Russia's military aggression damages not only Ukrainians, but also the country's natural resources and the environment. Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strelets told ArmyInform about how the environmental situation is monitored in the front-line and de-occupied territories, and where one can report crimes against the environment.

What is the EcoZagroza application for?.

He noted that a few months after the start of the large-scale invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, a web resource and a mobile application "

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“First of all, it was planned that this would be a tool for collecting information about Russian war crimes against the Ukrainian environment.. Each person can record such a crime and inform us through EcoZagroza, regardless of the place of residence. It could even be a soldier from the front line,” Sagittarius explained..

The minister stressed that the functionality of the application was subsequently expanded.

“We connected to it all the existing monitoring posts - background radiation, air and water quality. Now there is also a map of air alerts. EcoZagroza is part of EcoSystem, which we created earlier, a single nationwide platform through which we provide administrative services online and open environmental data,” he said..

Sagittarius explained that when the war is over, EcoZagroza will become EcoSystems again..

However, even after that, through the application it will be possible to report all detected violations of the surrounding legislation..

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How to report war crimes against the environment.

Ukrainians can report the facts of environmental crimes against the environment that they have witnessed. Eg:.

about the burning of military equipment;

fire in the forest;

spill of oil products or toxic substances into the ground or water;

release of toxic substances into the atmosphere.

The downloaded application "

Earlier we wrote that in order to document the crimes of Russia in the temporarily occupied territories (TTO) of the Luhansk region, the police launched a chat bot in Telegram.