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…
Russian media report that Ukrainian defender Oleksandr Ishchenko, who served as a driver in the Azov Regiment and was captured in Mariupol, has died in Russian custody at the Rostov-on-Don pre-trial detention centre.
Source: Mediazona Telegram channel;…
The Russians took children from the occupied settlement of Bilovodsk in Ukraine’s Luhansk Oblast to a military camp in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia. The schoolchildren, aged 11 to 17, are being coerced into military training in the tent city, which the R…
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Ukraine’s Oleksandr Khyzhniak progressed to the quarter-finals of the men’s middleweight box…
Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Khyzhniak has defeated Hungary’s Pylyp Akilov at the start of the Olympic boxing tournament in the men’s 80 kg weight class.
The 28-year-old Ukrainian got off to a good start, seizing the centre of the ring and trying out vari…