One day of Russian military aggression costs €102 million or 4 billion hryvnia of damage to the Ukrainian environment, Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strilets said on Saturday.
“1 day of the great war = 102 million euros or 4 billion hryvnia of environmental damage. And that’s without taking into account Russia’s ecocide at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant,” the government portal quoted Strilets as saying.
He noted that every day inspectors of the State Ecological Inspectorate of Ukraine record the destruction of the environment from hostilities, large losses of natural resources continue.
“Today there are already about 51 billion euros or 2 trillion hryvnias of environmental damage. This means that every day of war costs Russia at least 102 million euros or 4 billion hryvnias of environmental damage,” the minister believes.
Strilets said that the aggressor country must pay for all the damage caused, and to this end, Ukraine is working on the recognition of ecocide in international law.
