Ukrainian Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strelets said that the environmental damage caused by the Russian operation in his country has reached $57 billion.
The Ukrainian Minister remarks came at a meeting of the international working group on the environmental impacts of the war, according to "Ukrinform".
"Over the past 2.5 months, the amount of damage to the environment has increased by almost $1.5 billion. It totals $57 billion. And these are far from the final numbers," the minister added.
Moreover, Strelets noted that work is currently underway on the development and implementation of a comprehensive plan for Ukraine’s ecological recovery from the consequences of the war.
It is worth mentioning that, about 2,500 cases of environmental damage have already been recorded in Ukraine.
The Prosecutor General's Office is investigating almost 200 facts of environmental war crimes.
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