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Smoke from fires, tons of harmful emissions into the air, and land littered with debris and fire-suppression residues cost the region's ecosystem an astronomical sum. State inspectors carefully calculated the consequences of the attacks that occurred at the end of last month.
Fires in fields and tons of carbon dioxide into the air
The greatest harm to the air during the attacks on 22, 23, and 29 July was caused by large-scale fires. The most serious situation arose in Korosten district, where falling debris from an enemy drone ignited a huge grain field. The burned area exceeded 20 thousand square meters.
Not only was the grain consumed by the flames, but more than one and a half thousand tons of carbon dioxide were released into the atmosphere. Just from that episode, the damage to the air exceeded 10 million hryvnias. To put the scale in perspective: the total volume of harmful emissions from this and other July incidents in the Zhytomyr region can be compared to the annual operation of almost four hundred ordinary passenger cars. Another episode was recorded in Zhytomyr itself, where a drone strike also sparked a fire that cost the air nearly 900 thousand hryvnias in damage.
Million-level losses due to land contamination at an enterprise
However, the outright leader in total damage was the attack on the village of Khotynivka in Korosten district, which occurred on 29 July. The strike hit the grounds of a local enterprise, causing a fire on an area of about 300 square meters.
Although the damage from smoke and emissions to the air there amounted to just over 191 thousand hryvnias, the main blow fell on the land. Due to debris, destruction, and the consequences of burning, large-scale contamination of the enterprise's plots occurred. According to ecologists' calculations, the damage from this reached a staggering 454 million hryvnias. Overall, for the three July episodes the total environmental destruction in the Zhytomyr region exceeded 465 million.
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