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"Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said the ecological disaster triggered by the collapse
of the Nova Kakhovka dam has become a global problem as severely contaminated
waters flow into the Black Sea.
The Ukrainian president said the flood waters raging through the lower Dnipro
River valley brought with them sewage, oil, chemicals and possibly anthrax from
animal burial sites.
“At least two anthrax burial places are in the temporarily occupied
territories,” Zelenskiy said through an interpreter in an online discussion
with environmental activists. “What is happening to those sites we do not know
yet.”
Kyiv has accused Russian forces of blowing up the dam on Tuesday morning and
thereby committing ecocide. As well as the 100,000 people affected downstream,
Zelinskiy said 50,000 hectares (125,000 acres) of forests had been flooded, and
20,000 animals and 10,000 birds were “under threat of imminent death”.
“Altogether 2 million living beings are in danger,” Zelenskiy said, warning
that as the contaminated water spreads, so would the environmental devastation.
“The poisoning and contamination coming from the flooding area goes to the
groundwater almost immediately, poisoning rivers and then the water basin of
the Black Sea,” he said. “So it’s not happening somewhere else. It is all
interrelated in the world.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
