Zarina Zabrisky

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Zarina Zabrisky is an award-winning American author of five books published internationally, including the novel “We, Monsters” and three short story collections, and journalist. She is a regular contributor to Byline Times, and contributed to Indivisible Movement, Crossing Genres, Digital Left, and elsewhere. Follow her on twitter.

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Interview

UN traces Kherson’s “human safari” up the chain of command — to Putin himself

Erik Møse, Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, which has declared Russia’s drone terror a crime against humanity, explains how investigators traced a direct chain of command—from drone operators on the Dnipro’s left bank to the Kremlin itself.

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Dispatch

Highway of fire: Russian drones turn Kherson’s lifeline road into a death trap

Russia's drone siege turns every car ride into a death lottery.

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Dispatch

“Every object is a maybe.” Russia’s cheapest traps are killing Ukraine’s scarce bomb experts

“Could be any of this,” the sapper said, pointing to my phone and a Sprite can. In Kherson, he lost his foot finding out.

Ukrainian hipsters make drones drone warfare

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Dispatch

Inside the secret workshops where Ukraine’s hipster engineers build killer drones

They look like they should be fixing your Wi-Fi or brewing oat milk lattes—but inside a bunker near the frontline, they’re building $300 drones that are outsmarting Russian tanks and rewriting the rules of modern war.

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Dispatch

The UN confirmed what I saw in Kherson: Russia is hunting civilians for sport

What I witnessed wasn't random violence—it was systematic hunting.

Russia attacks Ukrainian civilians Kherson

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Dispatch

“First they shell, then they hunt”: Russia’s savage new civilian terror strategy debuts in Kherson

Ambulances, first responders, and civilians became prey in Russia's calculated new warfare technique that turned Kherson into a killing zone on Thursday.

Ukrainian firefighters Kherson Russian drones

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Dispatch

Kherson under brutal assault as Russia plans a new offensive

Living in Kherson means counting time between explosions. As Russia intensifies its bombardment of this strategic river city, artillery barrages and drone strikes mask preparations for a major new offensive.

Kherson Oblast Dnipro Dnieper demining water river

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Dispatch

Ukraine deploys demining drones to break Russia’s Dnipro wall

With no formal training and limited resources, Ukraine's innovative drone operators are clearing the mined river, their DIY tactics becoming the linchpin in the battle for the Dnipro

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Latest news Ukraine

Russian drones now drop anti-personnel landmines on civilians in Kherson

Russia's drone hunt for civilians in Kherson has intensified: now, the remaining residents of the city can have their legs blown off on a Lepestok

Russian drones target civilians in Kherson

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Dispatch

Russian drones hunt civilians, terrorize Kherson with “human safari”

Drone attacks are scarier than shelling: they give no time to run for cover, say residents of a city that Russia pummels incessantly since its liberation two years ago

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Culture of Ukraine

Can Ukraine cancel Russia’s imperial history? Odesa debates decolonization

"Awareness and treatment of imperial trauma are paramount in this time-consuming and difficult psychological process," Tetiana Pylypchuk, director of the Kharkiv Literary Museum, told a rapt audience in Odesa, capturing the central dilemma of Ukraine's decolonization debate.

Vovchansk Kharkiv offensive Ukraine tank

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Dispatch

Fifty-year-old howitzers crack under strain in Ukraine’s Kharkiv defense

Recycled shells, ammo from allies, and drone detectors keep Ukraine's 57th brigade firing, but modern artillery is needed to save shells and eliminate guided aerieal bombs and impending Russian assaults

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Dispatch

Ukrainian soldiers hold back Russian onslaught with scavenged 1950s howitzer, DIY shells

Facing an overwhelming Russian force, Ukrainian fighters in Kherson have found a lifeline in a captured Soviet howitzer and their own makeshift shells amid a dire shortage of artillery

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Dispatch

World looks away as Russia bombs Kherson daily

Still raging over their expulsion from Kherson, Russian invaders now seek to reduce the city to ashes, bombarding homes, shops and aid distribution points in a vicious scorched earth assault that claims civilian lives daily.

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Zarina Zabrisky

UN traces Kherson’s “human safari” up the chain of command — to Putin himself

Highway of fire: Russian drones turn Kherson’s lifeline road into a death trap

“Every object is a maybe.” Russia’s cheapest traps are killing Ukraine’s scarce bomb experts

Inside the secret workshops where Ukraine’s hipster engineers build killer drones

The UN confirmed what I saw in Kherson: Russia is hunting civilians for sport

“First they shell, then they hunt”: Russia’s savage new civilian terror strategy debuts in Kherson

Kherson under brutal assault as Russia plans a new offensive

Ukraine deploys demining drones to break Russia’s Dnipro wall

Russian drones now drop anti-personnel landmines on civilians in Kherson

Russian drones hunt civilians, terrorize Kherson with “human safari”

Can Ukraine cancel Russia’s imperial history? Odesa debates decolonization

Fifty-year-old howitzers crack under strain in Ukraine’s Kharkiv defense

Ukrainian soldiers hold back Russian onslaught with scavenged 1950s howitzer, DIY shells

World looks away as Russia bombs Kherson daily

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