This publication contains complex analysis of the state of environment under conditions of the armed conflict in the eastern Ukraine. It also describes international legal obligations of the states concerning environment protection during the armed conflict as well as peculiarities of bringing to responsibility for the ecological damage caused. Based on the open sources examination and results of UHHRU’s field monitoring, the state of affairs has been defined as well as major problematic issues in connection to environment protection in the eastern Ukraine have been highlighted.

The group of authors consists of Alla Blaga, Igor Zagorodnyuk, Timur Korotkyy, Oleg Martynenko, Marina Medvedyeva, Viktor Parkhomenko. General Editor is Arkadiy Bushchenko. Field monitoring mission was coordinated by Oleksiy Bida.

The publication in English may be found here.