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Rada asks intl institutions to create mission to record environmental damage caused to Ukraine by Russian aggression
KYIV. Sept 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Verkhovna Rada asks international institutions to create a special environmental monitoring mission to record the environmental damage caused as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine.
Relevant resolution No. 7504 on the appeal of the Verkhovna Rada to the UN General Assembly, the UN Environment Program, the European Parliament, the European Commission, parliaments and governments of the member states of the UN General Assembly on the establishment of a special environmental monitoring mission to fix environmental damage caused as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine was supported by 321 parliamentarians at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada on Tuesday, parliamentarian Yaroslav Zhelezniak said on Telegram.
MPs ask to urgently create a special environmental monitoring body under the auspices of international organizations, ensure its work in Ukraine and check the environmental and related crimes committed by the Russian Federation already recorded by the Ukrainian authorities.
Ukrainian parliamentarians are asking for a UN mandate to be given to a special environmental monitoring body to carry out such actions.
The appeal notes that in order to record an environmental damage in Ukraine, on the basis of the State Environmental Inspectorate, an operational headquarters has been established to record, form a Unified register of such environmental crimes and calculate the damage caused.
"As of the date of this appeal, the operational headquarters has already entered more than 300 recorded cases of environmental damage into the Unified Register of Environmental Damage, more than UAH 5 billion of damage caused to the environment has been counted," the appeal says.
