Members phkrause Posted May 12 Author Members Report Share Posted May 12 Ukraine to hold first war crimes trial of captured Russian ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s top prosecutor disclosed plans Wednesday for the first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier, as fighting raged in the east and south and the Kremlin left open the possibility of annexing a corner of the country it seized early in the invasion. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-europe-d38703c060c6b066f2bd9012d147c6e1? phkrause 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted May 12 Author Members Report Share Posted May 12 ‘This tears my soul apart’: A Ukrainian boy and a killing BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — As he listened to his father die, the boy lay still on the asphalt. His elbow burned where a bullet had pierced him. His thumb stung from being grazed. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-b63f3ab89fc9a042be8e149f3459db22? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted May 13 Author Members Report Share Posted May 13 Facility for disabled on Ukraine front line mulls evacuation TAVRIISKE, Ukraine (AP) — There’s dancing in the garden, and ball games. A soft wind blows, cooling the spring sunshine. But there is an ominous accompaniment to the music and laughter: the unmistakable dull thud of not-so-distant artillery fire. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-health-evacuations-17ff565646b2a8c2f116c38e5d48ce08? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted May 13 Author Members Report Share Posted May 13 AP PHOTOS: Amid Ukraine war, seeking moments of normalcy A young girl hugs a beloved scraggly gray stuffed cat at a reception center for the hundreds of civilians evacuated from a Mariupol steel works plant after weeks of bombardment by Russian forces. Nearby, a young man kisses his real gray cat, the eyes of both man and pet closed in relief at their escape. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-d3c51036e382719bbdc26e55a970b9be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted May 13 Author Members Report Share Posted May 13 Russia takes losses in failed river crossing, officials say KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces suffered heavy losses in a Ukrainian attack that destroyed a pontoon bridge they were using to try to cross a river in the east, Ukrainian and British officials said in another sign of Moscow’s struggle to salvage a war gone awry. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-finland-a21a06ac0235bb89c9e8368e0ffca2c9? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted May 17 Author Members Report Share Posted May 17 Ukraine says mission at Mariupol steel mill is complete KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The regiment that doggedly defended a steel mill as Ukraine’s last stronghold in the port city of Mariupol completed its mission Monday after more than 260 fighters, including some badly wounded, were evacuated and taken to areas under Russia’s control, Ukrainian officials said. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-kyiv-moscow-6dc968ea8d353132bd8b8cb58b04734c? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted May 17 Author Members Report Share Posted May 17 AP PHOTOS: 10 weeks in Ukraine, making images hard to forget KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — The bodies of Russian soldiers, some horribly disfigured. Relatives weeping over the dead, some killed because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. And always, the thousands of Ukrainians fleeing horrific destruction as their cities and villages came under bombardment. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kharkiv-9303c5f705cc5775fb902ed835a49dbb? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted May 18 Author Members Report Share Posted May 18 Interrogation, uncertainty for surrendering Mariupol troops KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Nearly 1,000 last-ditch Ukrainian fighters who had held out inside Mariupol’s pulverized steel plant have surrendered, Russia said Wednesday, as the battle that turned the city into a worldwide symbol of defiance and suffering drew toward a close. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-moscow-d1c44b1acf6bd208eb8598811f4d08a1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted May 19 Author Members Report Share Posted May 19 In Ukraine, limbs lost and lives devastated in an instant KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — There is a cost to war — to the countries that wage it, to the soldiers who fight it, to the civilians who endure it. For nations, territory is gained and lost, and sometimes regained and lost again. But some losses are permanent. Lives lost can never be regained. Nor can limbs. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-health-government-and-politics-c7b3f81befcce9fba5fddefd8250f29c? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted May 19 Author Members Report Share Posted May 19 Ukrainian troops surrendering at Mariupol registered as POWs KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Hundreds more Ukrainian fighters who made their stand inside Mariupol’s bombed-out steel plant surrendered, bringing the total to over 1,700, Russia said Thursday, amid international fears the Kremlin will take reprisals against the prisoners. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-kyiv-nato-4cf194da8b1870d26cbedc0a7ec69ed6? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted May 20 Author Members Report Share Posted May 20 Captive medic’s bodycam shows firsthand horror of Mariupo KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A celebrated Ukrainian medic recorded her time in Mariupol on a data card no bigger than a thumbnail, smuggled out to the world in a tampon. Now she is in Russian hands, at a time when Mariupol itself is on the verge of falling. https://apnews.com/article/mariupol-medic-body-camera-036cf9f28180e9525760d68bddbe4ee4? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted May 21 Author Members Report Share Posted May 21 The invisible Ukrainian who walked 225km to safety from Mariupol When Russian soldiers started going from house to house shooting people, Igor Pedin set off with his dog Zhu-Zhu to Zaporizhzhia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/13/the-invisible-ukrainian-who-walked-225km-to-safety-from-mariupol?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1 phkrause 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted May 24 Author Members Report Share Posted May 24 After 3 months, Russia still bogged down in Ukraine war When Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, it had hoped to overtake the country in a blitz lasting only days or a few weeks. Many Western analysts thought so, too. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-kyiv-politics-9e0c72aa16d97d7466f22dfbf6dc8fa0? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted May 28 Author Members Report Share Posted May 28 Russia takes small cities, aims to widen east Ukraine battle KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia asserted Saturday that its troops and separatist fighters had captured a key railway junction in eastern Ukraine, the second small city to fall to Moscow’s forces this week as they fought to seize all of the country’s contested Donbas region. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-donetsk-9c8eff24e02f795fd411a3edb968c926? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 3 Author Members Report Share Posted June 3 EXPLAINER: At 100 days, Russia-Ukraine war by the numbers GENEVA (AP) — One hundred days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war has brought the world a near-daily drumbeat of gut wrenching scenes: Civilian corpses in the streets of Bucha; a blown-up theater in Mariupol; the chaos at a Kramatorsk train station in the wake of a Russian missile strike. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-moscow-government-and-politics-7c1d0e4a3795919c56cabdb0dd51d61c? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 4 Author Members Report Share Posted June 4 As Ukraine loses troops, how long can it keep up the fight? ZHYTOMYR, Ukraine (AP) — As soon as they had finished burying a veteran colonel killed by Russian shelling, the cemetery workers readied the next hole. Inevitably, given how quickly death is felling Ukrainian troops on the front lines, the empty grave won’t stay that way for long. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-government-and-politics-e076f509008b021a8e687d525e34c948 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 10 Author Members Report Share Posted June 10 3 foreigners who fought for Ukraine sentenced to death BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — Two British citizens and a Moroccan were sentenced to death Thursday for fighting on Ukraine’s side, in a punishment handed down by the country’s pro-Moscow rebels. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-moscow-business-blockades-74883ed750fb8778259cf733e1095fb8? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 10 Author Members Report Share Posted June 10 War rap: In Ukraine, an angry voice for a furious generation KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — From the battlefronts of Ukraine comes rap music — filled with the anger and indignation of a young generation that, once the fighting is done, will certainly never forget and may never forgive. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-kyiv-entertainment-music-1d1fb3a4946a24e9cc126478be07b767? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 11 Author Members Report Share Posted June 11 Russian-speaking Adventists in Germany Among Those Helping Ukraine Refugees The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Germany met with other organizations February 28, 2022, to discuss concrete steps to help refugees affected by the war in Ukraine. The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Germany, the Advent Welfare Office (AWW), and the Friedensau Theological Seminary are among the organizations involved. A working group known as Russian-speaking Adventists in Germany is also involved, leaders reported. https://adventistreview.org/news/russian-speaking-adventists-in-germany-among-those-helping-ukraine-refugees/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 12 Author Members Report Share Posted June 12 As fighting rages, Ukraine’s leader says troops defy Russia KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said no one knows how long the war in his country will last but that Ukrainian forces are defying expectations by preventing Russian troops from overrunning eastern Ukraine, where the fighting has been fierce for weeks. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-moscow-21c8ae5b08a3f7be173ddf4339d88921? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 13 Author Members Report Share Posted June 13 The battle of Donbas could prove decisive in Ukraine war Day after day, Russia is pounding the Donbas region of Ukraine with relentless artillery and air raids, making slow but steady progress to seize the industrial heartland of its neighbor. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-politics-moscow-cf941fa9c14f86fae2008f0361adfcea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 14 Author Members Report Share Posted June 14 The Peace keeping that Russia is doing in Ukraine is just incredible to me!!!!! Bucolic Ukraine forest is site of mass grave exhumation BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — The lush green beauty of a pine forest with singing birds contrasted with the violent deaths of newly discovered victims of Russia’s war in Ukraine, as workers exhumed bodies from another mass grave near the town of Bucha on Kyiv’s outskirts. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-business-criminal-investigations-bed8a5fac1dab4cfcdf45aed815ff510? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 15 Author Members Report Share Posted June 15 Russians control 80% of key Ukraine city, cut escape routes LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops control about 80% of the fiercely contested eastern city of Sievierodonetsk and have destroyed all three bridges leading out of it but Ukrainians were still trying to evacuate the wounded, a regional official said Tuesday. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-government-and-politics-01f6d1c027ce68791667ffaafb61e30c? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 16 Author Members Report Share Posted June 16 French president visits Kyiv suburb, decries ‘massacre’ IRPIN, Ukraine (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that there are signs of war crimes in a Kyiv suburb following “massacres” by Russian forces. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-politics-olaf-scholz-515075496ed9d6cfe3e4acde23b52f8e? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 17 Author Members Report Share Posted June 17 Amid Ukraine’s war, a farmer takes comfort in her snails VERESNYA, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian farmer was living a quiet life with the quietest of creatures: snails that she raises for export. Then, skies on the horizon turned flaming red. Russia had launched its invasion and nearby towns were burning. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-656622379c34032688748440182ec1f1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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