Toxins in soil, blasted forests - Ukraine counts cost of Putin's 'ecocide'

Environmentalists are measuring the impact of Russian military's devastation and hope to force Moscow into making reparationsRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesThe woods outside Chernihiv were quiet in late August when Anatoliy Pavelko scrambled into a 10-metre bomb crater with a trowel and an icebox full of sample jars. He wanted to find out what the Russian FAB-250 bomb left behind when it carved this gaping hole into the ground in the spring.Four months earlier, the environmental lawyer was dug in on a frontline just a few kilometres away, shells crashing around him in the bitter fight to keep Russian forces out of Kyiv. Continue reading...