EU-backed project in Ukraine launches website to monitor Russian environmental war crimes

Ukraine’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has launched the EcoZagroza app to record environmental crimes committed by the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine. The application was developed as a part APENA 2 project, supported by the European Union.

EcoZagroza is an official web resource and a mobile application of the Ukrainian Ministry of Environmental Protection. It allows its users to monitor the quality indicators of air, water, soil, and other environmental indexes.

Ukrainians can also report all the facts of environmental crimes they have witnessed. For example, burning military equipment; forest fires; leaks of petroleum products or poisonous substances into the soil or water body; release of poisonous substances (chlorine, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, hydrocyanic acid, nitric acid) into the air, etc. 

This information is needed to rectify the consequences of the crimes as quickly as possible and to obtain compensation from the aggressor country for all the damage caused to Ukraine in the future.

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