Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine     National Park “Cheremosky”” is one of the largest “wild” capercaillies and many other representatives of wild fauna live in the forests And on the top of the Velyky Kamin mountain there is a the only one in Ukraine habitat of three species of flora – the “Red Book” Jacqueline’s skereda Slobozhansky National Park — a land of beavers You will be enchanted by every piece of the unique territory of about two hundred swamps and forest lakes It is here that you can observe beavers and their amazing construction: on all local reservoirs there are huts canals and trees with characteristic gnaws Drevlyansky Nature Reserve – this is a land of crystal clear rivers where wild boars roam the blueberry forests and hide among the pine trees a part of the great and ancient Drevlyansky region along the winding banks of the ancient Uzh Khorol Botanical Garden was established in 2009 with the aim of more effective use of the territory within the city of Khorol for scientific phyto-ameliorative and educational purposes The botanical garden has been operating since 2011 National Park “Kremenetsk Mountains” – a place where you can observe the flowering of 22 species of orchids and the unique insectivorous two-colored fat woman Where the plantations of lunaria reviving and bear onion fascinate the eye and the flowering of snowdrops with a continuous several-kilometer carpet will not leave any traveler indifferent This is home to 55 species of now rare animals listed in the Red Book of Ukraine Nature Reserve “Mykhailivska Tsilyna” — This is a pristine steppe that has never been touched by a plow for centuries That is why it gives an idea of ​​the biological diversity of the former steppe spaces of the Left-Bank Forest-Steppe of Ukraine The uniqueness of this protected area lies in the fact that the northernmost section of the meadow steppe which has been preserved only in this territory Pyryatynsky National Park — a real emerald of the Poltava region meadows and the winding bed of the Uday River Valuable wetlands occupy almost half of the park's territory European elk and the world-famous storks Hrytsko and Odarka Dzharylhatsky National Park — the largest uninhabited island in Ukraine one of the few places where the original unplowed steppe has been preserved decorated with hundreds of lakes and coastal salt marshes with medicinal mud outlined by snow-white beaches and fanned by a healing sea breeze The island itself is located between two bays of the Black Sea – Dzharylhatskaya and Karkinitskaya Here you can often meet flocks of dolphins accompanying ships Dvorichansky National Park — this park is special due to its chalk landscapes The chalk outcrops were formed from the shells of mollusks that lived on the bottom of the ancient sea 70 million years ago The chalk “whitens” the hills that stretch across the entire park and has a high ability to reflect light rolling its waves between the chalk slopes Dermano-Ostrozhsky National Park — the main part of the park is occupied by mighty forests colorful meadows and crystal clear water bodies The park is home to over 1000 plant species 52 of which are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine The grey crane and the white stork proudly walk along its banks and the grey partridge “grazes” its chicks They love to stand on their hind legs and look around tel.: +38 (044) 206 31 15Email: [email protected] tel.: +38 (044) 206 31 01Email: [email protected] Hotline “Ministry of Environment in touch” tel.: +38 (044) 206 33 02fax: +38 (044) 206 31 39Email:[email protected] Cabinet of Ministers of UkraineOffice of the President of Ukraine Home » Defence Today » The eyes of war Private Heath Matthews of the Royal Canadian Regiment awaits medical attention outside a forward aid station after two of his mates were killed during a nighttime raid on a Chinese position on June 22 A sergeant in the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit Tomelin was deployed to the Korean Peninsula for one year in 1951-52 He managed to wrangle another six months in-country during which he said he got some of his best images photograph of a bloodied and battered Private Heath Matthews of Charlie Company wounded by shrapnel and looking old beyond his 19 years was standing outside a medical tent awaiting attention after a company-strength raid the night before on an enemy position near Hill 166 the dominant feature on the Chinese side of the Nabu-ri Valley Canadian units suffered some 131 casualties in the area that May and June including two killed and several wounded during the Charlie Company raid “I noticed a soldier leaning up against the [sandbags outside the] hilltop regimental aid post,” Tomelin recalled in an interview for a unit history three years before he died in 2016 “I wanted to get a photograph of him earlier but I would have had to do it with a flash and I felt that wouldn’t reproduce the images as well as natural light so I kept an eye on this soldier as he moved in the lineup Known as “The Face of War,” it became Tomelin’s signature picture and an icon in the annals of Canadian photography “He was less injured than many of the others and he was getting close to the entrance It was getting to be around four o’clock in the morning and daylight and he happened to be at the back entrance to the regimental aid post and I realized that if I didn’t get it now I wouldn’t get it I raised my camera to take his photograph and he pushed himself away with disgust that he didn’t want his photograph taken He was going to leave so I raised both my hands and I said ‘Please just go back the way you were.’ It took no persuasion he dropped right back against the sandbags and asked ‘Where do you want me to look?’ I just raised my arms and more or less pointed over my left shoulder the direction in which he was looking generally and got him looking over my shoulder and I raised the camera again Known as “The Face of War,” it became Tomelin’s signature picture and an icon in the annals of Canadian photography U.S out of ammunition and in tears after losing all but two of his squad mates The pre-eminent lensman of the Korean War was David Douglas Duncan Marine photographer who went on to become one of the great conflict photojournalists He recorded two of Korea’s most compelling images The first was of Marine Corporal Leonard Hayworth The second Duncan photograph of note (there were many) stands with Tomelin’s among the war’s most compelling photographs—a dirty Marine huddled with his meagre rations against the cold of a winter near Chosin The hooded grunt is holding a can of frozen beans his 1,000-yard gaze emblematic of his unit’s December 1950 retreat after they had been cut off by Chinese forces at the Chosin Reservoir northeast of Pyongyang A Marine huddles with his meagre rations near Chosin in December 1950 what would you want for Christmas?’” Duncan recalled before his death in 2018 at age 102 Duncan’s Korean War photographs made up his 1951 book the proceeds of which went to widows and children of Marines killed in the conflict Duncan went on to photograph the Vietnam War where his work continued to make an impact picture of a young soldier looking up into the camera during the Battle of Con Thien is among Life Magazine’s most famous covers Life cover came to symbolize the youth of the Vietnam War The Don McCullin archive is packed with stunning photographs from dozens of conflicts shell-shocked soldier from the 5th Marine Battalion staring into the void during ferocious fighting at Hue in 1968 has become one of his most recognized Don McCullin’s image of a shell-shocked Marine at Hue in 1968 “And so I kind of dropped down on my knees and took five frames with my 35mm camera of this soldier and he never blinked an eye; his eyes were completely fixed on one place,” said McCullin “He was staring off into the horizon and every negative I took of this man is identical; I checked them all out thoroughly.” I feel slightly ashamed I didn’t go to check to see whether he was injured or still alive.” A 2018 investigation by The Australian’s Anthony Lloyd suggests that he survived Though Lloyd was never able to identify the young Marine said the shell-shocked soldier was taken away and never returned to his mates in Delta Company Marine Staff Sergeant Robert (Cajun Bob) Thoms said he heard the soldier had been sent to a psychiatric ward in a catatonic state “The personal medical records are not accessible,” Lloyd wrote I had walked through the valley of the shadow of Marines’ memories in search of him all the way from D.C from the Arizona sun to the snows of Michigan—and I lost him.” Don McCullin photographed disasters and war for 50 years A print of the photograph sold at auction for £20,000 (about C$35,000) in 2019 After years on war fronts and in disaster zones McCullin—now 85—shoots pastoral English landscapes near his home There was no shortage of impactful photographs during the Second World War some of them from parts of the six-year conflict largely unfamiliar to Canadians John Florea’s picture of a weeping German boy in Wehrmacht uniform appeared to show the desperation and hopelessness of Hitler’s last stand through the tear-filled eyes of a child soldier Hans-Georg Henke weeps after he was captured by American troops in 1945 Henke maintained throughout his life that he was based in Stettin with an 88mm gun battery He said advancing Soviet forces pushed the Germans back toward Rostock where he claimed his unit was overrun and he was taken prisoner Florea said the boy was not sobbing because his world had crumbled He said Henke was overcome by combat shock after his unit was overrun by American Henke joined the Communist Party and chose to live in East Germany Henke joined the Communist Party and went to live in East Germany after the war In a museum in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk hang two photographs side-by-side though you might never know they were the same man “This is the human face after four years of war.” On the left hangs a picture taken the day in June 1941 that Kobytev left for the Eastern Front after German forces launched Operation Barbarossa Hitler’s ill-considered invasion of the Soviet Union On the right hangs a portrait taken the day he returned in 1945 Russian Evgeny Stepanovich Kobytev before and after serving four years in the Red Army during the Second World War As one historical website put it: “This is the human face after four years of war The first picture looks at you; the second one looks through you.” The not-so-young artist (Kobytev is believed to have been 30) had just graduated with honours from the Kyiv Art Institute when he “volunteered” to defend the Motherland He painted portraits and panoramas of daily life His Red Army regiment was soon engaged in a fierce battle to protect the small town of Pripyat Kobytev was wounded in the leg and captured in September 1941 He was taken to the notorious Khorol concentration camp where 90,000 civilians and prisoners of war died and fought the rest of the war through Ukraine He was declared a Hero of the Soviet Union Some 26 million Soviets are estimated to have died during the Second World War Kobytev was elected to his city council and took charge of cultural activities in the region It is one of the primary motivations of many war photographers that their images will make a difference such as Joe Rosenthal’s “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,” have helped end wars through bond drives or like Eddie Adams’ “Saigon Street Execution,” inspired anti-war demonstrations Get the latest stories on military history veterans issues and Canadian Armed Forces delivered to your inbox An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing