Cut into firewood: the Armed Forces were cut down in Zaporizhzhya region 600-year-old oak (photo)

The tree was girth up to 6 meters, and about 40 meters high. Currently, only a stump remained from the oak, which the invaders "decorated" with decorative pebbles. Russian invaders cut down an ancient oak that grew in the village of patience of Melitopol district of Zaporizhzhya region. This was reported on Facebook by an officer of the 503rd Separate Battalion of the Marines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Elena Belozerskaya. The age of the tree, according to the military, is almost 600 years old.

Its girth is 6 meters and the height is 40 meters. "Another sacrifice of the invaders. Dub-Patriarch in the village of Patience of the Melitopol district of Zaporizhzhya region. Age of about 600 years. At the end of last year, the occupiers with local collaborators died it on firewood. They will answer," she wrote. Local media wrote about cutting trees in early January this year. "Only the stump remained from the old tree. Eyewitnesses claimed that Russian invaders cut oak into firewood.

The so-called "member of the Main Council of the Administration" of Zaporizhzhya region, Vladimir Rogov wrote in Teliegram about the fall of 700-year-old oak in Zaporozhye. "For a long time it was recognized by the Ministry of Environmental Protection by the main historic tree of Ukraine. Historical chronicles show that Bohdan Khmelnytsky's army collected his army here in 1648. The cat chieftain of Zaporizhzhya Sich Ivan Sirko with Cossacks wrote a letter to the Turkish Sultan under Dub," he said.