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page 1Environmental disasters in Ukraine

Chernobyl disaster
On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, exploded. With dozens of direct casualties and thousands of health complications stemming from the disaster, it is one of only two nuclear accidents rated at the maximum severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The response involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles. It remains the worst nuclear disaster and the most expensive disaster in history, with an estimated cost of US$700 billion.
destruction of the Kakhovka Dam
6 June 2023 event on the Dnieper River during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
2020 Chernobyl wildfires
Forest fires in Chernobyl zone
Kramatorsk nuclear poisoning incident
radiation accident in Kramatorsk, Ukrainian SSR
Sumykhimprom ammonia leak
2022 ammonia leak and contamination disaster
environmental impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
environmental consequences caused by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
1961 Kurenivka mudslide in Kiev
mass-casualty disaster in Kyiv
1995 Kharkiv drinking water disaster
water contamination event in Ukraine
2017 Kalynivka ammunition depot explosion
Sabotage incident