Environmental damage from shelling and fires

Environmental damage
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estimates of environmental damage from war and poaching

Environmental damage is harm to air, soil, water and fish stocks that the State Environmental Inspectorate calculates in hryvnias after shelling, fires and breaches of environmental law. In July 2026, shelling and fires caused more than ₴817 million in environmental damage in Mykolaiv Oblast, and the fires after the September attacks on Epicentr and METRO in Mykolaiv were assessed at ₴7.3 million.

MykVisti reports on environmental losses from Russian attacks on Mykolaiv, Odesa and Kherson Oblasts, as well as illegal fishing and crayfish catching, sand extraction and tree felling.

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20:33, 20 August, 2025

Russia's attack on Mykolaiv caused more than ₴20 million in environmental damage
23:28, 7 May, 2025

Russian attack on Mykolaiv caused over ₴172 million in environmental damage
14:46, 25 March, 2025

Russian attacks caused ₴2.5 million in damage to the environment in Mykolaiv region last months
20:49, 3 February, 2025

Russian shelling of Odesa region's port infrastructure caused ₴1.2 million in environmental damage
18:10, 16 December, 2024

The amount of damage to Ukraine's ecology since the start of the full-scale invasion has reached ₴3.1 trillion
14:18, 27 November, 2024

The company Ekologiia in the Odesa region will pay more than ₴11 million in fines for land pollution
12:34, 20 November, 2024

Due to the war in Ukraine, 3 million hectares of forests were destroyed, and the territories contaminated by explosives exceed the area of Azerbaijan
6:17, 6 June, 2024

Shelling of the Shevchenkove community in the Mykolaiv region: experts calculated environmental damage of ₴1.7 billion

Mykolaiv Alumina Plant sale delayed until 2027, with future of red mud storage facilities still uncertain

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Mykolaiv Alumina Plant sale delayed until 2027, with future of red mud storage facilities still uncertain

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Sienkevych stated that he had no grounds for dismissing the head of the sports department

Overnight Russian attack damages 356 windows and 49 doors in Mykolaiv

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