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Patrick Greenfield

Patrick Greenfield is a biodiversity and environment reporter for the Guardian and the Observer. Twitter @pgreenfielduk.

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Rescue workers extinguish a forest fire near a shopping center in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 17, 2024.

Wildfire has consumed vast chunks of Ukraine. Is Russia deliberately fueling the flames?

Editor's note: This story is a collaboration between the Kyiv Independent and the Guardian’s Age of extinction and Ukraine in depth reporting projects. Natalia Pryprosta was tending her pigs when fire swept into her village of Studenok, near the city of Izium in eastern Ukraine. There was no time. She grabbed her papers, pulled her elderly mother into a friend’s car, and tried to get the animals out of the shed before they drove off. Smoke and the speed of the blaze made it impossible. She did