Such an opinion was expressed by director of the Kyiv ecology-cultural center Volodymyr Boreiko. According to him, having lost over the previous 40 years a large part of forests, the Ukrainian Carpathian mountains came to be unable to keep moisture. 

Water swiftly runs down to valleys thus causing great ecological disasters, the expert notes. He also says that Ukraine's neighbouring countries Poland, Slovakia and Rumania have become aware of this threat and banned the industrial cutting down of forests in the Tatry and Carpathians.