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“We can handle it somehow, but what about the children?” Russian missile attack survivor says
[editorial]On 14 January 2023 at 3.30 p.m. a Russian missile hit the Building 118 in Dnipro city, completely…
Victims of deadliest Russian missile attack still coping with grief
[editorial]Russia’s attack on a residential building in Dnipro, in January, killed 46 people and destroyed dozens of flats,…
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)?…
“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…
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…
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…
Businesses fleeing war to west Ukraine find a new life and help the army
[editorial]Novovolynsk, a small Ukrainian city of 50,000 residents near the Polish border, accepted 10,000 displaced persons and became…
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…
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…
No place like home. Meet the Ukrainians living in the ruins of their houses destroyed by Russia
[editorial] Since the Russian invasion in February 2022, in both Bucha and Irpin, nearly 2,000 houses have been…
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…
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…
How the fanciest pizzeria of Chernihiv fed 22,000 daily under Russia’s siege
[editorial]During the Russian siege, Chernihiv’s fanciest pizzeria metamorphed into a self-organized volunteer center that fed 22,000 people daily.…
Kids starved as Russians devoured the villagers’ chickens, pigs, and dogs: war crimes near Chernhiv
As the Russian soldiers occupied villages of Chernihiv Oblast, they locked up nearly 400 people, including kids and…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
Killed for refusing to shout “Glory to Russia!”: Russian war crimes in Trostianets
On 24 February 2022, two powerful columns of the Russian army broke into Sumy Oblast. One was intended…
