As many as 83.8 million people in Russia are living under levels of chemical pollution that pose a risk to their health.
That is according to Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service, Ukrinform reports.
Russia's Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) has published its 2025 report on the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the country's population.
"The document goes far beyond routine bureaucratic reporting. The figures it contains read like a diagnosis of a country that is systematically poisoning its own population and is not even trying to fix it," the Foreign Intelligence Service said.
According to the report, the overall chemical burden on Russians' health increased by 5.9% over the past year. A total of 83.8 million people – 57% of Russia's population – are now exposed to it. In other words, most of the country lives in conditions that the state itself recognizes as hazardous.
