened.

• ecology
• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine says that according to preliminary estimates, the war has already caused more than UAH 2 trillion in damage to Ukraine’s environment (figures as of early May)

Journalists can learn more about the impact of russia’s full-scale invasion on the environment from experts from the Ecoaction Center for Environmental Initiatives. 

For reference:  The Center for Environmental Initiatives Ecoaction (Ecodia) is a non-governmental organization, whose experts and activists are united by the idea of preserving the environment through influencing decision-making.

• ecology
• russian crimes

Tuzly Lagoons National Nature Park together with Green Leaf NGO are holding an awareness raising event “Protect the dolphins — save the Black Sea.” The goal is to educate people about the impact of military operations on cetaceans in the Black Sea.

The park will present the results of its work in 2022. They monitored the death of dolphins caused by the war in the park. According to experts’ estimates, about 50,000 animals died. Hundreds of dolphins suffered concussions, which had never happened in the Black Sea before.

Book “War is the peak of the ecocide of Black Sea cetaceans” by Doctor of biological sciences Ivan Rusev, Head of the Research Department of Tuzly Lagoons National Nature Park, and “Black Sea Dolphins” poster will be presented at the event.

The event will take place in Odesa on April 21.

(April 22 is International Earth Day around the world)For reference: The Ministry of the Environment notes that, due to russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, about 600 species of animals and 750 species of plants and mushrooms are currently under threat of extinction.

• animals
• ecology
• russian crimes
• Odesa

On April 22, trees will be planted along the riverfront in Irpin as a part of “1 Million Trees of Life” rally (Greening of the Planet project). The purpose of the rally is to restore the earth’s ecosystem, unite the people of the planet and raise funds to buy 10 drones for the “1000 drones for Ukraine” project. Anica Djamić, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Croatia to Ukraine, and Ruslan Strilets, Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine, are to take part in the rally.

• ecology
• Kyiv

The operational headquarters of the State Ecological Inspectorate of Ukraine calculated the damage caused to the environment as a result of russia’s armed aggression. Its total amount reaches almost USD 52 billion (February 24, 2022 to March 3, 2023). This estimate includes air, land and water.

Journalists are invited to find out how much of Ukrainian land is polluted with remnants of ordnance, how many oil products were burned during shelling, and how many forests were burned by rockets and shells, etc. In addition, journalists can learn more about the methods that the State Ecological Inspectorate of Ukraine uses to estimate the damage to the environment as a result of russia’s full-scale invasion.

• ecology
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

In one of the villages in Lviv region, refugees (mostly from Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts) have set up an eco-farm and are building a house of hemp. In order to implement this project, “Go Friends” NGO had bought an abandoned farm and some land. A hundred people can live in such an eco-house. Currently, the refugees are busy insulating the walls of the future house.

In addition, the settlers have already brought in a hundred different animals to this eco-farm and are planting a vegetable garden. Five lakes on the farm were filled with fish.

The concept of this eco-household is that people work and provide themselves with food. There are also plans to start craft production on site.

• casualties
• ecology
• reconstruction
• Lviv