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Russia eyes Bakhmut's capture by April as NATO ramps up military equipment for Ukraine

Russia rains missiles across Ukraine, striking its largest oil refinery, Kyiv says, while the head of the Wagner mercenary group predicts the long-besieged city of Bakhmut would fall by April.

ABC News · Feb 16, 2023

Ukraine security forces smash prostitution ring amid wider crackdown on corruption

Security services search the home of one of Ukraine's most-prominent billionaires — who was once seen as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's sponsor — in what authorities are calling a wartime anti-corruption purge.

ABC News · Feb 1, 2023

Ukraine remembers a famine under Stalin, and points to parallels with Putin

Ukraine marked 90 years since a terrible famine that killed at least 4 million of its people. The event was especially poignant this year as Ukraine deals with its present crisis.

WEKU · Nov 28, 2022

Russia-Ukraine latest: UN says war impact on world ‘severe’

War in Ukraine’s effect on food, energy, finance is ‘systemic, severe, and speeding up’, UN chief Antonio Guterres says.

Al Jazeera · Jun 7, 2022

US, Western Europe fret over uncertain Ukraine war endgame

Russia’s war in Ukraine is grinding into its third month with little sign of a decisive military victory for either side, and no resolution in sight

The Independent UK · May 11, 2022

The value of virtue: 7 reasons why Volodymyr Zelenskyy's crisis leadership has been so effective

The war in Ukraine would test even the most hardened political operator: millions forced to flee their homes, thousands (including many civilians) killed or injured, evidence of Russian war crimes mounting.

The Conversation · Apr 29, 2022

In Kyiv, Blinken and Austin announce aid, diplomatic surge

The Biden administration has unveiled new U.S. military assistance and a diplomatic surge for Ukraine as Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin completed a secrecy-shrouded visit to the capital of Kyiv

The Independent UK · Apr 25, 2022

No looking away from Putin’s war crimes in Ukraine

Beyond the atrocities documented in Bucha, the world now also has heard the horrific news that thousands of Ukrainians have reportedly been kidnapped and taken to “filtration camps” in Russia. Putin and his henchmen must be held accountable.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 6, 2022

Zelenskyy to address UN as renewed Russian offensive looms in east

KYIV, Ukraine — Armed with evidence of gruesome atrocities by Moscow’s troops against civilians, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy is expected to make an impassioned appeal to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday for a full-scale war crimes investigation as his defense officials warned of a reinvigorated Russian assault in…

Los Angeles Times · Apr 5, 2022

Ukraine's First Lady blasts Putin's 'mass murder' as she names children killed

Olena Zelenska, wife of President Volodomyr Zelenskyy, said "aggressor" Vladimir Putin had underestimated her country's resolve and citizens stood united in spite of "horrific reality"

Daily Mirror · Mar 9, 2022