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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 23:26, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

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Environmental impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

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Source: “ The Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, on the southern coast of Ukraine, is a haven for migrating birds. More than 120,000 birds spend the winter flitting about its shores, and a multicolored spectrum of rare species — the white-tailed eagle, red-breasted merganser and black-winged stilt, to name just a few — nest among its protected waters and wetlands.

The reserve is also home to the endangered sandy blind mole rat, the Black Sea bottlenose dolphin, rare flowers, countless mollusks, dozens of species of fish — and, in recent weeks, an invading military.

“Today the territory of the reserve is occupied by the Russian troops,” Oleksandr Krasnolutskyi, a deputy minister of environmental protection and natural resources in Ukraine, said in an email last month. “Currently there is no information on environmental losses.”

But military activity in the area sparked fires large enough to be seen from space, prompting concerns about the destruction of critical bird breeding habitats.”

The New York Times

Created by Thriley (talk), MaitreyaVaruna (talk), and Matthiaspaul (talk). Nominated by Thriley (talk) at 04:12, 20 April 2022 (UTC).

@LordPeterII: Thank you. I fixed it. Thriley (talk) 17:07, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
  • To assess the scale and unprecedented nature of these events, it should be mentioned that in 2015 there was a fire at the BRSM oil depot near Vasylkiv, which experts assessed as the second largest environmental disaster in Ukraine (after the Chernobyl accident). The event was called the "Vasylkivska tragedy". This needs a citation and is also causing issues as the only paragraph not to end in one. Is there an article on this at ukwiki we can have an interlanguage link to? Can we find the "second largest" quoted somewhere?
  • The article reads neutrally enough, in my opinion.
  • I prefer the ALT1 by Radzy0 as being snappier while using the same hook fact.
Ping me when you have a resolution to the Vasylkivska section. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 17:20, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Closed circuit: extra ping for Immanuelle who changed her username since this nomination started. The credit templates have also been updated to reflect this. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 17:22, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Thank you. I removed the sentences about the 2015 oil fire. I don’t think it is relevant to this article. I agree about ALT1, much hookier. Thriley (talk) 18:49, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
The article passes DYK with that removal. Approve ALT1. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 20:06, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
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