The DPR once again calls on Ukraine not to provoke an environmental disaster in the Donbass
Representatives of the DPR in Minsk once again proposed to the Ukrainian side to conduct joint inspections of hazardous industrial facilities throughout the Donbass in order to avoid an environmental disaster.
Victoria Talakina, press secretary for Denis Pushilin, the DPR's plenipotentiary representative at the Contact Group negotiations in Minsk, reported this on her Facebook page, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The report notes that the environmental situation in the Donbass republics is under the control of specialists who regularly monitor hazardous industrial facilities - soil, water, air samples are taken, and the level of flooding in mines is monitored. There are no threats of environmental disaster on the territory of the LDPR.
“However, our specialists are particularly concerned and concerned about a number of dangerous objects located in the territory temporarily controlled by Ukraine. The list of these objects and the threats they pose was repeatedly presented by LDPR negotiators at meetings in Minsk. An accident at any of these facilities will lead to a full-scale environmental disaster and a significant number of casualties among the civilian population on both sides of the contact line,” the statement said.
Talakina recalled that a roundtable discussion on "Environmental Risks Emanating from Facilities in Ukrainian-Government-Controlled Territories " was recently held in Luhansk to discuss potential threats at high-risk industrial facilities controlled by Kyiv. Experts expressed their willingness to monitor the environmental situation and provide an adequate assessment of their safety.
“Today, at the meeting of the Contact Group, the Republic once again made a proposal to conduct joint inspections of hazardous industrial facilities in order to timely identify and eliminate problematic issues,” the press secretary concluded.
The DPR once again calls on Ukraine not to provoke an environmental disaster in the Donbas.