I would say that its use is a provocation, rather than the intention to hurt Russian troops. You use the term environmental emergency zone. There are criteria devised by the State Committee of Environmental Protection. Environmental emergency entails consequences that are incompatible with the existence of all living things and their development. The notion of environment in its broad sense is everything connected to the life of people, social aspects included.
Military environment includes criteria of the situation at military installations.
We try out the ways and means of protection. The Armed Forces and the Ministry of Atomic Energy run major protection systems not unlike the environmental safety system, but this country does not have a single such system. There is a score of agencies that tackle separate tasks. Some of them are control bodies that do nothing to resolve the problem, e.g. the State Committee for Environmental Protection. Some are into monitoring, e.g. the State Committee of Meteorology.