INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia has accused Kyiv of committing environmental crimes in the Ukrainian territories that its troops currently occupy, including soil
contamination caused by exploding artillery shells, the state-run TASS news agency reported.Moscow said it will begin collecting evidence of
Ukraine's "ecocidal violations" in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, which it claims to have annexed last September,
deputy head of Russia's Natural Resources Ministry Konstantin Tsyganov said at an environmental conference in Rostov-on-Don on
ecocide in this territory, but Russia will restore soils, forests, water bodies and improve the environmental situation in the Donetsk and
Luhansk People's Republics, as well as in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions," said Elena Zlenko, a former senator from Russia's
Kakhovka dam, which caused devastating floods and forced thousands to flee.But Kyiv says Russian troops blew up the Soviet-era dam on the
member of the Federation Council.
