Yermak holds sixth meeting with foreign diplomats to discuss Ukrainian Peace Formula

Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's office, has held the sixth meeting with representatives of foreign diplomatic institutions to discuss the issue of environmental security as an important point in the Ukrainian Peace Formula.

He announced this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

"Environmental security is an important point of Volodymyr Zelensky's Peace Formula. Today, the team held the sixth meeting with representatives of foreign diplomatic institutions accredited in our country, and worked on this point," he said.

Yermak noted that the meeting took place in the botanical garden of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine.

"The number of participants is increasing - today there were already 63 diplomatic missions," he said.

He thanked diplomats from Albania, Cyprus, Malaysia, Moldova, Malta, Slovenia, Thailand and Vietnam who joined the discussion of the points of the Peace Formula for the first time.

In addition, Yermak said that the event had been attended by the co-chairman of the International Working Group on the Environmental Consequences of War, former Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom, Ukraine's First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy Yuliia Svyrydenko, Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strilets, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, and deputy heads of the Office of the President Ihor Zhovkva and Andrii Sybiha.

"We talked about countering ecocide, because Russia is at war with our state and the environment. Almost 2,500 cases of damage to the environment have already been recorded, and the Prosecutor General's Office is investigating almost 200 facts of environmental war crimes," Yermak said.

He said that as a result of Russian aggression, about 250,000 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory had been contaminated with mines and shells. According to him, "this is comparable to the territory of the United Kingdom."

Photo credit: Office of the President of Ukraine