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Ukraine prepares war crimes case over environmental damage

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Mathias Bölinger
December 4, 2023

Ukraine is entering new legal territory. The country wants to see deliberate environmental destruction prosecuted as a war crime, and has built a groundbreaking ecocide case against Russia.

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