In Dnipropetrovsk Volodymyr Honcharenko, environmentalist and Head of the NGO “For Citizens’ Right to a Safe Environment” has died in hospital following a brutal attack. Mr Honcharenko was driving to his dacha when another car deliberately blocked the road, and was then beaten by the men who got out. The attack came four days after a press conference on 27 July where Mr Honcharenko made public information about 180 tonnes of chemically contaminated and radioactive scrap metal in the Saksahansk District of Kryvy Rih. Volodymyr Honcharenko’s friends and colleagues are in no doubt that the attack was the direct result of his professional environmental and civic activity. They say that he had on a number of occasions received threats.