#Yampil

[thepastisalreadywritten]

By Brian Melley, AP News

13 January 2024

LONDON (AP) — An unlikely refugee from the war in Ukraine — a rare Asiatic black bear — arrived at his new home in Scotland on Friday and quickly took to a meal of cucumbers and watermelon.

The 12-year-old Yampil was named for a village in the Donetsk region where he was one of the few survivors found by Ukrainian troops in the remains of a bombed-out private zoo.

Yampil, who had previously been called Borya, was discovered by soldiers who recaptured the devastated city of Lyman during the Kharkiv counteroffensive in the fall of 2022, said Yegor Yakovlev of Save Wild, who was among the first of many people who led the bear to a new life.

The bear was found in a menagerie that had long been abandoned by its owners.

Almost all the other animals had died of hunger, thirst or were struck by bullets or shrapnel and some were eaten by Russian troops.

Yampil narrowly missed the same fate, suffering a concussion from a projectile that landed nearby.

“The bear miraculously survived,” said Yakovlev, also director of the White Rock Bear Shelter, where the bear recovered.

“Our fighters did not know what to do with him, so they started looking for rescue.”

What followed was an odyssey that your average bear rarely makes, as he was moved to Kyiv for veterinary care and rehab, then shipped to a zoo in Poland, then to an animal rescue in Belgium, where he spent the past seven months, before landing in the United Kingdom.

Brian Curran, owner of Five Sisters Zoo in West Calder, Scotland, said his heart broke when he learned of the plight of the threatened Asiatic black bear.

“He was in terrible condition; five more days and they wouldn’t have been able to save him,” Curran said. “We were just so amazed he was still alive and well.”

The bear was skinny but not malnourished when he was found, said Frederik Thoelen, a biologist at the Nature Help Center in Belgium.

He now is estimated to weigh a healthy 440 pounds (200 kilograms), Thoelen said.

The nature center in Belgium, which usually treats injured wildlife and returns them to their natural settings, has taken several animals rescued from the war in Ukraine, including a wolf, a caracal cat and four lions, though those animals had not experienced the ordeal Yampil endured.

It was remarkable how calm Yampil was when he arrived in Belgium, Thoelen said.

The bear was trained in the past two weeks to move from his enclosure to the crate that would transport him across Belgium to Calais, France, then across the English Channel on a ferry to Scotland.

Pastries from a local bakery were used for good measure to lure him Thursday into the cage, where he was sedated for the journey.

“We want to use the food that he likes most, and for most bears — and for people also — it’s sweet, unhealthy foods,” Thoelen said.

Thoelen had a sense of the bear’s weight as he drove the crate to the port.

“Every time when we had a red light or a traffic jam, when the bear moved a little bit, you could feel the van moving also,” he said.

“You could feel it was a heavy animal in the back of the car.”

Yampil arrived at the zoo about 15 miles (25 kilometers) west of Edinburgh and immediately made himself at home.

He feasted on cukes — said to be his favorite food — and melon, said Adam Welsh, who works at Five Sisters.

The Asiatic black bear is listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species as vulnerable to extinction in the wild, where it can be found in central and southern Asia, Russia, and Japan.

It’s known for the distinctive white crescent patch on its chest that gives it the nickname moon bear. It can live for up to 30 years in zoos.

It’s not clear if the bear will go into hibernation. The winter has been warmer than usual but colder days are on the horizon.

The zoo has other bears, but Yampil is the only Asian bear and unique in other ways.

“We’ve had circus bears, for example, that have been rescued,” Welsh said.

“We’ve had bears rescued from places like roadside restaurants where they’ve been used as kind of roadside attractions and been kept in subpar conditions. But this is the first time that we’ve worked with an animal that’s been rescued from a war zone.”

Scottish zoo welcomes black bear which survived war in Ukraine

13 January 2024

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#Asiatic black bear #Ukraine #Scotland #Yampil #Borya #Save Wild #White Rock Bear Shelter #Five Sisters Zoo #Nature Help Center #Belgium #Poland #International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species #moon bear #save animals #protect wildlife #threatened species #refugee bear #private zoo #Youtube

[rating-bears]

Bear news!!

This is Yampil, an Asiatic black bear from Ukraine! He very miraculously survived combat in the region, and was shipped off to a new home in Ireland!

He’s doing well now, and I’m glad he’s in a good home!!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5!!!! Bear news!

#bear blogging #bears #i love bears #bear #bear rating #asiatic black bear #moon bear #bear news

[ozenuk]

Можливо, ви вже бачили це відео, яке зробила Олена Гречанюк. Ним чомусь не зацікавилися іноземні медіа, а тим часом російська пропаганда панує в інформаційному просторі, зокрема у твітері. Тож я переклав цю історію багатьма мовами у субтитрах і хочу, щоб це подивилися і поширили якнайбільше людей, особливо за кордоном. Дякую за увагу.

У цього птаха більше людяності й емпатії, ніж у багатьох, хто називає себе людьми. В одному світі живуть цей лелека й ті, хто обстрілює балістикою поминальний обід. Не забудемо і не пробачимо.

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You may have already seen this video made by Olena Grechaniuk. For some reason, foreign media have not been interested in it, and meanwhile, Russian propaganda dominates the information space, including Twitter. So I have translated this story into many languages with subtitles and I want as many people as possible to watch and share it, especially abroad. Thank you for your attention.

#український тамблер #українське #україна #українською #український tumblr #український блог #український пост #укртамблер #укртумбочка #укртумба #ukraine #genocide of ukrainians #russian war on ukraine #slava ukraini #stand with ukraine #ukraine war #ukranian

[ralfmaximus]

This is Yampil zoo (not far from Lyman). While it was occupied, Russian soldiers ate the bison, deer, ostriches...Gosha the camel and the wolves died of starvation. Bones and corpses of animals are lying on the zoo's territory.

Ukraine liberated Lyman from the Russians in October 2022. I'm not linking directly because the video is disturbing. It can easily be found if one is so inclined.

#ukraine #russia

[marykk1990]

My next post in support of Ukraine is:

Next site, the Murafa (Мурафа) River. Its source is near the village of Zatoky in Vinnytsia Oblast, and it flows for about 102 miles before flowing into the Dnister River near the town of Yampil, also in Vinnytsia Oblast.

#StandWithUkraine

#СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦🌻

Here's another pic of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Olena Zelenska from happier times. I will continue to hope for a complete and total Ukrainian victory as soon as possible.

#ВсеБудеУкраїна

#СтоятиЗУкраїниою

#СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦🌻

(Thank you, Google Translate, for hashtag help.)

#Stand With Ukraine #Слава Україні 🇺🇦🌻

[skippyv20]

Yampil, an Asian black bear, has been rescued from Ukraine and given a new home at a zoo in West Lothian, Scotland.  Six months ago some Ukrainian soldiers found a group of bears who had been abandoned in the village of Yampil.  The other died but this one survived, and was named after the village.  He suffers from post traumatic stress and concussion after a shell exploded near his head.  The zoo authorities at Five Sisters Zoo in Scotland are fundraising to build him a special new home, and have already raised £20,000.  They hope he will feel settled in his new little house and will recover from his distress.

Credit, The Telegraph

Awwww…thank you!🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

#submission

[beardedmrbean]

One more time today we're going to visit WHITE ROCK bear shelter in Ukraine, where they have this to say about this splendid fellow.

Неймовірна новина! Ямпіль перший раз відчув траву під лапами. Ще тиждень тому він сидів під обстрілами в Донецькій області. А сьогодні вже скупався у басейні, погуляв по траві і вперше в житті побачив над собою небо. Incredible news! Yampil felt the grass under his paws for the first time. A week ago, he was sitting under shelling in the Donetsk region. And today I already swam in the pool, walked on the grass and saw the sky above for the first time in his life.

I can only read like 3 words in Cyrillic, one of them being bear, so I hope the magic internet device did a good job.

I also hope Yampil has a long and happy life being cared for there with the others.

#bears #moon bears #asian black bear #fat bear friday #any bear friday #ukrane #Donetsk

[mapsontheweb]

A map of the approximate situation on the ground in Ukraine as of 00:00 UTC 03/05/22.

by @War_Mapper

Updates:

🇺🇦 carried out an offensive in the direction of Staryi Slativ. The extent of territory recaptured isn’t yet clear.

🇷🇺 entered the outskirts of Lyman from the East. 🇷🇺 have taken control of Yampil’ and have continued south towards the Siverskyi Donets river.

#maps #tw #russo ukrainian war

[mariacallous]

During the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, forested tracts and strips between fields have become the only shelter available to soldiers trying to hide from reconnaissance drones. For that reason, Ukraine’s forests have become sites of particularly intense fighting and targets for seemingly endless missile and artillery strikes. Since October 2022, a separate “forest front” has existed to the north of the Siverskyi Donets River near the city of Kreminna. Large forces from both Russia and Ukraine have faced off there, bombing and shelling the forest with every available type of weapon, from mine-clearing vehicles to powerful aerial bombs. At the same time, the Russian army continues its long-standing practice of mining practically every strip of forest in the northern Zaporizhzhia and southern Donetsk regions.

A forest road in the Chernihiv region after heavy combat followed by Russian troops’ withdrawal, April 2022.

Marko Djurica / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA

Holy Mountains National Nature Park in the northern part of the Donetsk region. For several months in 2022, one of the war’s front lines ran through the forest along the Siverskyi Donets River, until Ukraine’s Armed Forces liberated the park in the fall. In March 2023, signs of last year’s fighting were still visible in those forests.

Ihor Tkachov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA

Forest in Kreminna, June 2023

Sasha Maslov for The Washington Post / Getty Images

A Ukrainian soldier in the Kreminna forest, June 2023. Traces of a fire are visible. Fighting has been ongoing in this forest since October and Russian troops have not been able to force Ukrainian units out of the area.

Anatolii Stepanov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA

A camouflaged D-30 howitzer fires at Russian positions near Kreminna. Forests gave soldiers on both sides much-needed cover from skies filled with reconnaissance and attack drones.

Libkos / AP / Scanpix / LETA

A burned section of the Kreminna forest near Yampil, November 2022. The village was captured by the Russian army in May and liberated by Ukraine in September.

Andriy Andriyenko / AP / Scanpix / LETA

A mined forest strip on the Izyum–Slovyansk road. Russian soldiers called this section the Sherwood Forest. They tried from April to September 2022 to capture it, but in the end were forced to withdraw. A large number of mines and unexploded ordnance remain in the forest.

Marek M. Berezowski / Anadolu Agency / ABACAPRESS / ddp images / Vida Press

Traces of combat in Holy Mountains National Park, October 2022, when Ukraine’s Armed Forces recaptured parts of the forest on the banks of the Siverskyi Donets.

Carl Court / Getty Images

A large, old tree serves as a makeshift roadblock in the Donbas, June 2022

Bernat Armangue / AP / Scanpix / LETA

Anti-tank mines in the forest near the Mokri Yaly River, not far from Velyka Novosilka, in southern Ukraine, summer 2023. On the eve of Ukraine’s offensive, Russian troops lined all the forested tracts and strips in the southern Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.

Diego Herrera Carcedo / Anadolu Agency / ABACAPRESS / ddp images / Vida Press

Burned out Russian equipment in a burned forest belt in the Kharkiv region after Ukraine’s successful fall 2022 offensive. Regional authorities are trying to clear the forests of scrap metal and are paying local residents to collect it.

Mykhaylo Palinchak / SOPA Images / Sipa USA / Vida Press

Pine trees damaged by artillery fire in a forest outside of Bucha, in the Kyiv region. Both sides in the conflict used artillery in combat near Ukraine’s capital from February to March 2022.

Pavlo Dorohoi

Fire-marked trees in the forest near Chornobyl, September 2022. At the beginning of the war, 14,000 hectares (34,600 acres) of forest burned during a month of fighting, at the beginning of the current war, in the exclusion zone created in the aftermath of the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Narciso Contreras / Anadolu Agency / ABACAPRESS / ddp images / Vida Press

The site of a forest fire, started during combat in spring 2022, near Chornobyl

Narciso Contreras / Anadolu Agency / ABACAPRESS / ddp images / Vida Press

Flooded trees on the Irpin River, near the village of Demydiv in the Kyiv region. Ukraine’s Armed Forces reportedly blew up a dam on the river in order to slow Russian troops’ advance on Ukraine’s capital. The Ukrainian authorities have blamed Russia for the flooding.

Nicolas Garcia / AFP / Scanpix / LETA

Flooded forest near the village of Demydiv after an explosion at a dam on the Irpin River, February 28, 2022

Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP / Scanpix / LETA

Rocket fragments in a burned forest strip on the outskirts of Mykolaiv, August 2022

Stanislav Kozliuk / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA

The tail end of an 85-millimeter mine, stuck in tree branches in a grove of trees in the Mykolaiv region.

Efrem Lukatsky / AP / Scanpix / LETA

Fighting in the swampy forests on islands in the Dnipro River did not stop even after flooding caused by the rupture of Kakhovka Hyropower Plant. This photo was taken near the Antonivka Bridge, where Ukrainian Armed Forces landed in June 2023.

Nicolas Cleuet / Le Pictorium Agency / ZUMA Press / Scanpix / LETA

Trees washed out during the flood after the rupture of the Kakhovka dam were carried to the Black Sea and washed ashore near Odesa

Art-Studio / Alamy / Vida Press

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Destroyed Russian BMP-2 near Yampil, Donetsk region, Ukraine, 2022. Source:  Naalsio

P.S. The defeated Russian orc armies want to restore the might of the Soviet regime and return to the past with all its consequences: mass repressions, marauding, poverty, huge numbers of victims, technological backwardness and propaganda lies. Ukraine is saved by the fact that the mentality of the Russians has really returned to the past of the Soviet regime and they are as stupid and evil as the communists of the collapsed Soviet Union...

#Ukraine #russian defeat #Donetsk #russian invasion #russian losses #collapse of the soviet union #BMP-2 #infantry fighting vehicle #russian armor

[ultrajaphunter]

According to preliminary information, Yampil of the Donetsk region was taken by the Armed Forces of Ukraine

[usalivemovienews]

Ukraine Bear Who Was Hurt, Neglected by Russia to Be Rehomed in UK Zoo ... https://dev-usalivenews.pantheonsite.io/ukraine-bear-who-was-hurt-neglected-by-russia-to-be-rehomed-in-uk-zoo/?feed_id=19476&_unique_id=65008365b7db7 #movie film movies

[cyberbenb]

Russian shelling kills 2, injures 3 in Donetsk Oblast

Two people were killed and three more wounded in artillery strikes against Avdiivka and Hostre in Donetsk Oblast, the Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor’s Office reported on July 10.

The village of Hostre in the Pokrovsk district was shelled around 2:40 p.m. local time, killing one resident, prosecutors wrote. Three more men, including a father and a son, were wounded during the attack, according to the report.

Russian forces shelled the city of Avdiivka around 3 p.m. local time and killed a 54-year-old man in his house. Private houses and commercial buildings were also damaged in the strike, the prosecutors added.

Earlier on July 10, Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported on one injured resident in Yampil, Donetsk Oblast.

4 killed, 20 injured in Russian attacks over past day

Russian attacks in three Ukrainian oblasts killed four civilians and wounded 20 more over the past 24 hours, according to the regional authorities.

The Kyiv IndependentDinara Khalilova

[news247worldpressposts]

#Breaking: #Russian forces kill 4 people, injure 11 in #Donetsk Oblast.

⚡️ Governor: Russian forces kill 4 people, injure 11 in Donetsk Oblast. Russian forces killed three people in Bakhmut and one person in Yampil on Feb. 4, Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported. — The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) February 5, 2023 Source: Twitter

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[24deltaideas]

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War in Ukraine | In liberated villages, residents say they are "abandoned"

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