After months of bombings, the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut is now the scene of a fierce battle. While the neighborhood is being bombarded by artillery, some locals seek refuge underground, while a few others risk their lives to work at an outdoor market where they can make a small amount of money.
Late last year, a controversial law expanding government control over Ukrainian media was signed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Some critics of the new law have called it censorship
Russian shelling have been a part of Odesa’s daily life ever since Russia invaded Ukraine. But a dedicated group of locals from police officers to hairdressers are fighting back as part of a territorial defense effort.
Retired from U.S. Army’s Green Beret special forces unit, Ryan Hendrickson is now retired. However, he is currently in Ukraine, working to remove mines and protect civilians.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, between 10,000 and 13,000 Ukrainian soldiers have killed, according to estimates made by Ukrainian officials in early December.
In order to raise awareness of the need in Ukraine, former U.S. Air Force vetern Mark Lindquist has been sleeping outside in Fargo, North Dakota. His focus has since turned to helping the Ukrainian people after he visited the war-torn country earlier this year.
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, war is at the doorstep of the European Union for the first time in decades.The 27-member bloc has so far responded to the conflict in a remarkably unifying manner.But how long will it last as war is continuing and that it will certainly cause an energy crisis and a recession in the EU?
Little Ukraine residents in New York City’s East Village as well as local Ukrainian Americans have been doing what they can to help war refugees from the war-torn country who have arrived in the US.Narrated by Anna Rice, Evgeny Maslov has this report VOA News
In response to recent Russian missile and drone attacks on energy infrastructure, Ukraine’s energy provider Ukrenergo has been carrying out emergency shutdowns in the Kyiv region.
The Russian armed forces’ continued attacks against Ukraine’s critical energy infrastructure, are a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and are endangering the lives of civilians with freezing temperatures setting in, Amnesty International said today, as it calls for Russia to end its unlawful targeted assaults on civilian infrastructure.