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A report by the UN environment agency (UNEP) produced at the end of 2002 provides insights into the destruction the war in Ukraine has inflicted on the country’s urban and rural landscapes.

Nargiz Shekinskaya from UN News spoke to Andrea Hinwood, UNEP’s Chief Scientist, and began by asking her how much this preliminary study can tell us about the true environmental cost of the conflict.


This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by UN News/ Nargiz Shekinskaya.

Citations

[1]https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/40746/environmental_impact_Ukraine_conflict.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y