KYIV, Oct 4 – Experts from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) for the first time, based on the principle of Kakhovka HPP, calculated the losses of ecosystem services in Ukraine (all useful resources and benefits that a person can receive from nature), which, if their report is submitted, will help use the proposed principles and formula in perspective.

“In the first days after the hydroelectric plant was blown up, I had a conversation with Inger Andersen (United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNEP) and agreed to send a pilot mission to Ukraine to assess this act of ecocide. Next, a program of next steps to restore the environment should be developed,” said Minister of Environmental Protection and Resources Ruslan Strilets in an exclusive interview with the Interfax-Ukraine agency.