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...

1/ ⛔️ Mine clearance in #Ukraine is not only about human safety but also the key to the country's recovery. Today, humanitarian #demining is integrated with economic, agricultural, and environmental protection. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/how-new-tech...

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...

1/ 🫣 Europe's transition from #Russian #gas to liquefied natural gas from other countries was intended to be a temporary measure. However, since 2022, 10 floating #LNG terminals have been built in #Europe and 7 existing ones have been expanded. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/lng-dependen...

1/ 🛡️ Environmental security is gradually being included in national defense policies. Countries that integrate environmental monitoring, satellite data and legal accountability mechanisms more rapidly gain a strategic advantage. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

1/ 🙏 Ukraine’s #wetlands are a story of both loss and hope. Its peatlands store centuries of carbon, support biodiversity and regulate water—but decades of drainage and reclamation have left many degraded. 🔗 For more details, visit the UWEC website: uwecworkgroup.info/natures-tank...

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-...

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-...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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-...

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...

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-...

1/ 👏 In February 2022, #wetlands helped save #Kyiv. When bridges over the #Irpin were blown up, water flooded the restored floodplain and stopped Russian armor in its tracks. The marshes of Polissia turned into a natural fortress. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/natures-tank...

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...

1/ Four years of full-scale war 4️⃣ The #environmental consequences of Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine are no longer local—they are global. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/four-years-o...

1/ 🤬 Russia’s strikes on Ukraine’s oil terminals are triggering a new kind of ecological catastrophe: massive sunflower oil spills. Thousands of tons have leaked into estuaries and rivers in #Odesa, #Mykolaiv and #Dnipro regions. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/russian-atta...

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-...

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...

1/ 🛡️ Imagine clean air, safe rivers and fertile fields – then imagine them poisoned by war. #Environmental security in #Ukraine is now a front line: toxic spills, fires, damaged dams and mines threaten health, food and cross-border ecosystems. 🔗: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

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...

1/ UWEC is back on @theguardian.com! theguardian.com/environment/... While the country’s eastern regions now under Russian occupation are primarily industrial areas, the southern expanse of #Crimea and #Kherson has historically been central to agriculture, botany and biodiversity. ⬇️

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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

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...

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...

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/

1/ 🟡🔵 The 2025 IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) World Conservation Congress was a real breakthrough for environmental organizations from #Ukraine. 🔗 Read more on the UWEC website: uwecworkgroup.info/ukraine-scor...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

1/ 🟡🔵 Environmental and climate activism in #Ukraine during the #war 🔗 uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta... Try to imagine living under constant shelling while working without the "right" to burnout because #environmental and #climate change issues haven't gone away 😟

1/ Environmental and climate activism in #Georgia during Russia's invasion of #Ukraine 🔗 Read the article to learn how #environmental activists from Ecovillage Georgia are seeking solutions amid the political crisis: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

1/‼️ On November 4, 2025, the international coalition Rogun Alert (including @ceebankwatch.bsky.social, @re-course.org & more NGOs) published a report on the unfair resettlement of people due to the construction of the #Rogun hydropower plant in #Tajikistan 🔗 Read more: rogun.exposed/pdf/2025_Res...

1/ ❤️‍🩹 UWEC Work Group needs your support to continue covering the #environmental consequences of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine 🔗 Thank you in advance for your #donation: uwecworkgroup.info/donate/

1/ 📗 The organization Environment People Law has published a book entitled “Kamianska Sich National Park: War Against Nature”. 🔗 Read more about it in our regular review series on the #environmental consequences of the #war in #Ukraine: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

1/ 🤔 Between #war and #nature conservation: Who wins when aggressor countries withdraw from #environmental agreements? 🔗 UWEC analyzes the consequences: uwecworkgroup.info/between-war-... 📷: #Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov assumes Arctic Council Chairmanship in 2021, Reykjavik, Iceland

1/ 🎉 Imports of Russian #LNG to #European markets will cease from 2027, thanks to the EU's 19th package of sanctions against #Russia. 🔗 More details can be found in the review of the #environmental consequences of the #war in #Ukraine: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

1/ 😎 Six of UWEC's stories are referencedin a new report by @greenpeace.org on #environmental prospects of #Russia after 2022. There are a dozen other articles with comments and interviews with UWEC experts: www.greenpeace.org/static/plane... ❗️ PLEASE DONATE! uwecworkgroup.info/donate/

🟡🔵 On September 9, 2025, @europarl.europa.eu approved the @ec.europa.eu's report on progress of #Ukraine towards #EU membership, but demanded that reforms in the field of #environmental protection be continued. 🔗 More details can be found here: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

1/ ✍️ On August 18, 2025, the #Ukrainian government presented its Priority Action Plan for 2025-26. How #environmental issues are reflected in it? 🔗 Read the regular Review of the environmental consequences of the #war in #Ukraine for August-September 2025: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

1/ 💚 UWEC is launching a series of articles on eco-activism in #Belarus, #Ukraine, and #Georgia during the #war in Ukraine. 🔗 In the first review, we discuss #Belarusian environmental organizations and initiatives: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

1/ 🦗 In recent months, there has been much media coverage of the mass invasion of #locusts in southern #Ukraine. Some even refer to these locusts as "Egyptian", drawing parallels with the Old Testament. 🔗 What factors created favorable conditions for it? uwecworkgroup.info/invaders-fro...

1/ 💔 #Russia expressed its political “resentment” at a resolution of the parties to the #Ramsar Convention condemning the Russian invasion of #Ukraine in a highly counterproductive manner. 🔗 UWEC has analyzed in detail the consequences of such a move: uwecworkgroup.info/the-ramsar-s...

1/ 🤡 On Sep.19, the Krasnodar Region Operational Headquarters and a government commission reported on the completion of work to collect settled #mazut from the bottom of the #BlackSea in the Anapa coastal zone. UWEC expert Evgeny Simonov explained why the problem is far from being solved: ⬇️⬇️

1/ 💨 The Office of the President of #Ukraine considers #wind farms to be a key area for the development of #renewable energy—the domestic potential for wind energy production is estimated at 100-150 GW What are the prospects for “green generation” during the #war? uwecworkgroup.info/prospect-for...