The State Environment Inspectorate of Ukraine reported in December that Russia's war has polluted more than 291 million square meters of land.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Monday that Russia violated an article of the 1949 Geneva Conventions by causing around $35 billion in environmental damage in Ukraine amid its ongoing war.
"The damage to the ecology caused by Russia is estimated at $35.3 billion. Millions of hectares of nature preserves are under threat.
"This protection includes a prohibition of the use of methods or means of warfare which are intended or may be expected to cause such damage to the natural environment and thereby to prejudice the health or survival of the population." Additionally, attacks against the environment that are carried out as retaliation are also prohibited under Article 55, according to the International Humanitarian Law Databases.
Above, this photograph taken on November 29, 2022, shows a destroyed bridge in Bakhmut, in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Monday that Russia violated an article of the 1949 Geneva Conventions by causing around $35 billion in environmental damage in Ukraine amid its ongoing war.
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