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Hospillers volunteer paramedic batallion Russian invasion Russian-Ukeainian war combat medicine training stop the bleed

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Dispatch

Inside Ukraine’s medical corps where NATO standards face drone war reality check

Behind Ukraine's front lines, a 500-strong volunteer medical force discovers what happens when their ambulances become top targets for cutting-edge war tech, forcing them to create rules Western armies rush to adopt.

byDavid Kirichenko

18 minute read

Dispatch

Effectiveness of Russian soldiers grows, Ukrainian company commander says

In a candid interview, Ukrainian army commander tells about forging a ragtag army fighting with a potpourri of weapons, Russia's improved fighting tactics, and the growing chasm between the military and the home front

byBohdan Ben

7 minute read

“We can handle it somehow, but what about the children?” Russian missile attack survivor says

For Serhiy, 14 January started as an ordinary morning. With his 16-year-old son, the man decided to visit…

byOrysia Hrudka

16 minute read

Victims of deadliest Russian missile attack still coping with grief

Russia’s attack on a residential building in Dnipro, in January, killed 46 people and destroyed dozens of flats,…

byOrysia Hrudka

11 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2024

Russia targets Black Sea town, tries to destroy proposed new grain corridor

Town survives, despite Russian shells: Ochakiv Mayor Serhii Bychkov Euromaidan Press: What happened in Ochakiv today (April 7)?…

byZarina Zabrisky

Prostheses of Ukrainian serviceman Dmytro

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“We joke that if a leg is amputated below the knee it doesn’t count.” Soldiers get advanced prosthetics in Ukraine

In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs…

byBohdan Ben

4 minute read

In villages around Bakhmut, civilians refuse to leave homes: photo report

Elderly residents, whose villages now resemble military garrisons rather than the once idyllic homes they once were, are…

byZarina Zabrisky

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2024

Invisible heroes: how deminers in Ukraine tackle dangerous fields on liberated lands

Each day on the walk to their current worksite, Oleksandr Ponomarenko and his team from Halo Trust pass…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

9 minute read

Ukraine

Businesses fleeing war to west Ukraine find a new life and help the army

Part 1: The Novovolynsk miracle: how Russia’s invasion turned a Ukrainian mining town into an uber-volunteer hub Part…

byOrysia Hrudka

8 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2024

How I live without power in Odesa

Like everyone else on my team, I work around blackouts day after day. An American journalist, I have…

byZarina Zabrisky

14 minute read

The spectre of the FSB haunts Moldova, next target of Russia’s hybrid war

Fake babushka protesters: a blast from the past The night before the protest, I walked to the building…

byZarina Zabrisky

10 minute read

No place like home. Meet the Ukrainians living in the ruins of their houses destroyed by Russia

Tamara’s story. Why Irpin family, whose house was destroyed, declines offers to move, instead living in their garage…

byOrysia Hrudka

8 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2024

How it is to have your home destroyed by a 2 AM Russian missile strike

Bohdan Horelov was at home with his parents in their seventh-floor apartment when the attack occurred. “I was…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

9 minute read

Russian War Crimes

The smell of death from Izium does not go away

The odor of mass graves “The stench of decomposing human bodies is the worst smell any living person…

byZarina Zabrisky

16 minute read

People of Ukraine

How the fanciest pizzeria of Chernihiv fed 22,000 daily under Russia’s siege

In early March 2022, Russian troops passed the northern city of Chernihiv, approaching Ukraine’s capital, where heavy fighting…

byOrysia Hrudka

evacuation vulnerable elderly Ukraine war Bakhmut

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2024

Living on the brink: the struggle to evacuate Ukrainian civilians from Russia’s war

Bakhmut, a city with a pre-war population of 73,000, remains a principal axis of advance in Russia’s offensive…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

3 minute read

Russian War Crimes

Mass graves in liberated Izium: Photo report

After the liberation of Izium from Russian occupation on 10 September in Ukraine’s offensive in northeastern Ukraine, a…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

10 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2024

Kharkiv Oblast returns to life in Ukraine after six months of Russian occupation

After 6 months of Russian occupation, the Ukrainian army liberated the cities of Balakliia, Kupiansk, Izium, and Vovchansk…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

Izyum massacre Russian invasion of Ukraine war crimes

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Russian War Crimes

“Thin fingers raised like a final plea for help.” Exhuming the Izium massacre

121, 122, 123… Carelessly knocked together wooden crosses are marked with numbers. Their barely visible inscriptions blur into…

byUkrainian media sources

7 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2024

Russian mines, destruction, looting: Ukrainian farmers deal with aftermath of occupation

The road to the Iveria-Agro farm is littered with evidence of war. Destroyed homes, the shell of a…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor