Ukraine's environmental ministry is recording the invasion's environmental toll in order to seek reparations after the war. Such fillings for environmental crimes have been relatively rare over the decades, though there is precedent
for more than 3 million people in the region, have caused water levels to drop, preventing river flows from clearing the chemicals. “The river cannot clean itself, as it was doing before the war,” Trofanchuk says.
Many staffers at Ukraine’s environmental ministry say they have been stunned by the scale of the environmental damage they have seen. “Before the invasion, we didn’t like when people burned leaves in the fall, because it pollutes the environment,” says Sydorenko. “You can imagine how small that is in comparison with fires at oil depots.”
One of his expert subgroups is responsible for figuring out a method to calculate the costs of air pollution caused by the war. That includes putting a price onreleased from dozens of oil depot attacks and forest fires over tens of thousands of acres set off by the fighting. The group must also figure out how air pollutants may have affected human health, explains Mykhailo Savenets, a meteorologist at the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute who leads the group.
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