Oleksii Vasyliuk, Eugene Simonov
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Fiber-Optic Drone Waste in Ukraine: Environmental Impact and Post-War Risks
After hostilities end, Ukraine will prioritize demining, not fiber-optic drone waste cleanup. So far, ordnance units report no confirmed interference from fiber-optic cables, leaving the demining impact unresolved. Scientific research on fiber-optic pollution is still at an early stage. Experts agree that long-term monitoring is essential to assess real environmental consequences. The main concern is…
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Fiber-Optic Drone Pollution in Ukraine: Environmental Risks and Scientific Uncertainty
FPV drones leave long fiber-optic threads across frontline fields, forming visible webs on soil and vegetation. Research on their environmental impact is just beginning, and long-term effects on soil, plants, and wildlife remain unclear. Fiber-optic cables are made mainly from PMMA plastic, which degrades into micro- and nanoplastics over time. Studies suggest these particles can…
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Fiber-Optic Drones in Ukraine: Military Advantage and Emerging Environmental Risks
Fiber-optic drones have recently appeared on the frontlines of Russia’s war against Ukraine. These UAVs deploy thin optical cables that remain in forests, fields, and soil, forming large debris networks with unknown ecological impacts. The war is often described as a “drone war,” with both sides using UAVs to strike targets remotely and reduce human…
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Fiber-optic web: How the use of drones on the frontlines impacts the environment
How Ukraine Can Integrate Environmental Security into National Defense Strategy
Ukraine can turn nature into a core pillar of national security through coordinated state and public action. Environmental risks must be integrated into national security strategies and treated on par with military threats. Creating joint teams within the National Security and Defense Council would enable rapid response to toxic spills, radiation, and ecological disasters. Citizens…
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Environmental Security in the Middle East: Lessons from Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon
Israel demonstrates how environmental security can be integrated into national defense and diplomacy. Climate risks are treated as threat multipliers affecting water, food, migration, and regional stability. Israel’s National Adaptation Plan embeds climate risks into defense assessments and allocates major funding to monitoring and sustainable infrastructure. Advanced environmental monitoring uses satellites, sensors, and mobile technologies…
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Occupied Agricultural Lands and Biodiversity at Risk in Ukraine
While the country’s eastern regions now under Russian occupation are primarily industrial areas, the southern expanse of Crimea and Kherson has historically been central to agriculture, botany and biodiversity. Although Ukraine covers less than 6% of Europe’s landmass, it is home to about 35% of the continent’s biodiversity. Many of the country’s rare and endemic…
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Environmental Security in Ukraine: War, Ecocide, and Recovery
Environmental security links clean air, safe water, fertile soil, and public health to national survival. Ukrainian law defines it as preventing environmental deterioration and hazards to human health through state, business, and citizen action. Russia’s full-scale invasion dramatically expanded environmental threats: explosions, fires, mined fields, dam sabotage, and diverse pollution types now endanger ecosystems, food…
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