Environmental damage in Ukraine caused by Russia’s invasion was estimated at around €36 billion, with millions of hectares of natural reserves under threat, Ukraine’s environment minister said on Monday. One-fifth of protected areas in Ukraine are at risk of destruction and about 2,000 cases of environmental damages have already been recorded, environment minister Ruslan Strilets said when showing slides to European Union lawmakers at a hearing in the EU Parliament in Strasbourg, France. According to estimates from the Ukrainian government, the bill for air pollution caused by the war in Ukrai…
