{"id":16992,"date":"2024-01-25T17:33:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T17:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/2024\/01\/25\/heavy-metals-in-ukrainian-soils-in-the-combat-zone-exceed-the-norm-by-30-times-expert\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T15:21:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T15:21:38","slug":"heavy-metals-in-ukrainian-soils-in-the-combat-zone-exceed-the-norm-by-30-times-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/2024\/01\/25\/heavy-metals-in-ukrainian-soils-in-the-combat-zone-exceed-the-norm-by-30-times-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy metals in Ukrainian soils in the combat zone exceed the norm by 30 times &#8211; expert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the area of active hostilities, the levels of heavy metals exceed the standard 30 times, and mercury, zinc and other harmful substances &#8211; 10-18 times.<\/p>\n\n<p>Anatoliy Razgon, a consultant on land issues at the Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, told Ukrinform during a roundtable discussion on &#8220;Environmental Security of Ukraine: National and International Dimension.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_27086\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DWOQ-A3F5G8?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<p>&#8220;In combat areas, heavy metals sometimes exceed background levels by 30 times. These substances get into the soil, migrate to groundwater and eventually enter the food chain, affecting both animals and humans. That is, the soil poisoned by the explosions will slowly kill us in the long run,&#8221; Razgon noted.<\/p>\n\n<p>He emphasized that at the sites of shelling, soil scientists have noted a systematic 10-18 times higher level of mercury, zinc and cadmium, and high levels of copper, nickel, lead, phosphorus and barium, sulfur and sulfuric acid.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;Belgium and France faced similar problems a hundred years ago, when Europe lost 23 percent of its arable land after World War I, and are still overcoming these problems. It is still difficult to predict what reduction in arable land awaits Ukraine after the end of hostilities,&#8221; added the land consultant at the Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n<p>As reported, due to the full-scale invasion, more than 5 million hectares of arable land in Ukraine are currently not used, and the damage to Ukrainian soils is over UAH 900 billion.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Event<\/strong><strong>organizers<\/strong>: Institute of International Security, State Environmental Academy of Postgraduate Education and Management.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Participants:  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Oleksandr Krasnolutskyi<\/strong> is the First Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oleg Dunda<\/strong> is a member of the Ukrainian parliament;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oleh Uruskyi <\/strong>&#8211; Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine (2020-2021);  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Andriy Kasyanov <\/strong>is an advisor to the Department for the Prohibition of Biological and Chemical Weapons at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Yuriy Zabulonov <\/strong>is the Director of the Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mykhailo Yatsiuk <\/strong>is the director of the Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Volodymyr Prysyazhnyi <\/strong>is the head of the National Center for Spacecraft Control and Testing;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Yuriy Kohut <\/strong>is the director of the International Academy of Security Management;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Georgiy Balakan <\/strong>is a nuclear energy expert;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Serhiy Chernov <\/strong>is the President of the Congress of Self-Government of Ukraine;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anatoliy Razgon <\/strong>is a land consultant at the Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mykola Siryi <\/strong>is a senior researcher at the V.M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oleksiy Baganets<\/strong> is Deputy Chairman of the Ukrainian Union of Lawyers;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Yuriy Yarukhin <\/strong>is Vice President of the Military Intelligence Veterans Foundation, PhD in Military Science;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oleksandr Prytula<\/strong> is an associate professor at Zaporizhzhia National University and a member of the Supervisory Board of the Khortytsi National Reserve;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Victoria Zakharchuk <\/strong>is the President of the Institute of International Security;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Yuriy Andriychuk <\/strong>&#8211; Institute of International Security;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Konstantin Zagorodnyuk <\/strong>&#8211; Head of the Department. of the Department of Aquatic Ecosystems and Biological Resources of the State Environmental Administration;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Natalia Trofymenko <\/strong>is the director of the Aarhus Center;  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oksana Butrym<\/strong> is a member of the International Verification Expert Group under the UNFCCC Secretariat, Doctor of Economics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the area of active hostilities, the levels of heavy metals exceed the standard 30 times, and mercury, zinc and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_eb_data_table":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ukraine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/dall-e-2024-01-25-19.22.32-a-photorealistic-illustration-showing-the-consequences-of-warfare-on-heavy-metal-pollution-in-soils-in-ukraine.-the-image-integrates-a-war-torn-landsc.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16993,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16992\/revisions\/16993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}