“There is perhaps no starker a picture of how incredibly environmentally reckless — or ignorant — Russian troops have been as they attack Ukraine,” Wolfe321 writes.
The head of the exclusion zone state agency, Yevhen Kramarenko, told reporters on Wednesday that, during its five-week siege of the zone, the Russians had dug trenches and made shelters for their vehicles in an area known as the Red Forest — a 1.5-square-mile forest that died as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown.
Yevhen Kramarenko, head of the exclusion zone state agency. “Some sooner, some later.”“Historians may describe what happened around Chernobyl as a case of imperial hubris,” Luke Harding wrote inBut, while radioactive fallout is terrifying, there are many other long-term consequences to the disruption of Ukraine’s “ecological transition zone,” full of rare species and wetlands, that are already taking root — and will continue to occur — because of conflict.
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