By KYIV. Nov 3 (Interfax-Ukraine) – On November 3, the Ukrainian Agri Council (UAC) public organization, with the support of the USAID Program for Agrarian and Rural Development (AGRO), launched an interactive map of the damages to the agricultural sector in Ukraine, created to show the real damage caused to the sector by Russian aggression.
As reported on the UAC website, the portal can help Ukrainian agricultural producers record the war crimes of the Russians committed against their enterprises, which have inflicted over $6 billion in direct losses since the start of the full-scale aggression.
According to the UAC, the interactive map posted on the resource agrirecovery.com.ua will become a reliable source of data for the world community, potential investors and government authorities of Ukraine.
During the presentation, Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy Danylo Hetmantsev said that the recovery of Ukraine’s agricultural sector after its victory over the Russian Federation should bring it to a higher level, while it is important to record it in detail to compensate for the damage.
"We must understand how and how much to recover damages from the aggressor, have a clear legal mechanism that will be acceptable for cases in international courts. So, we urgently need to record the damages to collect the necessary evidence to recover funds from the aggressor after our victory," Hetmantsev said.
According to the UAC, the interactive map is designed to document damage and crimes in the interests of the farmers themselves, since the information posted there will be seen by international organizations that make political decisions to support Ukraine. At the same time, it is important that private investment and charity foundations have access to this information, which will be able to find potential enterprises on an interactive map for further targeted assistance in their restoration.
The Vkursi Agro project became the technical developer of the map. The map is bilingual: information is presented in Ukrainian and English. The portal provides opportunities for searching and downloading data, photo materials of damages for each farm, displays information about damaged land plots, land reclamation facilities, crops, etc. A simple algorithm has also been developed for adding new objects. It is possible to use feedback.
