A Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg visited Kiev to highlight the environmental harm resulting from the conflict in Ukraine and to criticize the international response to the massive hydropower Kakhovka dam’s collapse on June 6.
“I do not think that the world reaction to this ecocide was enough,” said Thunberg, who was in Kyiv for the inaugural meeting of a new environmental group that also includes senior European political figures.
“We have to talk louder about it, we have to raise awareness about what is going on,” she said, according to a Ukrainian translation of her comments.
The group is tasked with assessing the damage to Ukraine’s environment and developing mechanisms to hold Russia accountable, said Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian presidential staff and co-chair of the group along with former Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Margot Wallstrom.