The Russians set up a military base on the territory of a natural reserve near Mariupol

According to preliminary information, the Russian command has deployed a military base on the territory of the Kamiani Mohyly (Stone Barrows) reserve near the village of Nazarivka, Mariupol district (county), Novyny Donbasu reported citing the press office of the Mariupol City Council.

It is currently unknown what is the state of the protected area.

Kamiani Mohyly in 2017. Photo: Occupied.

The Kamiani Mohyly natural reserve is almost a hundred years old. It is the habitat of about two dozen species of plants and mosses which are unique or rare and atypical for Eastern Europe, as well as the habitat of dozens of animal species and hundreds of species of insects.