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Trudy Rubin: From hell to Harvard: One Ukrainian's escape and how you can help fulfill her dreams

Fifteen months ago, Alina Beskrovna was huddled with her mother and 30 other Ukrainians in a pitch-black basement in Mariupol, as Russian shells rained down and buildings around them collapsed in flames. I didn't know whether she was alive or dead.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

What to know about the harrowing Ukraine war doc '20 Days in Mariupol'

Theatergoers in select cities will soon be able to watch “20 Days in Mariupol,” the visceral documentary on Russia’s early assault on the Ukrainian city

The Independent UK

In ’20 Days in Mariupol’ documentary, the horrors of war illuminated

Associated Press video journalist Mstyslav Chernov's Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting of the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is illuminated in his documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” a joint project between The Associated Press and PBS “Frontline.”

The Independent UK

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Azov commanders return home: A diplomatic win for Ukraine, a slap in the face for Russia

When Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky returned from a visit to Turkey last weekend, he did not board the plane alone. Joining him were five former Azov commanders, captured by Russia in the 2022 siege of Mariupol and later handed over to Turkey in a prisoner exchange. Their return to Ukraine…

France 24

Volodymyr Zelensky brings home Azovstal plant defenders from Turkey

President Volodymyr Zelensky brought home from Turkey five former commanders of Ukraine's garrison in Mariupol, a highly symbolic achievement that Russia said violated a prisoner exchange deal engineered last year.

Evening Standard

Germany shouldn't 'block' US from sending cluster munitions to Ukraine, says president

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday said the country should not "block" the United States from sending cluster bombs to Ukraine, while defending its opposition to the use of the controversial weapon. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday voiced hope for the "best possible result" from an upcoming NATO summit…

France 24

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 501 of the invasion

Volodymyr Zelenskiy announces return of Mariupol commanders from Turkey and Rishi Sunak reiterates UK’s ban on cluster munitions

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Moscow hits out as Turkey allows return of ‘hero’ Mariupol commanders – as it happened

Moscow says men’s return to Ukraine is a ‘direct violation’ of prisoner swap agreement

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy brings home Azovstal commanders from Turkey

Russia slams Kyiv and Ankara for ‘violating a deal’ under which the men were to remain in Turkey until the end of war.

Al Jazeera

Nottinghamshire soldier Aiden Aslin opens up on being captured, tortured and stabbed

He was beaten and left to starve

Nottingham Post

'I lived underground and survived on radiation water - now I'm going to Harvard'

Alina Beskrovna has told how she hid in a basement in Mariupol, Ukraine, and drank "radiator water" as Russian shelling rained down but now her family has escaped and she is taking a Master's at Harvard

Daily Mirror

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 491 of the invasion

Death toll in Kramatorsk rocket attack rises to 12 as rescue operations end; Ukraine claims to be making advances towards Berdiansk and Mariupol

The Guardian - AU

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Both sides suffer heavy losses as Ukrainian counteroffensive makes small gains; Ukrainians take reconstruction efforts into own hands as billions in aid pledged at London forum

The Guardian - AU

Casualties mount as Ukraine’s forces inch south hamlet by hamlet

Clearest progress in counteroffensive has come north of occupied Mariupol, but Kyiv’s troops have paid a high price

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The Guardian - UK

Mariupol’s exiled leaders look to the future with plans to rebuild

Ukrainian mayor says there is no time to waste in drawing up vision for devastated city, which is now under Russian control

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine offensive moving towards Mariupol, minister says – as it happened

Centre of fighting has moved as Ukrainian forces slowly push back Russians, says Hanna Maliar, a deputy defence minister

The Guardian - UK

Focus of war shifting south towards Mariupol, Ukrainian minister says

Deputy defence minister tells Guardian that Ukrainian forces are making progress, with far fewer deaths than Russia

The Guardian - UK

‘War criminals: whatever you do, we’ll record it’: the ‘merciless’ Ukrainian film about Mariupol

20 Days in Mariupol by Mstyslav Chernov traces the Russian siege of the port in harrowing detail. Here, he discusses his documentary with a fellow war reporter

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The Independent UK

Homecoming on film: Award-winning Mariupol documentary screened for 1st time in Ukraine

The award-winning film “20 Days in Mariupol” made its premiere in Ukraine, attended by some Ukrainian medics and security officials who got their first look at the jarring documentary on how Russian forces bombed and blasted their way into the southeastern port city last year

The Guardian - UK

‘I was so scared’: the Ukrainian children taken to Russia for financial gain

Ukraine says 16,000 children have been deported from Russian-held territory during the war – many by friends and relatives seeking to make money from fostering

The Independent UK

Ukraine soccer league set for a title-deciding game in a remarkable, war-hit season

Two soccer teams exiled from cities in war-battered eastern Ukraine will play each other Sunday in the safer western part of the country with the league title at stake

The Independent UK

A year after Mariupol’s fall, Azovstal survivor recalls surrender with pain and a sense of purpose

A Mariupol police officer who was among the last defenders to surrender from the Azovstal steel mill is among those to mark a year since they surrendered on orders of the Ukrainian president

The Guardian - AU

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

UK to build ‘international coalition’ for F-16 fighter jets; life in Mariupol a year since Russian occupation

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s like the USSR’: residents on life in Mariupol a year since Russian occupation

People tell Guardian of ‘primitive’ living standards, propaganda in schools and constant risk of arrest

The Independent UK

Prize-winning AP team served as world's eyes in Mariupol

Instincts about the strategic significance of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol led a team of Associated Press journalists there just as Russians were about to lay siege

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