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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Shaun Walker |Manisha Ganguly |Artem Mazhulin |Pjotr Sauer |Lucy Swan
Some weeks after being detained as she attempted to leave a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine in January 2023, Yelyzaveta Shylykwas given a polygraph test. As her interrogators attached the lie detector’s wires to her, they calmly issued a threat about what would happen if she failed the test: “You’ll go to a place where you’ll regret being born.”That place, she would later find out, had a name: Sizo number 2, a pre-trial detention centre in the southern Russian city of Taganrog.
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2 months ago | 
freitag.de | Shaun Walker |Artem Mazhulin
Während einige Passanten im Zentrum der Hauptstadt Kiew durchaus erleichtert sind über ein mögliches Ende des Krieges, fühlen sich andere von den USA betrogen und sehen in einem Frieden keine Gewähr gegen künftige russische Angriffe Von The Guardian Das erste, was Olena Litowtschenko dachte, als sie die Nachricht vom Telefonat zwischen Donald Trump und Wladimir Putin hörte: Es könnte vielleicht an der Zeit sein, die Ukraine zu verlassen.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Shaun Walker |Artem Mazhulin
The first thing Olena Litovchenko thought, when she read the news of Donald Trump’s phone call to Vladimir Putin on Wednesday evening, was that it might finally be time for her to leave Ukraine. “It feels like Ukraine is being screwed,” said Litovchenko, a personal trainer who was born in Kyiv and has stayed in the city throughout the three years of full-scale war.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
msn.com | Shaun Walker |Artem Mazhulin
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
msn.com | Shaun Walker |Artem Mazhulin
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Shaun Walker |Artem Mazhulin
Ukraine is reeling from the shock decision by the Trump administration to pause all US foreign aid programmes immediately, as a variety of projects in the country – from military veteran rehabilitation programmes to independent media and anti-corruption initiatives – have effectively been stopped overnight.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
msn.com | Emma Graham-Harrison |Artem Mazhulin
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Emma Graham-Harrison |Artem Mazhulin
‘It brings back a sense of belonging’: Bakhmut was destroyed by Russia – but the town lives on through its newspaperBefore Bakhmut became famous internationally as a battleground, it was known inside Ukraine for salt, sparkling wine fermented in an old alabaster mine and roses that lined its streets. That physical town is gone now, its buildings in ruins, its streets a no man’s land of makeshift cemeteries laced with mines.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Emma Graham-Harrison |Artem Mazhulin
Before Bakhmut became famous internationally as a battleground, it was known inside Ukraine for salt, sparkling wine fermented in an old alabaster mine and roses that lined its streets. That physical town is gone now, its buildings in ruins, its streets a no man’s land of makeshift cemeteries laced with mines. Russian troops destroyed it as they claimed it, inch by inch, in a slow campaign between the summers of 2022 and 2023. Ukrainian resistance turned this Donbas town into a byword for courage.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Emma Graham-Harrison |Artem Mazhulin
Russian troops tortured Oleksii Sivak for weeks, applying electric shocks to his genitals in a freezing basement in his home city of Kherson in punishment for resisting their rule. When Ukrainian troops freed the city in the autumn of 2022, Sivak was presented with a long list of medical specialists who could help his recovery and asked to tick the ones he needed.
