Herbarium List - The William & Lynda Steere Herbarium. Biology in Bomb Shelters – Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group. By Oleksii Vasyliuk Translation: Jennifer Castner A bomb struck the center of Kyiv on the morning of 10 October. For the first time the targets were not the Ukrainian capital’s infrastructure but rather its cultural heritage. Taras Shevchenko Park and the City Gardens park located on the sloping bank of the Dnipro River were attacked. Perhaps historians will recall this interpretation of that day’s events in the war’s chronicles. The two missiles that detonated in Shevchenko Park and a nearby intersection in the heart of Kyyiv simultaneously damaged a majority of Kyiv’s scientific facilities that are home to biologists and the majority of their research archives. Figure 1. Figure 2. No scientists were injured.
Two days later, the I.I. Biological sciences in Ukraine today That said, the biological sciences in Ukraine were already struggling. War’s impact on Ukraine’s scientific community The war has forced the largest movement of Ukraine’s population, both domestically and abroad. The M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany and the National Herbarium of Ukraine (KW), Kyiv: Damage due to the missile strikes on 10 October 2022 - Vol 79 Issue 5 Page 339 - Ukrainian Botanical Journal. Lviv: Open Herbarium Collection Search Parameters.