Finland to support Ukraine in mapping environmental damages

Minister of Climate and the Environment Kai Mykkänen, who visited Ukraine on Friday said Finland will support Ukraine in mapping environmental damages and in reconstruction, said an official press release.

“We are here to offer concrete support for the work on the Ukrainian energy system and clean transition and for repairing environmental damages. Finland will be active in helping Ukraine both during the war and in the post-war reconstruction,” said Mykkänen during his visit to Kyiv.

He said that together with Germany and Bulgaria, Finland has the lead in the point concerning environmental law in President Zelenskyy’s Peace Formula, which means that Finland will help Ukraine in mapping environmental damages in order to hold Russia to account for its actions.

Mykkänen visited Kyiv at the invitation of Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine Ruslan Strilets. During the visit, he also met Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine and Deputy Minister of Energy Svitlana Grynchuk.

In Kyiv, Minister Mykkänen stressed that Finland will support Ukraine in reforming its society.

While in Kyiv, Minister Mykkänen also visited a daycare centre renovated with funding from the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation NEFCO and a residential area damaged by a missile attack.