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Russian Aggression

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Russian aggression in Europe and in Ukraine in particular.

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“Three Russian soldiers raped my mother and sister. The fourth made me watch.” Hundreds of cases of rape by Russian soldiers in Ukraine

Contents Rape – a “standard tactic” of the Russian military“No, you will watch”“We’ll rape you to the point…

byOrysia Hrudka

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First-hand accounts

Escape from Mariupol. “I begged God to let me die quickly!”

Mariupol residents Mariya and her family spent almost one month hiding from Russian shelling and bombs. 17-year-old Mariya…

byChristine Chraibi

Russian state TV propagandists working among Russian troops in Ukraine wear "Press" signs in English, not in Russian or Ukrainian, to make them look more "independent." Mar-2022 (Photo: Rossiya1 TV program screenshot by Newizv.ru)

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Putin triples spending on state media to promote his war in Ukraine

There is a classic Soviet joke which ever more frequently comes to mind given Vladimir Putin’s war in…

byPaul A. Goble

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The scope of the EU energy dependence on Moscow and practical ways out

Contents The scope of EU dependence on Moscow also reveals that Moscow will collapse should the EU disconnect…

byBohdan Ben

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Russian Aggression

The Ukrainian Aleppo, or unprecedented terror in Borodianka – Dispatch from Ukraine

You probably have never heard about the small town of Borodianka before Russia’s war. Back in Soviet times,…

byAnatolii Shara

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Russian Aggression

Russia plans sham referendum to formalize its occupation of Ukraine’s south

Ukrainian reports on the Russian intentions to declare the so-called “Kherson people’s republic” circulate from the first weeks…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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First-hand accounts

Imagine your city under siege with no electricity. I lived through it in Ukraine

A large modern metropolis spending a week without electricity. Could anyone imagine something like that happening in Ukraine…

byUkrainian media sources

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Saving Private fluffy: how Ukrainians rescue pets and zoo animals from war

Pets, animals and wildlife face death and extinction and endure much suffering in the midst of the war…

byChristine Chraibi

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Russian Aggression

Russian war crimes: is it possible to take Putin to justice?

Helping the international community assess the scale of the Russian war crimes and create proper mechanisms to document…

byReanimation Package of Reforms

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“You’ve always been my helping hand”. Daughter of a Bucha victim helps orphans to cope with trauma

Contents “Mama, now I have to repay your love and give it to the world”The charity’s first stepsMost…

byOrysia Hrudka

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First-hand accounts

“My name was on Russia’s kill lists,” Mariupol journalist who joined territorial defense says

“I didn’t want to leave Mariupol, but on the first night after the beginning of the full-scale Russian…

byWar. Stories from Ukraine

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Russian Aggression

Russia’s shelling of Irpin apartment complex to be submitted to International Criminal Court

The case in question concerns the shelling of Irpin’s neighborhood Rich Town. The investigators managed to establish a…

byCivic Sector Organizations

dead bodies in mariupol; meanwhile russia deports those alive via filtration camps

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Russian Aggression

Russia holds about 27,000 Mariupolites in “filtration camps” in Donetsk Oblast – Mariupol authorities

The ongoing deportation of the Ukrainians to Russia presented in Russian propaganda outlets as evacuation includes passing the…

byYuri Zoria

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War in Donbas

“Russians almost prepared, waiting when rain ends” – battlefront governor on impending “epic fight” for Donbas

Given the constant danger of shelling, and the approaching fierce fighting, Ukrainian officials urged people from Donetsk and…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

Russian war crimes Makariv Ukraine occupation

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Russian occupiers in Makariv shelled the civilian shelter “in an instant” – Dispatch from Ukraine

The town of Makariv is a small quiet picturesque place in the Kyiv Oblast. For a long time,…

byAnatolii Shara

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First-hand accounts

“Russians are wrecking everything out of envy”: Ukrainian recalls harrowing escape, shares thoughts about Russia

Contents First days of Russian war against UkraineHouse on fire No intention of becoming a refugee“People are always…

byBohdan Ben

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How Russia justifies the murder of Ukrainians: Russia’s 2022 “genocide handbook” deconstructed

Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder called the Russian infamous declaration “What Russia should do to Ukraine” published on 3 April 2022 a “genocide handbook”. The text justifies the Russian murder of Ukrainians and the destruction of the Ukrainian nation, testifying an intent to destroy a specific group, which falls under the legal definition of genocide.

byOrysia Hrudka