Residents of Sumy, northeastern Ukraine, gathered on April 15 to bury some of the victims of a Russian missile strike two days earlier. The attack, which killed 35 people and injured over 100, took place as people gathered to observe the holiday of Palm Sunday.
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‘We Don’t Have a Day or Night of Calm’
A gigantic, roiling cloud of black smoke swirled up from a parking lot of burning cars, as residents milled about on a sidewalk in distress, and police and fire vehicles careened past. Then the scene became more chaotic.
“Shelter! shelter!” a policeman yelled. A thin, buzzing noise, like a…
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Ukraine Replaces Regional Governor As Sumy Buries More Killed In Russian Strike
Officials from around the world condemned Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, as the Ukrainian city of Sumy continued to sift through the wreckage caused by Russian a missile strike that left at least 34 people dead.
Ukraine’s state emergency service said two children were among those…
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Why Serbia’s EU ambitions are on the line as Vučić weighs up Putin invite
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Drone Attack On Kursk Kills Elderly Woman, Injures 9, Russian Authorities Say
Officials from around the world condemned Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, as the Ukrainian city of Sumy continued to sift through the wreckage caused by Russian a missile strike that left at least 34 people dead.
Ukraine’s state emergency service said two children were among those…
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Ukrainian Soldier Who Lost His Sight In Battle Finds Strength in Family
LVIV –- Pavlo Martsenyuk, a 34-year-old soldier from Ukraine’s Khmelnytskiy region, suffered a severe injury in a mine blast last year near Pokrovsk.
Martsenyuk’s unit was preparing to head to combat positions when a mine exploded. It was his third injury, but the most serious — he completely…
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Trump Says He Was Told Russia’s Deadly Strike Was a ‘Mistake’
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Trump Says He Was Told Russia’s Deadly Strike Was a ‘Mistake’
It was not immediately clear what President Trump meant when he said he had been told Russia “made a mistake” with…
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Russia admits to missile attack that killed Ukrainian civilians
Russia has admitted to carrying out a ballistic missile attack on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy that killed at least 34 civilians and injured a further 119, but blamed Kyiv for the casualties.
Moscow’s defence ministry said on Monday it had struck a gathering of Ukrainian military…
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Trump Calls Russia’s Strike on Sumy a ‘Mistake’
President Trump has said Russia’s deadly missile strikes on the Ukrainian city of Sumy was “a mistake,” calling it a “horrible thing” even as members of his administration went further with condemnation that served as a rare critique of Moscow while the White House is pushing for a…
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In Ukraine, Porn Is Illegal. So Why Are Its Creators Paying Taxes?
As Ukraine contends with a war raging on its eastern front and Russian attacks on its cities, one lawmaker is working on something that he says could help the nation: legalizing pornography.
Yaroslav Zhelezniak, deputy chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament’s finance committee, is leading a push…
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