On April 28, 2022, a methodological seminar was held at the Faculty of Law mentors and heads of academic groups on the topic «Environmental component in the life of value orientation of young people in martial law».
The event was attended by: Dean Iryna Sopilko; Associate Professor of the Academy of Advocacy Of Ukraine Olena Kovtun; Deputy Dean for Educational and Organizational Work Nina Trotsyuk; senior mentor Olena Makeyeva; mentors and group elders.
«For more than two months now, Ukraine has been on fire, under constant enemy fire, and hundreds of thousands of lives were cut off or broken. The Russian aggressors not only destroyed human lives, but also destroy the environment, the consequences of which are Ukrainian men and women will feel for more than one year. Crimes against the environment are also part of the military crimes. More than two hundred crimes against the environment have been recorded as a result of Russian aggression for a period of large-scale war, which brings new environmental risks, which can also increase the number of human victims of the war in the future», said the dean, opening the seminar.
During the methodological seminar, the issues of the negative impact of military operations on the ecological state of our planet, the legal aspects of the implementation of the conditions the Kyoto Protocol in Ukraine, the formation of a modern worldview of young people to counteract environmental disasters, topical issues of environmental education of students, formation of ecological competence of the individual and others.
In the process of discussing the speeches, the negative consequences of the war in Ukraine were identified. «With the first days, shelling and bombing of industrial and energy objects, arson of forests, explosions of oil depots, pollution of the Black and Azov seas (primarily due to the flooding of ships). Any war carries huge environmental threats for the population, but hostilities in Ukraine could lead to particularly catastrophic environmental impact. Nuclear weapons are now in the zone of active hostilities stations, seaports, hazardous waste storage facilities (mineral fertilizers, polyurethane foam, paints and varnishes and fuels and lubricants, etc.), industry, including chemical and metalworking factories. Fires were recorded at oil depots, gas stations, landfills, there are facts of damage to heat and water supply facilities (sewage pumping stations, filtration stations, water pipes). And most of all environmental crimes were recorded in Kyiv, Kharkov and Nikolaev regions, where the enemy destroyed industrial and energy facilities», Elena Kovtun noted.
Summing up the results of the methodological seminar, the participants outlined the main directions of environmental education of students and the formation of their environmental competence. It is noted that a real assessment can be made only after the end of active hostilities, and the citizens of Ukraine will feel the consequences for years. Therefore, it is now important for everyone to record crimes against the environment in order to continue to be able to to judge the aggressor country and for them.