Ukraine: Toxins in Soil, Blasted Forests – Ukraine Counts Cost of Putin’s ‘Ecocide’

Aug 27, 2022 | Emma Graham-Harrison, Guardian
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The woods outside Chernihiv were quiet in late August when Anatoliy Pavelko scrambled into a 10-metre bomb crater with a trowel and an icebox full of sample jars. He wanted to find out what the Russian FAB-250 bomb left behind when it carved this gaping hole into the ground in the spring.