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Russia falsely promises work on occupied areas to migrants from Central Asia but sends to trenches instead

Russia lures migrants from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan by offering them high-paying jobs in "reconstruction" on occupied Ukrainian territories and a potential Russian citizenship, but many end up in the military service due to unprotected rights and manipulations.

byVira Kravchuk

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Russian Aggression

If martial law is suspended for elections, Ukraine will lose its army, Zelenskyy warns

Ukraine would be legally required to drastically reduce its wartime-sized army. Moreover, millions - most refugees abroad, soldiers, and those in occupied territories - would be unable to vote.

byYuri Zoria

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Latest news Ukraine

Almost 63,000 people considered missing in Ukraine, says Interior Ministry

The missing persons registry lists both military personnel and civilians.

byYuri Zoria

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Russian attacks damage over 1,300 cultural monuments across Ukraine, Culture Ministry says

The Russian invasion damaged 1,333 cultural heritage sites and 2,185 cultural infrastructure facilities across Ukraine, with January 2025 seeing 78 additional sites affected

byYuri Zoria

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Latest news Ukraine

Russians shift to civilian fuel trucks for military logistics amid Ukrainian strikes

Atesh resistance movement in occupied Crimea claims Russia is adjusting logistics by employing civilian fuel trucks after Ukrainian strikes, arguing this tactic violates international law.

byYuri Zoria

More children return to Ukraine from Russian occupation.

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukraine returns 8 children from Russian-occupied territories

Eight Ukrainian children, aged 6 to 16, have been successfully returned from Russian-occupied territories through diplomatic negotiations.

byMaria Tril

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukrainian patients in occupied territories to be denied free medications without Russian passports

The Eastern Human Rights Group has said that from next year, access to free subsidized medications in Russian-occupied territories will be available only for those who hold a Russian passport.

byOlena Mukhina

Illegal military conscription of local residents–citizens of Ukraine–in occupied Crimea into the Russian military conducted at one of the military commissariats on the peninsula. Photo: rk.gov.ru

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry protests Russian conscription in occupied territories

The Ukrainian government is urging its citizens in Russian-held areas to resist conscription attempts by Russian occupying forces.

byMaria Tril

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Latest news Ukraine

“War returns home,” says Latvian defense minister about Kursk incursion

While acknowledging Ukraine's seizure of over a thousand square kilometers of Russia's Kursk Oblast, Latvian Defense Minister Andris Sprūds cautioned against underestimating Russia's capacity for prolonged war, citing its disregard for human life and readiness to mobilize all resources.

byVira Kravchuk

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Stolen childhood: Ukrainian teens recount grim experiences under Russian occupation

Fear, violence and forced conscription drive Ukrainian teens to leave occupied towns

byChristine Chraibi

Ukrainians returned home from occupied territories

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukrainian NGO repatriates six more children from Russian occupation

Save Ukraine returned 290 children from Ukraine’s Russian-occupied territories in total, while the official number of illegally deported children stands at 19,546, representing only the documented cases.

byVira Kravchuk

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia destroys over 60,000 hectares of Ukrainian forests worth over $ 360 mn – investigation

About 80% of the protected natural area of the Svyati Hory National Nature Park in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast has been devastated due to the intense combat.

byMaria Tril

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2024

Fraud, coercion, 90%+ for Putin: how Russia staged a sham election in occupied Ukraine

After Russia reported impossible turnouts amid "voting" under gunpoint in a land that is not it own, Ukraine is calling on the world to declare Putin an illegitimate president

byAlya Shandra

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Latest news Ukraine

British Intel: Occupation authorities force Ukrainians into sham Russian presidential vote

Russian occupying authorities increase their push for residents to vote in presidential election polls. In Luhansk, 2,600 Russian officials have been tasked with visiting homes and pressuring residents to participate in the Kremlin's illegal voting exercise.

byMaria Tril

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Russia to hold presidential vote in occupied Ukraine, violating Ukrainian Constitution

Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets called on world to condemn the illegal elections, Russia is preparing in four Ukrainian oblasts occupied by Russian forces

byMaria Tril

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Latest news Ukraine

Intel: Russia intensifies forced mobilization in occupied territories of Ukraine

Virtually all men aged 18 to 65, and often even 16 and 17-year-old teenagers, are under threat of forced mobilization, with Moscow compelling them to join the occupying army, GUR reported.

byIryna Voichuk

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Latest news Ukraine

UK intel: Russia to extend voting to Ukraine’s occupied areas to legitimize invasion

Russian authorities will extend unfair and controlled 2024 presidential election voting to occupied Ukrainian territories in an effort to legitimize its invasion through rigged pro-Russian results, per UK intelligence.

byYuri Zoria

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Latest news Ukraine

Insurgent Ukrainian resistance successfully executes operation in Russia-occupied Melitopol – UA intel

Ukrainian insurgents successfully attacked the entrance to Melitopol on December 1, 2023, neutralizing Russian occupiers and damaging an enemy fuel tanker

byOrysia Hrudka

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Latest news Ukraine

Power outages across Russia-occupied areas follow nighttime attack on thermal power plant

Acting head of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) reports an overnight attempt to damage the energy system, resulting in a partial blackout and affecting "half of Mariupol, Donetsk, Yenakiyeve, and Horlivka."

byOrysia Hrudka

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Latest news Ukraine

Official: Russian army “eliminated” almost all Ukrainian literature in occupied Luhansk, Donetsk

Ukraine's Ex-Deputy Prosecutor General accuses Russia of eradicating Ukrainian literature in occupied territories, by replacing local literature with Russian publications, hints at cultural genocide.

byYuri Zoria