In Russia's southwestern Krasnodar Krai region, millions of locusts were destroying crops in the Primorsko-Akhtarsky district near the Black Sea, the tvp.info website reported on Wednesday.
It said local authorities were warning that the insects were attacking ever larger areas.
Petro Andriushchenko, an advisor to the mayor of Ukraine’s ruined seaside city of Mariupol, wrote on social media that the locusts had targeted a Russian city from whose airport warplanes were taking off every day to bomb Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, according to tvp.info.
“This is where the planes that dropped bombs on our Drama Theater and the maternity hospital took off," Andriushchenko said, as quoted by the Polish website.
He added: "So now this damned city is under attack by militant Ukrainian locusts. It's an invasion that they can't do anything about. Nature itself is taking revenge for what has been done to Mariupol."
Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko said last week that Russian forces had completely destroyed or damaged more than 1,350 apartment buildings and around 40 percent of private houses in the city.
He also said that his city would be reconstructed using the experience of Polish cities rebuilt after World War II, according to a report at the time by Polish state news agency PAP.
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Source: tvp.info