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Kakhovka dam: Ukraine pioneers prosecution for ecocide

The scale of ecological disaster triggered on June 6 by the explosion of Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam, located on a Russian-occupied stretch of the Dnieper River, makes this an exemplary case for prosecuting environmental crimes. The Ukrainian prosecutor swiftly started a major investigation into war crimes and ecocide. This is one of 194 such investigations […]
By Franck Petit
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