In 2018, UN reported that war in Donbas had destroyed at least 530,000 hectares of land

“Donbas is on the precipice of an ecological catastrophe fueled by air, soil and water pollution from the combustion of large amounts of ammunition in the fighting and flooding at industrial plants,” Leila Urekenova, an analyst for the UN Environment Programme, said at the time. “There is an urgent need for ecological monitoring to assess and minimize the environmental risks arising from the armed conflict.”

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