Zelenskyy meets Thunberg and others to address war’s effect on Ukraine’s ecology

Ms Thunberg said Russian forces “are deliberately targeting the environment and people’s livelihoods and homes. And therefore also destroying lives. Because this is after all a matter of people”

Greta Thunberg is part of a newly created working group (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and prominent European figures who are forming a working group to address ecological damage from the Russian invasion.

The meeting in the Ukrainian capital came as fighting continued around the country.