Belem (Brazil): Ukraine plans to seek nearly $44 billion from Russia for the damage linked to an increase in climate-warming emissions from the ongoing war, a government minister told Reuters.

The move marks the first time a country is claiming damages for such an increase in emissions, including from the fossil fuels, cement and steel used in fighting the war, and from the destruction of trees through resultant fires.

\"A lot of damage was caused to water, to land, to forests,\" said Pavlo Kartashov, the country's deputy minister for economy, environment, and agriculture.

\"We have huge amounts of additional CO2 emissions and greenhouse gases,\" Kartashov told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

A member of the Russian delegation at COP30 de

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