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Russia’s war in the Ukraine has severe consequences not only for humans, it also has detrimental effects on populations of urban and semi-urban wildli....

Struggling to save trapped and injured bats, scientists endure Russian shelling and accusations of spreading bioweapons.

As the war in Ukraine rages on, zoologist Anton Vlashenko is leading a team working to rescue and shelter thousands of bats.

Struggling to save trapped and injured bats, scientists endure Russian shelling and accusations of spreading bioweapons.

Struggling to save trapped and injured bats, scientists endure Russian shelling and accusations of spreading bioweapons.

Struggling to save trapped and injured bats, scientists endure Russian shelling and accusations of spreading bioweapons.

Anton Vlaschenko often hears shelling outside his office in Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv, not far from the front lines of the war. He sometimes even sees smoke rising from Russian tanks hit by missiles.

Anton Vlaschenko often hears shelling outside his office in Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv, not far from the front lines of the war. He sometimes even sees smoke rising from Russian tanks hit by missiles.

Anton Vlaschenko often hears shelling outside his office in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, not far from the front lines of the war. He sometimes even sees smoke rising from Russian tanks hit by missiles. But the 40-year-old zoologist continues his work, dissecting and labeling bat tissue, as he probes the disease ecology of the…

"Our staying in Ukraine, our continuing to work — it’s some kind of resistance of Russian invasion."