Template:Did you know nominations/Environmental impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

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

Environmental impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

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~~... that there have been severe environmental impacts of the invasion of Ukraine, such as fires in the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve that could be seen from space?~~

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

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

ALT1: ... that some severe environmental impacts of the invasion of Ukraine can be seen from space? Radzy0 (talk) 18:19, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
Comment Won't be reviewing, just wanted to point out that there's something wrong with the section excerpted from International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War – the last sentence is broken and seems to have ended up there by mistake. Note that this is an issue in the other article, but affecting the DYK due to the excerpt. --LordPeterII (talk) 19:39, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

@LordPeterII: Thank you. I fixed it. Thriley (talk) 17:07, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

New enough and long enough. QPQ present. @Thriley, MaitreyaVaruna, and Matthiaspaul: These notes, one of which requires action:

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)