Ecological damage in Mykolaiv region due to full-scale war reached $2.3 billion

The amount of ecological damage in Mykolaiv region since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine amounted to more than $2.3 billion.

In total, the damage to the environment of Ukraine during the war amounted to $62.9 billion, with land resources and the atmosphere suffering the most.

The greatest damage was suffered by Donetsk ($17.7 billion), Luhansk ($13.3 billion) and Kharkiv ($11.6 billion) regions.

The ecology of Kherson ($5.8 billion) and Cherkasy ($3.5 billion) regions suffered somewhat less damage. Mykolaiv region was among the six regions with the greatest environmental damage.

Experts from the European Union’s APENA 3 project are working on climate strategies for three pilot regions of Ukraine: Mykolaiv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv. These regions were selected as pilot regions even before the full-scale Russian invasion. They are provided with international technical assistance to prepare regional strategies for adapting to climate change.

Back in May 2023, they presented interim results on assessing the vulnerability of economic sectors to climate change using the example of Mykolaiv region. At that time, it was said that changes in average annual temperatures in the region exceed global indicators. It turned out that this trend has been accelerating over the past 30 years with more frequent and intense thunderstorms, downpours and squalls. At the same time, they added, Russian aggression has further increased the risks of fires in the steppe and other parts of the region.