russians will have to answer: ecologists made a list of crimes against environment for July

These include: the shelling of a tanker in the Black Sea, destruction of chemical plants, mine pollution, fires on 1.5 million hectares of land, destruction, and seizure of green energy facilities

Experts from the public organization "Environment. People. Law" on its Facebook page published a list of war crimes committed by the russians during the fifth month of the war. The data is impressive: crimes are committed almost every day:

• July 1. A refractory plant in Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region came under fire.
• July 3. As a result of shelling, the Avdiiv coke-chemical plant in the Donetsk region was destroyed, and a fire broke out. Shelling of the enterprise continued throughout the first half of July.
• July 3. After shelling the Vuhlehirsk thermal power plant in the Donetsk region, fuel oil tanks caught fire. This TPP was also bombed on July 8.
• July 4. The Ministry of Energy reported that the russian army destroyed, damaged, or occupied 90% of wind power plants in Ukraine. In addition, 30% of solar plants, 30.1% of cogeneration plants, and the Zaporizhzhia NPP were destroyed or captured.
• July 5. The State Environmental Inspectorate has published data on over 400 extraordinary events that have been processed, causing direct and indirect damage to the environment due to russian aggression since February 24. The approximate total of damages to the environment for many eco crimes amounts to almost 143 billion hryvnias.
• July 7. The russians once again hit the tanker "Millennial Spirit," flying the flag of Moldova with a missile near Odessa. At the time of the first hit, the ship carried more than 500 tons of diesel fuel.
• July 10. Field fires. According to Veronika Bakhal, spokeswoman of the main administration of the State Emergency Service in the Donetsk region, 597 hectares of wheat were destroyed due to fires caused by shelling.
• July 11. The russians seized the building and changed the management of the Institute of Animal Husbandry of the Steppe Regions "Askania Nova" in the Kherson region.
• July 12. A cable production enterprise in Kharkiv came under fire. The fire spread to premises with cables on ​​300 square meters. m.
• July 13. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation, more than 3,000 fires have been recorded on an area of ​​more than 1.5 million hectares, and forests and agricultural lands have been affected. People's deputy, chief coordinator of the Operational Headquarters for Fixing Eco-Crimes of the russian federation, Olena Kryvoruchkina, stated this.
• July 13. The ceramics factory in Slovyansk was shelled and destroyed.
• July 14. Previously, the amount of damage caused to Ukraine's nature due to russian armed aggression reached 202 billion hryvnias. This figure was named by the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, Ruslan Strilets.
• July 19. Mine pollution. Oleksiy Kuleba, the head of the Kyiv OVA, said that all settlements of the Kyiv region had been checked for the presence of explosive objects. Still, around 8,462 km2 of territories remain unexamined outside the settlements, of which 2,600 km2 are in the Exclusion Zone.
• July 20. In the Kryvorizky district, 50 hectares of fields were burned due to shelling. Earlier the same month, several tens of hectares of fields were burned.
  
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