Members of the de-mining department of the Ukrainian Emergency Services survey an area of farmland and electric power lines for land mines and other unexploded ordnance for electricians to access power towers damaged by Russian strikes in order to repair them, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Korovii Yar, in the Eastern Donetsk region, Ukraine, March 20, 2023. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura
KYIV (Reuters) - The damage inflicted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine has included environmental costs such as contamination by land mines, and Kyiv should seek reparations from Moscow for this, a high-level working group said in a report published on Friday.
Land mines contaminate millions of hectares of Ukrainian soil, Russian troops allegedly disturbed radioactive dust near Chernobyl and the breach of the Kakhovka Dam last June, likely by Russia, flooded wide swathes of arable land and sensitive ecosystems.
