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- Bomb craters across Ukraine have filled with water, forming wildlife ponds.
- Soil scientist Anastasiia Splodytel warns that disrupted layers threaten soil fertility.
- Ecologist Bohdan Prots says 90 % of craters can be restored with soil despite unexploded devices.
- Researchers have identified over 600,000 bomb craters in Mykolaiv and Kherson.
- Ranger Luke Boyle says the 1945 V2 rocket crater at Walthamstow Marshes in east London now supports plants, insects, amphibians and cattle.