An all-for-all prisoners-of-war exchange with Russia will not take place in the near future, despite the Ukrainian forces’ operation in Russia’s Kursk Oblast and the replenishment of the exchange pool. However, the Ukrainian side is doing everything po…
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A Russian Tu-22M3 bomber crashed in Irkutsk Oblast of Siberia due to a malfunction, the Russ…
70-year-old people who starved while in the womb were more than twice as likely to develop type 2 diabetes after the Holodomor of 1932-1933.
Source: a joint study by American scientists and scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, pub…
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Azov Brigade soldier Oleksandr Ishchenko died in Russian captivity due to blunt force trauma…
Following an autopsy, a forensic expert has determined that Ukrainian defender Oleksandr Ishchenko died in a pre-trial detention centre in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don from “closed blunt force trauma to the chest due to contact with a blunt object…
One person has been killed in Hrodivka and three others injured elsewhere in the oblast as a result of Russian attacks on Donetsk Oblast on 4 August.
Source: National Police of Ukraine; Vadym Filashkin, Head of Donetsk Oblast Military Administration&nb…
The first Ukrainian person exiled to Siberia was Demian Ihnatovych (Mnohohrishnyi), a 17th century hetman, or military commander.
Under Soviet rule, dozens of Gulag forced labour camps for political prisoners, and “special settlements” – where thousand…
The Russians have reopened the railway station in occupied Mariupol and dismantled the Metallurgists mosaic panel from the waiting room on the first floor. The panel by local monumental artists Valentyn Konstantinov and Lel Kuzminkov has been utterly d…
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Azov Brigade soldier Oleksandr Ishchenko has died in Russian captivity, Ukraine’s Ombudsman …
“I think my most vivid memory is the smell. A strange, even somewhat toxic smell of smoke, of burnt bodies.” This is how “Kraft”, a 23-year-old member of the Azov Brigade, recalls the night he survived two years ago.
He took the alias “Kraft” in honour…