In addition to thousands of deaths and the destruction of crucial infrastructure, another, more invisible, crisis tied to Russia’s invasion could haunt Ukraine for years: environmental damage.
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During the week from April 25 to May 1, forest fires broke out on a total area of over 800 hectares in the part of Kherson region temporarily occupied by Russian troops, while the occupiers did not allow Ukrainian forestry workers to extinguish fires.
Residents of Ukraine should comply with the ban on visiting forests in almost all regions of Ukraine, since mines and unexploded ordnance planted by Russian occupiers may be located on the territory of forestry.
In Ukraine, 600,000 hectares of forest land are in the zone of hostilities with Russian invaders, six regional departments, 17 state-owned enterprises and 136 forestries of the State Agency for Forest Resources of Ukraine are still on the front line, head of the department Yuriy Bolohovets wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.