“The burning area has already been reduced fivefold – from 500 to 100 hectares”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to him, the burning area has already been reduced fivefold – from 500 to 100 hectares.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources reported that as of September 17, 20 forest fires were being extinguished in Ukraine. In general, according to the ministry, 440 fires with an area of 400 hectares occurred in Ukraine this year, 60% of all fires – more than 900 on 15.6 thousand hectares – were caused by hostilities.
Donetsk region suffers daily from Russian shelling, as a result of which people die, infrastructure is damaged, and part of the region is occupied.
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The leadership of Russia denies that the Russian army during a full-scale war inflicts targeted strikes on the civilian infrastructure of the cities and villages of Ukraine, killing the civilian population and destroying hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy and water supply facilities.
The Ukrainian authorities and international organizations qualify these strikes as war crimes by the Russian Federation and emphasize that they are purposeful in nature.