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‘Everything is dead’: Ukraine rushes to stem ecocide after river poisoning

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Ukrainian officials say Russians deliberately poisoned the Seym River , which flows into the Desna River .

Chemical waste from a sugar factory dumped in vast quantities into the river.

It included ammonia, magnesium and other poisonous nitrates.

Fish, molluscs and crayfish were asphyxiated as oxygen levels fell to near zero .

Emergency teams have used compressors to pump oxygen into the Desna , to give the remaining fish a better chance of survival.

Ukraine ’s minister for environmental protection said water consumption in Kyiv remained safe.

Svitlana Hrynchuk said this latest episode was part of a dismal pattern.

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73

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informal

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English

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35

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