The reserve is a habitat of many species listed in the Red Book of Ukraine, including the rare steppe mammal birch mouse. Its habitats were listed in the Berne Convention resolutions in 1979. Based on ...

On the Ukrainian steppe, where it is nearly impossible to hide from drone surveillance, windbreaks are fought over by Russian and Ukrainian troops. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

The Ukrainian counteroffensive faces an enemy nearly as daunting as the Russians: the terrain. ... Much of Ukraine is rolling steppe and forests, but the south is especially flat, ...

The steppe there has been destroyed, weeds will take over and erosion will follow," he explained. Therefore, restoration and reclamation are essential to revive the steppe, but this process is costly ...

Much of Ukraine’s steppe grasslands have been plowed up for agriculture. Before the onset of war this was the main threat to biodiversity, as only 3% of steppe landscapes remained in a natural ...

HULYAYPOLE, Ukraine -- "From the patriotic standpoint, we are not afraid, of course," said Serhiy Yarmak, the mayor of this town on the southern Ukrainian steppe, standing in front of what remains ...

Bakhmut rests in the gentle rolling hillocks of the Donbas, a countryside feature that is rare in the Ukrainian steppe.. During the past 10 months of Russia’s war on the country, the city has ...

On the Ukrainian steppe, where it is nearly impossible to hide from drone surveillance, windbreaks are fought over by Russian and Ukrainian troops.

PAVLIVKA, Ukraine — The summer winds carried the smell of burned grain across the southern Ukrainian steppe and away from the shards of three Russian cruise missiles that struck the unassuming ...

Vladimir Putin’s war is a steppe war. Since the Mongol’s Eurasian empire of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, steppe wars have consisted of little-constrained seesaw maneuvers where the ...