Una scivolata, una signora a terra, un’oca con le ali spalancate. Bastano pochi secondi a Fiume Veneto (Pordenone) per far scattare l’allarme degli animalisti, che temono per la sorte dell’oca Gastone, il palmipede diventato da anni la mascotte del centro. Lo riporta Il Gazzettino.

Qualche giorno fa la donna si è imbattuta nell’animale mentre cercava cibo lungo la sponda del fiume. Gastone ha aperto le ali, come fanno abitualmente gli acquatici. Un gesto che la signora avrebbe letto come una minaccia. Nessun contatto, nessun beccata: la paura, però, le ha fatto perdere l’equilibrio ed è finita per terra.

Un episodio senza conseguenze gravi, ma sufficiente a mettere in allerta la Lav di Pordenone. Il timore è che si ripeta lo schema già visto con la cornacchia di Pordenone, finita nel mirino e a rischio abbattimento.

Gastone, del resto, in paese è un habitué. Da anni risale la sponda del fiume per farsi rifocillare dai passanti e dai commercianti della zona, che non gli hanno mai fatto mancare il pasto. Tanto da diventare una presenza familiare per l’intera comunità.

L'articolo L’oca Gastone spalanca le ali e la signora scivola per terra: il paese si divide nel dibattito. La Lav interviene: “Comportamenti naturali, senza alcuna connotazione aggressiva” proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

A Russian missile attack on Kyiv overnight on 7 October destroyed warehouse premises in the Podil district and badly damaged a book warehouse of Ukrainian publishing house Knyholav, the publisher said. Tens of thousands of books were lost, but no staff were hurt. It was the second time this year that Russia has destroyed Knyholav's stock.

Russia has destroyed Ukrainian books since the start of its invasion, seizing them from libraries in occupied areas and burning them in boiler houses. Since spring, it has also been aiming missiles and drones at the industry that makes them—printing houses, publishers' warehouses, and bookshops—destroying books by the millions. Each strike takes out not only stock but the reprints, new titles, and textbooks Ukrainian readers were waiting for, at a time when publishing in Ukrainian is part of how the country holds onto its identity.

Tens of thousands of books lost

The publisher can't yet say how many books were destroyed or can no longer be saved, it said, but tens of thousands were lost. The final count will be possible only once staff get full access to the warehouse and check the state of every book.

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The losses include new titles Knyholav received over the past two months. They also include reprints of books Russia had destroyed in July at its previous warehouse. Knyholav had moved its rebuilt stock to this new warehouse after a Russian strike on 19 July destroyed its previous one outside Kyiv, along with about 250,000 books.

"This is a tangible blow for us. These are books we created, printed, and prepared for you," the publisher wrote. "But despite everything, we are holding on!"

The strike hit Kyiv's Podilskyi district, where a Russian attack caused a fire and the partial collapse of the floors of an office and warehouse building, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. The same overnight attack killed people in Pryluky, Kyiv, Kremenchuk, and Oleksandriia.

Millions of books burned

Russia's attacks destroyed more than 1.5 million books in July alone, Culture Minister Tetiana Berezhna said. On 1 August, a strike on the logistics center of publisher Ranok and the distribution center of the KnyhoLand bookshop chain in Kharkiv destroyed 8 million books, including 628,000 new school textbooks. Over three months, Russia burned about 13 million Ukrainian books, nearly a third of everything the country printed in 2025. In August, Russian missiles also hit Kyiv's largest book market.