The explosion at the Kakhovka dam unleashed a massive flood, devastating the area and contributing to significant environmental damage, with urgent investigations into potential war crimes underway.
In the aftermath, over 600 metric tons of crude oil leaked from industrial areas, severely impacting local ecosystems and compounding the disastrous human toll of the dam's collapse.
Ukraine's Minister of Environmental Protection stated, 'The environment should no longer remain a silent victim of war. Destroying the environment is expensive and every state must understand this.'
Ukrainian authorities are gathering evidence to potentially charge Russia with environmental war crimes, aiming to bring the case before the International Criminal Court.
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