WAR RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

'Your husband is absent': how relatives of Russian soldiers sent to Ukraine are trying to find out where they are and whether they are even alive

From the first days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, social networks were filled with photographs of captured and killed Russian soldiers. The issue of exchanging the bodies of the dead was acute back in March - President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky asked the Russian authorities to take the dead. Although periodically body swaps occur, a single mechanism ...

The United States accepted only a quarter of the promised number of Ukrainian refugees: the White House says Trump is to blame

Upon taking office, US President Joe Biden vowed to quickly change his predecessor's policies and increase the number of refugees allowed in the country. This promise remains largely unfulfilled due in part to unforeseen global crises. Newsweek writes about it. Since…

Hunger, cold and chronic diseases: Russian soldiers in Ukraine complain of poor supply and exhaustion

Protracted deployments and a lack of training, support, food and equipment are all affecting the morale of Russian soldiers as the war in Ukraine drags on, reports TheGuardian. Russia's attack on eastern Ukraine brought her some military success, as the armed…

'The Far East of Russia is waiting for you!': how Ukrainians are taken to God-forgotten Russian villages, promising mountains of gold

At the end of April, 308 people from Mariupol were brought to the village of Wrangel, Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is located 200 kilometers from Vladivostok. But many are trying to return to Central Russia. How Ukrainians ended up in the Far East, Pravmir reports. In the basement with a three-year-old…

New sanctions: the EU imposed an embargo on Russian oil and disconnected Sberbank from SWIFT

Late in the evening of May 30, the leaders of the EU countries agreed on the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, which provides for an embargo on imports of two-thirds of Russian oil and the disconnection of Sberbank from the SWIFT system, reports the BBC. For now, the ban will only apply to oil supplies, which…

Fenced off from the territory controlled by Kyiv: in the Kherson region, Russian invaders 'closed the border'

The “border” of the Kherson region captured by the Russians with territories controlled by Ukraine has been closed, Voice of America reports. This was reported by Russian state media with reference to the deputy head of the captured region, Kirill Stremousov, appointed by the Russian military. According to him, a ban on traveling to territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities has been introduced...

Miraculous rescue from the bombs: how a woman with a disability from Chernihiv made it to California

Inna Volkova, a lonely elderly woman with difficulty moving because of her sore leg, was caught by the war in her native Chernihiv. Under constant bombardment, it seemed that there was no longer a chance to get out of the city. However, Inna, having come a long way, was able to reunite with her ...

I was driving under constant bombing: a Ukrainian on a bicycle escaped from a blocked city

45-year-old Ukrainian Arif Bagirov fled from the "new Mariupol" Severodonetsk after a shell hit the apartment under him, which miraculously did not explode, DailyMail reports. The Kremlin will gain control of Lugansk in the key Donbas region if Severodonetsk falls. The city takes over…

Couldn't live there anymore: Russian journalist fled the country due to censorship

On the ninth day of Russia's war in Ukraine, TV2 editor-in-chief Viktor Muchnik gathered the staff for a meeting at their small newsroom in the Siberian city of Tomsk. What he told them and why he left Russia, told The Guardian. New laws…

'I'm tired': a resident of the Russian village on the border with Ukraine recorded a video message to Putin

A resident of the Kursk region (the border area between Russia and Ukraine) recorded a video message to Russian President Vladimir Putin. She said that she was tired of living with her son in the basement because of the constant shelling, while she did not forget to note that she supports and continues to support the war in Ukraine.…

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