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Experts, environmentalists, journalists, and activists who have come together to share information about the environmental impacts of the war in Ukraine.
7/ UWEC continues to monitor developments around #Chernobyl.
🔗 For more information on #Greenpeace's expedition, see the Oct-Nov 2025 Review of the war's #environmental consequences in #Ukraine:
uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...
🔗 For more information on #Greenpeace's expedition, see the Oct-Nov 2025 Review of the war's #environmental consequences in #Ukraine:
uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...
Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine—October-November 2025 – Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group
Alexej Ovchinnikov Each month, the UWEC editorial team shares highlights of recent media coverage and analysis of the Ukraine war’s environmental consequences with our readers. As always, we welcome r...
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January 21, 2026 at 6:43 PM
7/ UWEC continues to monitor developments around #Chernobyl.
🔗 For more information on #Greenpeace's expedition, see the Oct-Nov 2025 Review of the war's #environmental consequences in #Ukraine:
uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...
🔗 For more information on #Greenpeace's expedition, see the Oct-Nov 2025 Review of the war's #environmental consequences in #Ukraine:
uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...
6/ 💬 “Ukrainian nuclear facilities must cease to be targets in Russia's war. The international community must take action to protect them and hold #Russia accountable for its deliberate nuclear threats,” said Shaun Burnie, senior nuclear energy specialist at #Greenpeace #Ukraine
January 21, 2026 at 6:43 PM
6/ 💬 “Ukrainian nuclear facilities must cease to be targets in Russia's war. The international community must take action to protect them and hold #Russia accountable for its deliberate nuclear threats,” said Shaun Burnie, senior nuclear energy specialist at #Greenpeace #Ukraine
5/ In the fall of 2025, #Greenpeace #Ukraine organized its 3rd expedition to the #Chornobyl zone since 2022 to support Ukrainian scientists studying radioactive contamination and to assess the damage from the February attack.
January 21, 2026 at 6:42 PM
5/ In the fall of 2025, #Greenpeace #Ukraine organized its 3rd expedition to the #Chornobyl zone since 2022 to support Ukrainian scientists studying radioactive contamination and to assess the damage from the February attack.
4/ 🤷♂️ A Dec 5 @iaeaorg.bsky.social statement reported that the NSC “lost its main safety functions, including the ability to contain #radioactive substances.” At the same time, it was established that “the supporting structures and monitoring systems didn't suffer permanent damage”.
January 21, 2026 at 6:42 PM
4/ 🤷♂️ A Dec 5 @iaeaorg.bsky.social statement reported that the NSC “lost its main safety functions, including the ability to contain #radioactive substances.” At the same time, it was established that “the supporting structures and monitoring systems didn't suffer permanent damage”.
3/ As a result of a Feb 2025 drone attack set fire to its New Safe Confinement (NSC) — a structure to isolate radiation emissions covering the #nuclear plant's damaged power unit.
January 21, 2026 at 6:42 PM
3/ As a result of a Feb 2025 drone attack set fire to its New Safe Confinement (NSC) — a structure to isolate radiation emissions covering the #nuclear plant's damaged power unit.
2/ The #Chornobyl NPP and the surrounding radiation contamination zone were occupied at the very beginning of #Russia's full-scale invasion. In 2023, its territory was liberated by #Ukrainian troops, but the military impact on the radiation safety facility did not stop.
January 21, 2026 at 6:41 PM
2/ The #Chornobyl NPP and the surrounding radiation contamination zone were occupied at the very beginning of #Russia's full-scale invasion. In 2023, its territory was liberated by #Ukrainian troops, but the military impact on the radiation safety facility did not stop.
6/ 🔗 More details can be found in our regular review of the environmental consequences of the #war in #Ukraine for October-November 2025:
uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...
uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...
Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine—October-November 2025 – Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group
Alexej Ovchinnikov Each month, the UWEC editorial team shares highlights of recent media coverage and analysis of the Ukraine war’s environmental consequences with our readers. As always, we welcome r...
uwecworkgroup.info
January 15, 2026 at 10:45 AM
6/ 🔗 More details can be found in our regular review of the environmental consequences of the #war in #Ukraine for October-November 2025:
uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...
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5/ ❗️ With glaciers melting due to #climatechange, the Arctic Ocean is becoming more accessible and is now seen by #Russia as an “internal sea” to be used as a trade route and resource base. This can be not only seen to “strengthen” Russia but also poses a danger to all of humanity.
January 15, 2026 at 10:45 AM
5/ ❗️ With glaciers melting due to #climatechange, the Arctic Ocean is becoming more accessible and is now seen by #Russia as an “internal sea” to be used as a trade route and resource base. This can be not only seen to “strengthen” Russia but also poses a danger to all of humanity.
4/ In the north, #Russia also considers a significant part of the #Arctic as its territory and is seeking permission from the #UN (primarily from member states Canada and Denmark) to extend its “continental shelf” northward in order to gain exclusive rights to access resources.
January 15, 2026 at 10:44 AM
3/ 🤬 At the #CCAMLR conference in Hobart, #Russia and China blocked all proposals to preserve marine life in Antarctica, underscoring their desire to exploit #Antarctica.
January 15, 2026 at 10:44 AM
3/ 🤬 At the #CCAMLR conference in Hobart, #Russia and China blocked all proposals to preserve marine life in Antarctica, underscoring their desire to exploit #Antarctica.
2/ A document revealing the possible reasons for the arrest of Ukrainian scientist Leonid #Pshenychnov mentions that the creation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) proposed by #CCAMLR “will result in #Russia losing the opportunity to develop hydrocarbon resources on the #Antarctic continental shelf”
January 15, 2026 at 10:43 AM
2/ A document revealing the possible reasons for the arrest of Ukrainian scientist Leonid #Pshenychnov mentions that the creation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) proposed by #CCAMLR “will result in #Russia losing the opportunity to develop hydrocarbon resources on the #Antarctic continental shelf”
6/ 🔗 More details can be found in our regular review of the environmental consequences of the #war in #Ukraine for October-November 2025:
uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...
uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...
Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine—October-November 2025 – Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group
Alexej Ovchinnikov Each month, the UWEC editorial team shares highlights of recent media coverage and analysis of the Ukraine war’s environmental consequences with our readers. As always, we welcome r...
uwecworkgroup.info
January 12, 2026 at 12:37 PM
6/ 🔗 More details can be found in our regular review of the environmental consequences of the #war in #Ukraine for October-November 2025:
uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...
uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...
5/ ...and thus in opposition to Russia’s interests in developing industrial fishing and the hydrocarbon resource extraction on the #Arctic shelf.
❗️ By this logic any #environmental initiative could be seen as contrary to the interests of the Russian state.
❗️ By this logic any #environmental initiative could be seen as contrary to the interests of the Russian state.
January 12, 2026 at 12:37 PM
5/ ...and thus in opposition to Russia’s interests in developing industrial fishing and the hydrocarbon resource extraction on the #Arctic shelf.
❗️ By this logic any #environmental initiative could be seen as contrary to the interests of the Russian state.
❗️ By this logic any #environmental initiative could be seen as contrary to the interests of the Russian state.
4/ The scientist’s arrest is politically motivated, as confirmed by the charges brought by the Russian prosecutor’s office. In particular, they note that his activities in support of the creation of nature reserves in Antarctica “promoted the interests of the Anglo-Saxon bloc”...
January 12, 2026 at 12:37 PM
4/ The scientist’s arrest is politically motivated, as confirmed by the charges brought by the Russian prosecutor’s office. In particular, they note that his activities in support of the creation of nature reserves in Antarctica “promoted the interests of the Anglo-Saxon bloc”...
3/ 😡 The arrest was just before the start of a Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources #CCAMLR meeting where Leonid #Pshenychnov was not only supposed to represent #Ukraine but planned to participate in the discussion about nature conservation issues
January 12, 2026 at 12:36 PM
3/ 😡 The arrest was just before the start of a Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources #CCAMLR meeting where Leonid #Pshenychnov was not only supposed to represent #Ukraine but planned to participate in the discussion about nature conservation issues
2/ Leonid #Pshenychnov lived in #Crimea and did not leave after #Russia occupied the peninsula in 2014.
Like many other #Ukrainian citizens who decided to remain in the occupied territories, he was forced to obtain Russian citizenship.
Like many other #Ukrainian citizens who decided to remain in the occupied territories, he was forced to obtain Russian citizenship.
January 12, 2026 at 12:36 PM
2/ Leonid #Pshenychnov lived in #Crimea and did not leave after #Russia occupied the peninsula in 2014.
Like many other #Ukrainian citizens who decided to remain in the occupied territories, he was forced to obtain Russian citizenship.
Like many other #Ukrainian citizens who decided to remain in the occupied territories, he was forced to obtain Russian citizenship.
8/ Taken together those amendments signify the most dangerous weakening of the key laws governing nature conservation in the Russian Federation.
🔗 See more detailed analysis here:
www.transrivers.org/2025/4096/
🔗 See more detailed analysis here:
www.transrivers.org/2025/4096/
A major weakening of nature conservation laws in Russia
At the end of 2025, the Russian government and legislature undertook an unprecedented attempt to weaken key nature conservation laws.
After two years of intense debate, the 'Law on the Protection o...
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January 9, 2026 at 10:33 AM
8/ Taken together those amendments signify the most dangerous weakening of the key laws governing nature conservation in the Russian Federation.
🔗 See more detailed analysis here:
www.transrivers.org/2025/4096/
🔗 See more detailed analysis here:
www.transrivers.org/2025/4096/
7/ The placement of facilities of federal/regional significance should be approved by a specially created commissions, comprising legislators, representatives of the presidential administration and the agency for state security, similar to those approved in case of #Baikal
January 9, 2026 at 10:32 AM
7/ The placement of facilities of federal/regional significance should be approved by a specially created commissions, comprising legislators, representatives of the presidential administration and the agency for state security, similar to those approved in case of #Baikal
6/ ❗️ The bill introduces #corrupt practices for allocating land inside protected areas for construction or the extraction of resources, as well as for changing the boundaries of protected areas.
January 9, 2026 at 10:32 AM
6/ ❗️ The bill introduces #corrupt practices for allocating land inside protected areas for construction or the extraction of resources, as well as for changing the boundaries of protected areas.
4/ Decisions on the conversion of forested lands and logging will be made by a newly established 'Commission' consisting of officials, security officers, and law-makers, which is likely to include beneficiaries of such development.
January 9, 2026 at 10:32 AM
4/ Decisions on the conversion of forested lands and logging will be made by a newly established 'Commission' consisting of officials, security officers, and law-makers, which is likely to include beneficiaries of such development.