Among the targets of the attack is the historic Assumption Cathedral within the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, which suffered a direct strike, officials reported.
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Russian territory at a rate no NATO alliance has managed.
The numbers:
→ 93,000+ hectares of Russian agricultural land currently infested
→ Spread growing at 10–15% per year — up to 20% in some regions
→ Central Russia, the Volga region, the Urals, and the northwest all affected
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Russia is losing a war against a weed.
While the Kremlin unveils new missile systems and claims global superpower status, Sosnovsky's hogweed — a toxic plant introduced across Soviet agriculture in the mid-20th century — is quietly conquering
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With substantial fines for non-compliance.
The state that spent decades planting and subsidising hogweed across Soviet collective farms has transferred the cleanup bill to its own citizens.
Several multi-story residential buildings were struck in the capital, officials said.
Kyiv monastery burns amid attacks
Russian missile and drone strikes hit Kyiv early Monday, setting fire to the Dormition Cathedral at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra and damaging other areas of the city. The attacks also struck other Ukrainian…
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But it can, apparently, fine a pensioner for not clearing his dacha of a Soviet agricultural experiment gone wrong.
Source: Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine @FISofUA04
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The plant causes severe chemical burns on skin contact and eliminates all native vegetation around it
Russia's solution: as of March 1, new land legislation forces individual landowners — farmers, dacha owners, private plot holders — to fight the hogweed themselves.
⚡️Update: At least 6 injured in Kyiv as Russia strikes residential buildings, historic Pechersk Lavra.
At least six people have been injured in Kyiv amid a large-scale Russian attack, as a fire continues to burn at the historic Dormition Cathedral in the Pechersk Lavra.
⚡️Update: 18 injured in Kyiv amid ongoing large-scale Russian attack.
At least 18 people have been injured in Kyiv as Russian missiles and drones continue to target Ukraine's capital in Moscow's latest large-scale attack.
The Kyiv Independent
"We ask for prayers for the salvation of the shrine from destruction. Another Russian crime against humanity, against history, against Christianity," Metropolitan Epiphanies, head of the Orthodox Chur...
"We ask for prayers for the salvation of the shrine from destruction. Another Russian crime against humanity, against history, against Christianity," Metropolitan Epiphanies, head of the Orthodox Chur...
