The shelling of the pier in Mykolaiv: experts calculated more than ₴28 million in environmental damages

Consequences of shelling. Photo: Environmental Inspection of the South-Western District.

In Mykolaiv, due to the destruction of the pier as a result of enemy shelling, damage to the environment was caused in the amount of 28 million hryvnias.

This was reported in the State Environmental Inspection of the South-Western District.

In September 2022, the pier of the Mykolaiv Regional Center for Hydrometeorology was destroyed during the missile attack on Mykolaiv, and the expedition ship «Typhoon» was partially sunk.

Environmentalists point out that due to the destruction of the bridge, the South Bug brook is clogged. In addition, oil products from the sunken ship got into the water.

«State inspectors calculated the damage caused to the environment — more than 28 million hryvnias. The information has been transferred to the Operational Headquarters of the State Environmental Inspection of Ukraine for the formation of a single register of damages caused to the environment as a result of armed aggression,» the environmental inspection added.

We will remind that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russian troops, damage to the Ukrainian environment has been caused to the amount of 2.4 trillion hryvnias.

Earlier it was reported that experts calculated 73.5 million hryvnias of damage to the environment due to Russian shelling of the village of Lymany in Mykolaiv Oblast. The ecoinspection notes that the total volume of generated construction waste amounted to 43 cubic meters, and a plot of land with an area of 2,300 square meters was littered.

Also, as a result of forest fires caused by the war, more than 27 billion hryvnias of damage were caused to the environment of the Mykolaiv Oblast.