Russians are planning to build six all-Russian landfills in the temporarily occupied Luhansk region, which will process rubbish from all over the Russian Federation.
Russia-occupied Luhansk region suffers from rubbish
According to the head of the region's military administration, Artem Lysohor, settlements have been suffering from rubbish for the past year and a half because no one removes or disposes of it.
Despite this, the occupiers are planning to build six more landfills there, which will process rabbish from all over Russia.
They promise to build six all-Russian landfills in the so-called 'LPR' (‘Luhansk People Republic‘ — ed.) in six years," he said.
The Ukrainian authorities stressed that the settlements of the occupied Luhansk region have been suffering from rubbish for the past year and a half, as no one has been removing it. The occupiers have allocated only 375 million rubles for the development of waste disposal projects.
Not for the elimination of natural landfills, but only for projects so far," emphasised Lysohor.
Russians are creating ecocide in the occupied territories of Ukraine
In August 2023, the cities of Luhansk Oblast region occupied in 2022 were drowning in rubbish, the Ukrainian authorities reported. Rubbish has not been removed from the region for months, turning settlements into landfills.
The occupiers said back then that containers and rubbish lorries could only be obtained from a single supplier — a Russian environmental operator. But the latter was not able to cope with the volume of orders.
In addition, the Russians have destroyed at least a third of the forest fund in the Luhansk region, as well as protected greenery areas.
According to Lysohor, the Luhansk region had a huge potential of the nature reserve fund - the total area of greenery was more than 95,000 hectares.
Today, it is very difficult to assess the damage done to the environment. However, thanks to remote sensing of land plots using satellite technology and other modern methods, the regional environmental inspection managed to establish data on the destruction of more than 26,000 hectares of the region's forest fund.
Lysohor said, the material damage caused by the fires alone is estimated at more than ₴ 180 billion.
