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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1/ 🐾 UAnimals calls for a nationwide hunting ban during the war Together with other civil society activists, the Ukrainian animal welfare organization appealed to the Cabinet of Ministers and the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of #Ukraine. 🔗: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🪶 Wild Victims of War. Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) With this article, we begin a series on #wildlife that has fallen victim to Russia’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/wild-victims...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

1/ 🫣 Is environmental health receding into the background? New recovery assessments for #Ukraine reveal a concerning trend: after progress in 2023–2024, attention to nature is declining again. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/building-bac...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The Belgian media @lalibre.be spoke with UWEC co-founder Oleksiy Vasilyuk about seeking a balance between safe mine clearance, ecosystem protection, and future recovery of #Ukraine. We've translated this material for you. 🔗: uwecworkgroup.info/soil-and-wat...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

2/ Damage to the dam would lead to widespread flooding of populated areas and agricultural lands on the left bank of the #Oskil River. This is not the first time #Russia has attacked this dam: damage was recorded in 2022 and in December 2025.

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

1/💥 On April 14, Russian forces launched 6 strikes on the Pechenizky Dam in #Kharkiv region. The Pechenizky Reservoir supplies Kharkiv with water, and the dam is effectively a lifeline for evacuations from occupied territories. 🔗 About military risks of HPP: uwecworkgroup.info/hydroelectri...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

3/ 2025 set a record for damage—931 incidents caused by targeted attacks on industry and infrastructure. The war’s #environmental impacts will be felt for decades. 🔗 Read more in our review of the environmental consequences of the war in #Ukraine: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

2/ Environmentalists recorded 2,598 instances of #environmental destruction: burning forests, steppes, nuclear power plants, ports, gas stations, and oil depots. 237 incidents had a large-scale, long-term impact requiring ecosystem restoration.

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

1/ 💨 Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine has caused colossal damage to climate and nature. Over 4 years, CO2 emissions totaled 311M tons—nearly equivalent to France’s annual #emissions. Combat operations alone accounted for 114M tons, and fires for 70M. 🔗: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

4/ 😠 Against this backdrop, pressure on scientists continues within #Russia itself: in January 2026, researcher Alexei #Dudarev, who studied #Arctic pollution and its impact on human health, was arrested.

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

1/ 😡 In an occupied part of the #Zaporizhzhia region, #Russia announced the creation of the “Velykyi Luh” National Park, covering an area of 16,700 hectares. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

2/ The destruction of the #Kakhovka hydropower plant has only exacerbated the situation. Changes in maritime logistics, dredging of the #Danube riverbed, and the growth of fishing in the region are creating additional pressure.

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

1/ 🐬🦭 According to @ceobs.org experts, in 2022, the mortality rate of #BlackSea marine mammals—dolphins and porpoises—more than doubled. The cause: marine pollution (resulting from infrastructure damage) and the use of sonar. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

1/ 🤬 In the #Luhansk region, the Kreminski Forests National Park—the region’s only national park—has been virtually destroyed. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

1/ ☢️ #Zaporizhzhia NPP is being turned into a military base Satellite analysis by #Greenpeace #Ukraine has shown that the occupiers are building bunkers, trenches, hangar fortifications and anti-drone nets, while the cooling pond has been divided by a dam. 🔗 : uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

2/ At the Demine Ukraine Forum 2025, new approaches were discussed: #mine clearance methods consider environmental constraints and minimize damage to ecosystems.

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

1/ 🌬️ #War is making air in #Ukraine life-threatening. A new study has shown that following massive missile strikes, the concentration of toxic substances in the air instantly increases by 100–400%, and more locally—by up to 10,000%! 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/toxic-legacy...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

1/ 💧 The war has changed the role of nature in conflicts. In #Ukraine, water has become not only a resource but also an instrument of pressure. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/liquid-iron-...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

2/ What we do know: fiber-optic pollution is a new and understudied risk. Experts disagree on its impact on soils, but there are clear concerns about #microplastics and wildlife. Animals can become entangled in fiber “webs,” sometimes with fatal consequences.

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

1/ 🕸️ When the war ends, demining will be the top priority — not clearing fiber-optic cables left by #FPV #drones. For now, Ukrainian emergency services report no interference with mine clearance, but the question remains open. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/fiber-optic-...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

1/ ❓ How can a country be protected when the threats are not only military but also environmental? #Israel has long treated climate and the environment as part of its national security strategy. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

1/ After the strike on the port of #Pivdennyi, thousands of tons of sunflower oil spread 55 km along #Odesa’s coast, coating beaches and birds. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/russian-atta...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

2/ Ironically, military hydrologists long knew #swamps were powerful natural defenses. Military engineering manuals showed tanks sinking in peat, infantry exhausting themselves in marsh crossings.

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

1/ For decades, #wetlands in Ukrainian Polissia were drained in the name of “progress.” Soviet land-reclamation campaigns destroyed up to 1.2 million hectares of peatlands — straightening rivers, turning wetlands into fields. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/natures-tank...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

1/ 🍞 When people think of the #war in Ukraine, they picture tanks, missiles and drones. But a new academic study shows another battlefield: #food. 🔗 How food became a weapon in #Ukraine? Read more on the UWEC website: uwecworkgroup.info/how-food-bec...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

3/ Research by #CEOBS highlights long-term risks for wildlife, while #Greenpeace #Ukraine stresses that real impacts may take years to emerge. The battlefield is changing — and nature is becoming part of the experiment. 🔗: uwecworkgroup.info/fiber-optic-...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

2/ Experts say the cables can entangle birds and animals, persist in soil for decades, and eventually break down into micro- and nanoplastics that may affect soils and ecosystems.

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

1/ 🧵 White threads now blanket frontline fields in #Ukraine — traces left by fiber-optic FPV #drones. Scientists warn this new form of pollution is barely studied. 🔗 Read more on the UWEC website: uwecworkgroup.info/fiber-optic-...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

1/ 🌻 Vegetable #oil spills aren’t “harmless.” Studies show they can kill fish, plankton and bottom dwellers—not through toxicity, but by suffocation. 🔗 Learn how dangerous vegetable oil #spills are on the UWEC website: uwecworkgroup.info/russian-atta...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

2/ With the war in #Ukraine increasingly described as a “drone war,” this growing layer of synthetic fiber is becoming part of the landscape.

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

1/ A new battlefield technology is reshaping Ukraine’s environment: fiber-optic #drones. Thin optical cables unspool behind them, leaving dense webs on trees and in soil. The military advantages are clear but the ecological impact remains almost unstudied. 🔗: uwecworkgroup.info/fiber-optic-...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

1/ 🤡 Russian propaganda warned about “combat mosquitoes” made in #Ukraine Now, a Russian startup is implanting electrodes into pigeons’ brains to turn them into controllable “bio-drones” — produced with funding from state-linked elites I for Irony 🔗: uwecworkgroup.info/combat-mosqu...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

1/🌾 #War destroys not only cities but also soils, fields, and ecosystems. Up to a third of Ukraine's arable land has been affected by military action: craters, mines, sulfur, and heavy metals make some areas unsafe for agriculture for decades to come. 🔗: uwecworkgroup.info/how-warfare-...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

1/ 🧐 Scientists are concerned about the U.S. withdrawal from regional #environmental agreements, which may cease to exist altogether without U.S. participation 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/us-exit-from...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

1/ 👀 Is it possible to completely rebuild Ukrainian cities reduced to rubble by #Russia? History knows examples of post-war reconstruction, but the current scale of destruction in #Ukraine casts doubt on them. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/ukraines-rui...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

3/ 💬 “This territory that is taken, it’s almost 40% of all the agricultural land of #Ukraine,” says Oleksii Vasyliuk, a zoologist and member of @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Friendly reminder: in addition to reading on our website, you can subscribe to the UWEC email newsletter in PDF format! 📩 The latest issue, number 32, has already been published on our website: uwecworkgroup.info/issue-32/ 🪙 Support UWEC: uwecworkgroup.info/donate/

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

3/ As a result of a Feb 2025 drone attack set fire to its New Safe Confinement (NSC) — a structure to isolate radiation emissions covering the #nuclear plant's damaged power unit.

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

1/ ‼️ January 20, 2026: The #Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant has completely lost its external power supply as a result of large-scale military activity, according to the @iaeaorg.bsky.social

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

1/ 🫣 @abcnewsaustralia.bsky.social and other media outlets have reported that one reason for Leonid Pshenychnov’s arrest may be Russia’s desire to seize hydrocarbon deposits in the #Antarctic and #Arctic 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

1/ ❄️ “Antarctica’s first political prisoner”: #Russia arrests researcher, accusing him of treason and collaborating with #Ukraine Leonid #Pshenychnov is a Ukrainian scientist who has been researching #Antarctica for over 40 years. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

1/ 🤬 In December 2025 the #Russian government, seeking new sources of revenue to fuel its #war machine, opened the Shores of Lake #Baikal for development and proposed to place “projects of socio-economic importance” inside all protected areas of #Russia 🔗: transrivers.org/2025/4096/

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

1/ 🟡🔵 #Ukraine demands compensation from #Russia at #COP30 climate summit This demand was announced on November 18 at the COP summit in Brazil by Ukrainian Minister of Economy, Environment, and Agricultural Policy Pavel Kartashov. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

2/ 🐦‍⬛ Oil spills on the Black Sea coast were recorded in both #Russia and #Ukraine: #Crimea was affected from Kerch to Marino, including #EmeraldNetwork protected areas.

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

1/ 🏴‍☠️ Exactly one year ago, on December 15, 2024, two #tankers belonging to Russia's #shadowfleet broke apart during a storm and sank in the #Kerch Strait. They were carrying about 9,000 tons of #mazut oil destined for export to India. The consequences are here ↙️ uwecworkgroup.info/military-oil...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

1/ 🙏 Support UWEC with your donation! uwecworkgroup.info/donate/ Against the backdrop of other important news, the #environmental consequences of the Russian #war seem to be taking a back seat. Yes, our era has seen a multitude of crises, but #Ukraine must remain a priority topic in the media.

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

2/ UrsaMedia conducted an investigation that revealed the shadow trade in wild animals from #AskaniaNova — in particular, the sale of rare Chapman's zebras, for which the #occupiers are demanding a million rubles per animal.

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

1/ 🦓 #Russia is selling off rare animals living in Askania-Nova nature reserve in #Ukraine The Ukrainian #AskaniaNova administration is recording the damage and crimes committed by the occupiers, building a case for their future punishment. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/russia-selli...

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

2/ The films “No Shade in the Forest” and “Animals in War” were screened at the #Odesa International Film Festival. A pre-premiere screening of the film “Natural Border” took place at the House of Cinema in #Kyiv.

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UWEC Work Group @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

1/ 🎥 Nature through the lens: Three films about the environmental impacts of the #war in #Ukraine were released in October, 2025 🔗 For more details about each film, please refer to the UWEC article: uwecworkgroup.info/nature-throu...

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