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Excerpt from this story from The Guardian:

Every spring for the past 30 years, conservationists at the Tuzly Lagoons national park on the Black Sea in Ukraine have been digging shallow channels from the coastal lagoons down to the shoreline, linking the bodies of water together.

The rivulets, which used to occur naturally until industrial agriculture plugged the small rivers that fed them, are a busy through-route for billions of small fish, which winter in the sea then return to the lagoons to breed.

This year, there will be no digging. The beaches are now littered with mines, laid by the Ukrainian army to ward off a Russian offensive. Researchers have had to abandon decades of work, and the consequences for the more than 5,000 herons that feed in the lagoons each spring could be disastrous.

“For 30 years, we organised scientists to do restoration in this area, to save this steppe and support this exchange of water. Now there is no entrance from the Black Sea, no migration of these fish, and the egrets need to eat them,” says Ivan Rusev, the park’s head of research. “It really is a tragedy.”

It is just one of innumerable environmental casualties in Ukraine, many of which will persist in a country already devastated by the human and economic toll of war for years after the conflict ends. With some of the most intense fighting occurring on the southern coast, experts warn that marine and wetland environments along the Black and Azov Seas face a particular threat.

Among them are 5 servicemen from Russia and three Wagnerians.

They are suspected of killing civilians, shelling and burning houses, capturing, torturing and keeping people in basements without food or water.

Several episodes in which they are involved: during the temporary occupation of the Kyiv region, the invaders broke into the house of the headman of the village of Motyzhin. The family was tortured trying to get information about the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Teroborona fighters.

Residents cut off mobile communications in Melitopol

A large convoy of Russian military equipment passed through the city in the direction of Kherson, which became one of the reasons for the blocking of communications, Zaporizhia OVA wrote. In Melitopol, the occupiers killed cellular communications, primarily, due to the redeployment of military equipment. This was announced on May 25 by Zaporizhia OVA. It was noted that the other day, a large…