Ukraine natural resources in Ukraine include iron ore, coal, manganese, natural gas, oil, salt, sulphur, graphite, titanium, magnesium, kaolin, nickel, mercury, timber and an abundance of arable land. Despite this, the country faces a number of major environmental issues such as inadequate supplies of potable water; air- and water-pollution and deforestation, as well as radiation contamination in the north-east from the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Recycling toxic household waste is still in its infancy in Ukraine. From northwest to southeast the soils of Ukraine may be divided into three major aggregations: As much as two-thirds of the
Serbs in Ukraine Serbs in Ukraine There is a community of Serbs in Ukraine (; ), which includes Ukrainian citizens of ethnic Serb descent or Serbian-born people residing in the country. According to the 2001 census, there were 623 citizens in Ukraine that declared Serb ethnicity. It is estimated that the community numbers ca. 1,000 (2012). The 2001 census registered 623 citizens declaring Serb ethnicity (Національність: серби), out of whom 219 had Serbian citizenship, 104 Ukrainian, 218 Russian, 68 other. The Serbian Ministry of Diaspora estimated in 2007 that there was a Serbian diaspora community numbering ca. 15,000 people in Ukraine. This data