Ukraine’s Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources has reported that the full-scale Russian invasion has resulted in nearly 6,500 instances of ecosystem destruction, with total damage estimated to exceed €65 billion. However, these fi…
Ukrhydroenergo, Ukraine’s state-owned enterprise that administers hydropower plants, has decided to cancel the tender for legal services in the arbitration dispute involving Russia’s destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant and will hold d…
Russia has carried out more than 140 missile strikes on hydroelectric power facilities belonging to Ukrhydroenergo, Ukraine’s hydroelectric power regulator, since the start of the full-scale war, in addition to the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelec…
More than two years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the flood of refugees into Poland has dwindled to a trickle. In response, all but one of the short-stay refugee shelters that had been operating in Przemyśl, a quiet Polish city next …
Russia is placing explosives at dams in its own Belgorod Oblast, possibly to stage provocations and accuse Ukraine of causing environmental damage, a spokesperson of Ukraine’s Kharkiv group of forces said on Sept. 19.Belgorod, lying only some 25 kilome…
Ukraine has offered to send its emergency service units to neighboring Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to help overcome the ongoing floods.Ukraine’s newly appointed Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on social media…
Russia dumped sewage into the Seim River from a sugar factory in the town of Tiotkino in Kursk Oblast, causing organic pollution, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Sept. 10 at a press conference attended by a Kyiv Independent reporter.The …
Editor’s Note: This is issue 145 of Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprises Weekly, covering events from Aug. 25-31, 2024. The Kyiv Independent is reposting it with permission.This newsletter was originally published before the news that state energy grid op…
Today, millions of Ukrainian children are starting another school year, either in Ukraine or abroad in the West. However, some remain under occupation, as more than 500 Ukrainian schools are still under Russian control.
Parents and teachers who resist …
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The Kyiv dam is not under threat of breaching following a recent Russian attack on Kyiv Obla…