Seventy tons of spilled oil have been pumped out of the Southern Bug River.

In the Mykolaiv region, 70 tons of oil have already been pumped out of the Southern Bug River, which was contaminated due to the damage caused by a Russian drone to a reservoir of an agro-industrial enterprise on December 28. This was reported on Friday, December 3, by the mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Senkevych, on Facebook.   "Current information on the oil leak! On January 3, efforts to pump oil from the water area continued. More than 70 tons have already been pumped out," he wrote.   He added that the oil leak onto the adjacent territory has caused significant pollution of the water body and damage.     The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine clarified that, according to preliminary calculations, the estimated damage amounts to 45 billion hryvnias.   In Mykolaiv, as a result of shelling from Russia, there was a leak of sunflower oil into the Southern Bug River. This occurred after debris from a drone (UAV) damaged the reservoir of an agro-industrial enterprise.   This is not the first time that oil reservoirs in Mykolaiv have been damaged due to Russian shelling. In October 2022, Russian forces hit the tanks of one of the leading exporters of sunflower oil. Rivers of oil flowed down nearby streets.   It should be noted that the ecological crimes committed against Ukraine as a result of the war are estimated in trillions of hryvnias. The damage from fires, mined forests, and destroyed territories increases daily.   The environmental damage from the war exceeds $60 billion.