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Kai Schöneberg

Russian attacks on Ukraine s Kharkiv Oblast KHARKIV OBLAST, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 17: Ukrainian rescuers of the State Emergency Service and firefighters continue to extinguish the forest fire after a Russian bomb explosion in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine on September 17, 2024. In Russia s four bomb attacks on Kharkiv, one of the bombs exploded in a forest near one of the city s settlements and caused a forest fire. In another attack that occurred while the Ukrainian State Emergency Service teams were trying to extinguish the forest fire, 4 rescuers were injured. While 2 of the 4 injured rescuers suffered traumatic amputation, three local residents who were around during the explosion were also injured. After the injured were taken to the hospital,

War in Ukraine: How it is damaging the climate

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine generated 75 million metric tons of CO₂ equivalents last year alone. War-induced landscape fires rose sharply once again. Ukraine now intends to seek compensation for the resulting social cost of carbon.

Von Kai Schöneberg