War-Related Environmental Disaster in Ukraine
Publisher: Bulletin-Atomic Scientists
Author(s): Kristina Hook and Richard “Drew” Marcantonio
Date: 2022
Topics: Extractive Resources, Land, Public Health, Weapons, Waste, and Pollution
Countries: Ukraine
Yevhen Yakovlev sat in his Kiev office, some 700 kilometers from Ukraine’s still-hot war with Russian-backed separatists, the room overcrowded by piles of paper containing primary data about the conflict. “Ukraine is standing before, first of all, an ecological catastrophe,” he said, “more deep and dangerous than Chernobyl.”