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Russian occupation authorities of Kherson Oblast.

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Latest news Ukraine

ISW: Russian-occupied areas in Ukraine hold preliminary voting for United Russia party

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) states that Russian occupation authorities are using education and political systems to forcibly integrate Ukrainian civilians in the occupied areas into Russian sociocultural, economic, military, and governance systems.

byVira Kravchuk

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Obey to pray: Russia’s ruthless crackdown on faith in occupied Ukraine

From a Protestant pastor imprisoned for his American citizenship, to an Orthodox bishop pressured to embrace the "Russian World," to an evangelical church shuttered after sheltering the displaced, the stories of religious persecution in occupied Ukraine are as diverse as they are devastating.

byVira Kravchuk

Prymachenko museum Russian invasion Ukrainian art culture

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Dispatch

Rescuing art while the world burns: Prymachenko’s paintings survive Russian invasion

Invasion As Russia's "special military operation" turned Ivankiv into a war zone, a ragtag band of museum staff and locals decided that saving some folk art was more important than staying alive.

byAnatolii Shara

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Latest news Ukraine

UK Intel: Russia seized 180 Ukrainian companies worth $ 11.5B since invasion

The report also highlights Russia's redistribution of assets to Kremlin-aligned businesspeople who support the war in Ukraine.

byYevheniia Martyniuk

pseudo-elections Russian-occupied Ukraine falsification

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Latest news Ukraine

Official: Russia returns worst forms of Sovietism to occupied areas

Occupied Ukraine sees the return of Soviet-era practices, including coercion in recruitment, unpaid wages, long lines for services, and suppression of rights, as reported by a Zaporizhzhia Oblast official.

byYuri Zoria

Ukraine claims milestone in top UN Court, but Russia left unpunished

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Latest news Ukraine

UK intel: Russia threatens to deport Ukrainians without Russian passports from occupied areas

Russia forcing Ukrainian residents in occupied areas to accept Russian citizenship or face deportation, per UK intelligence.

byYuri Zoria

Russian troops stand near the Zaporizhzhia NPP

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Latest news Ukraine

Energoatom: Russia-seized Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant survives eight full blackouts since invasion started

At the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe's largest nuclear station, eight blackouts and one partial outage have occurred amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine since 2022, raising concerns about nuclear safety risks under Russian occupation.

byYuri Zoria

prymachenko museum Ivankiv Russian occupation Ukraine cultural heritage

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Dispatch

Russian war’s cruel whims: some Ukrainian towns rebuild, others remain decimated

Thirty kilometers from the Ukrainian capital, the villages that saved it from the Russian invasion are now either ghost town or success story

byAnatolii Shara

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Analysis

ISW: Four reasons why there is no alternative to the total liberation of Ukraine

Anything short of restoration of Ukraine's 1991 borders will be economically unliftable for Ukraine and the West

byThink Tank

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia recruits Wagner mercenaries to brainwash Ukrainian children from occupied territories

Ukraine’s National Resistance Center has revealed that Russia has recruited mercenaries from the Wagner private military company to…

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Five Russian occupation officials reportedly killed in Kherson Oblast strike

Ukrainian forces struck a building in the village of Yuvileine, an occupied part of Kherson Oblast, targeting a meeting of senior Russian officials, as per Ukraine's National Resistance Center.

byIryna Voichuk

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Missile strikes and spraypaint: how Ukraine’s resistance movement fights Russian occupation

In a lethal game of cat-and-mouse, Ukraine's resistance movement defies the threat of jail, torture, and death to bomb, spraypaint, and spike moonshine while waiting for liberation

byAlya Shandra

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Latest news Ukraine

DTEK energy company claims $ 267 million victory in The Hague against Russia over Crimea assets

DTEK Group prevails in The Hague case, securing a $267 million award from Russia for the confiscation of assets in occupied Crimea.

byYuri Zoria

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Latest news Ukraine

Intel: Russia forcibly conscripts up to 60,000 in occupied Ukraine

Assessing civilians in occupied areas are seen as expendable, a Ukrainian intel official said Russian forces violently mobilized up to 60,000 to send untrained to the frontlines.

byAlya Shandra