Nature reserves under tank tracks: HUR details Russian destruction of Ukraine's environment

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That is according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR), Ukrinform reports. The HUR said that "the aggressor state of Russia is establishing so-called 'environmental protection institutions' in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson regions." "The operation of these pseudo-institutions is aimed at strengthening occupation control over the seized hectares of protected land and Ukraine's natural resources," the intelligence agency said. At the same time, it noted that "the Russian occupation army continues to destroy Ukrainian ecosystems and protected areas, turning them into zones of combat operations, military fortifications and catastrophic pollution.