Residents of the city of Zuhres and the village of Zuyivka became victims of environmental terrorism. Once this place was called the Donetsk Switzerland. There was even a mountaineering base here. People came here on vacation. Now Zuyivka and the industrial town of Zuhres built nearby are being avoided at all costs. This is a place for memorials to environmental terrorism. Which continues even now, with the participation of the regional and national leadership. 3 years ago, an environmental experiment began in Zuhres. At the energy-mechanical plant, the Kyiv firm "Tekhnopark" began smelting ferrovanadium. According to local environmental activists, this substance is extremely toxic. There are several similar plants in the world. They are, as a rule, located as far as possible from populated areas. However, in the Donetsk region, people were not taken into account. Among the most active fighters against the environmental disaster is Volodymyr Vyhonny, the creator and director of the Zuyivka Landscape Park.

Volodymyr VYHONNY, director of the Zuyivka Landscape Reserve: - They are intensively preparing, because regardless of the protests of tens of thousands of people, we have signatures, they say – people don't interest us, money is the main thing for us.

The approval for testing on people was endorsed by the Donetsk Regional State Administration, whose then-head was the current Prime Minister of Ukraine, presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych. His surname is on the order.

Volodymyr VYHONNY, director of the Zuyivka Landscape Reserve: - This firm is supported by the Donetsk RSA, among others, although Viktor Fedorovych denies that he did not sign and knows nothing about this matter, I think that he knows, they all know, it was precisely his order.

According to the decision of the sanitary-epidemiological station and the environmental prosecutor's office, the harmful production was supposed to be stopped. But residents of Zuhres are certain that the smelting continues.

Zinaida, resident of Zuhres: - I opened the window at night somehow - and there was nothing to breathe. The air was terrible. They only smelt at night, they don't smelt during the day.

Viktor, resident of Zuhres: - I'm sick myself, I'm a Chernobyl survivor myself. If there's also this nasty stuff, then why live here... Even in the garden everything perishes. As soon as it floods – the leaves curl up and everything in the world falls off.

Despite the ban, industrial production of ferrovanadium is now being prepared. The authorities motivate their actions by increasing the number of jobs.

Ivan FILONENKO, deputy of the Zuhres City Council: - Our leadership emphasizes that there will be new jobs, about 300 jobs.

Anatoliy, resident of ZUHRES: - When you croak, then you won't need money anymore, or it'll all go on medicines...

Environmentalists of ZUHRES are certain that the harmful production is being lobbied by high-ranking officials from Kyiv.

Iryna VELYCHKO, Zuhres City Environmental Organization: - Yanukovych ordered it, and our people rushed to carry it out, but judging by how the local authorities are fighting for this, it's probably structures enjoying state support.

At the same time, they point to Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Klyuyev. The press service of the deputy prime minister told Channel 5 that Andriy Klyuyev is currently not commenting to the press. Meanwhile, in Zuhres, still young people are actually dying. In recent years, the population of the town has decreased by almost half. But no one is conducting research into the causes of the high mortality rate.