2023-09-02 19:14:23
2023-09-03 03:14 Compiled by United Daily News Gao Yixuan/Comprehensive report A building damaged by shelling near the front line in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.european news agency
A Russo-Ukrainian war has brought countless disasters to Ukraine. In addition to the impending, chemically toxic and radioactive depleted uranium armor-piercing bombs, Ukraine is littered with unexploded landmines and cluster bombs. In addition, the Nova Kakovka Dam in Wunan was blown up and burst in June, causing local ecological catastrophe. The Russian-Ukrainian war, which has turned into a protracted war, is reducing Ukraine to a land unfit for living creatures.
The British Guardian previously reported that Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov described the country as the country with the most densely mines on the planet today. Ukrainian soldiers can dig five landmines per square meter in some frontline areas of the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield. Minefields span hundreds of kilometers.
Smith, the Ukrainian project manager of the mine-clearing non-governmental organization Halo Trust, said bluntly that even with 10,000 mine-clearing personnel, it would take ten years to clear the landmines in Ukraine.
In addition, the Novokkakovka dam in the Russian-occupied area was attacked in June, causing flooding in the Dnieper River basin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his adviser Sarivna said at the time that the dam explosion could have spilled as much as 450 metric tons of motor oil into the river.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba warned that the floods may cause long-term and irreversible damage to the region’s ecosystems, not just in Ukraine. “We are witnessing regional ecocide.” The Ukrainian military intelligence department has judged that the ecological disaster may affect the entire Black Sea region.
The U.S. announced in July that it had agreed to supply Uzbekistan with the controversial cluster bombs, which drew criticism from human rights organizations and groups, accusing the users of war crimes. More than 100 countries, including the UK, France and Germany, have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, banning or stockpiling this notorious weapon that attacks civilians indiscriminately.
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