The environmental cost of the war in Ukraine

Hotspots among the thousands of ecological crimes reported since Russia’s invasion

Nuclear sites

Industrial clusters

Oil depot fires and explosions

Ecological hotspots

River systems

Russia

Kyiv

Ukraine

Luhansk

Ladyzhyn

Zaporizhzhia

Donetsk

Romania

Kherson

200 km

200 miles

Nuclear sites

Industrial clusters

Oil depot fires and explosions

Ecological hotspots

River systems

Belarus

Russia

Chernobyl

Sievierodonetsk

Skloplastik plant

Irpin dam

Kyiv

Dnipro

River

Ukraine

Kharkiv

Oskil flood

Ladyzhyn thermal

power plant

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

Donetsk

oil depot

Moldova

Dnipro

wetlands

Mariupol

Luhansk

nature

reserve

Romania

Kherson

Odesa

refinery

Sea of Azov

Crimea

(annexed in 2014)

200 km

Black Sea

200 miles