Ukraine calls on the UN to conduct an environmental damage assessment in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Serhiy Kyslytsia stated that Donbas, which is not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities, has become a potential source of man-made and environmental disaster, and therefore an environmental damage assessment should be carried out there.
Source: Kyslytsia during a meeting of the UN General Assembly on the situation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, quoted by "Novosti Donbassa"
Details: He said that in 2018, the "DPR" group stopped pumping water from the "Yunkom" mine in the city of Bunge, where the Soviet government carried out a nuclear explosion. As a result, radiation is already polluting surface and groundwater.
Kyslytsia's direct speech: "We call on the UN to conduct an environmental damage assessment in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions."
Background:
- In the spring of 2018, it became known that militants ordered to disconnect equipment in the radioactive "Yunkom" mine in Bunge (formerly Yunokomunarivsk).
- The US called on Russia and its militants to act responsibly.
- At that time, the head of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine Ostap Semerak stated that the possible flooding of the "Yunkom" mine in Donbas by militants poses a serious threat to environmental safety - threatens poisoning of drinking water - not only for Ukraine, but also for neighboring countries.
- Vice Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikovstated that a number of government-uncontrolled areas in eastern Ukraine are threatened by an environmental catastrophe.
- The head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG Leonid Kravchuk said during a meeting of the UN Security Council that the occupation authorities in Donbas are not pumping water from the radioactive cavity formed after the nuclear explosion on the territory of the "Yunkom" mine, and radiation has entered drinking water horizons.
- Kravchuk demands that Russia allow the International Atomic Energy Agency into the occupied territories – they do not react in any way.