Monitoring the Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on January 6, 2023
By any measure, Russia’s war against Ukraine has been a humanitarian catastrophe. But beyond death, displacement, and human suffering, this war — like all wars — is a disaster for the environment.
Since 2014, and especially after Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor last February, Ukraine’s fertile steppelands have been transformed into killing fields, its forests into unmarked mass graves . . .