The war started by Russia destroyed two million hectares of forests in Ukraine in less than six months and caused an energy crisis, said Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, in his address to the participants of the 27th UN Conference on Climate Change.
“The Russian war destroyed 5 million acres of forests in Ukraine in less than six months! Not every country in the world has such an area of forests that were burned in Ukraine by Russian shelling,” Ukrinform agency cites Zelensky.
According to Zelensky, the war has caused an energy crisis that has forced dozens of countries to resume coal-fired power generation in order to lower energy prices for their people at least a little - to lower prices that are shockingly rising due to deliberate Russian actions. The Russian war brought an acute food crisis to the world, which hit worst those countries suffering from the existing manifestations of climate change – catastrophic droughts, large-scale floods.
UN climate change conference is held in Sharm El-Sheikh on November 6-8, 2022.
