The full-scale Russian invasion threatens the environment in Ukraine, an industrial centre dating back to Soviet Union.
- Ukraine is home 15 nuclear reactors, as well as a variety chemical plants, mines, and other manufacturing facilities.
- Kristina hook, a professor at Kennesaw State University, said that military action in certain areas could lead to environmental catastrophe.
- In 1986, Ukraine was the victim of the worst nuclear accident in history at Chernobyl.
One night before the Russian invasion began, Narhiza Shkrobotkowas lived in Orikhiv. It is a small city located about 100 miles northwest Mariupol.As shells fell in the area,The journalist and activist saw through her window a flashing light.
She lived about 70 miles from Zaporizhzhia’s nuclear plant and feared the worst.