Asami Terajima
Reporter at The Kyiv Independent
Reporter at @KyivIndependent | Write me: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
kyivindependent.com | Nick Allard |Asami Terajima
On April 13, Russia launched a brutal double-tap attack on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy. Two ballistic missiles rocked the city center on Palm Sunday, killing at least 35 people — including two children — and shocking Ukraine and the world. The Kyiv Independent visited Sumy the day after the attack.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Nick Allard |Asami Terajima
On April 13, Russia launched a brutal double-tap attack on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy. Two ballistic missiles rocked the city center on Palm Sunday, killing at least 35 people — including two children — and shocking Ukraine and the world. The Kyiv Independent visited Sumy the day after the attack. We’ve been working hard to bring you independent, locally-sourced news from Ukraine. Consider supporting the Kyiv Independent.
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1 week ago |
kyivindependent.com | Asami Terajima
SUMY — Valeriia Maksimova and her husband woke up to the first explosion in central Sumy at around 10 a.m. Their house was damaged by the blast wave. The 38-year-old rushed to the kitchen to start clearing the rubble when the second explosion struck, throwing her three meters away into the corridor. Their apartment was all but destroyed. “Everything happened so quickly,” Maksimova told the Kyiv Independent the day after the attack.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Asami Terajima
SUMY — Valeriia Maksimova and her husband woke up to the first explosion in central Sumy at around 10 a.m. Their house was damaged by the blast wave. The 38-year-old rushed to the kitchen to start clearing the rubble when the second explosion struck, throwing her three meters away into the corridor. Their apartment was all but destroyed. “Everything happened so quickly,” Maksimova told the Kyiv Independent the day after the attack.
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2 weeks ago |
kyivindependent.com | Asami Terajima
New recruit Vitalii Yalovyi knew one thing after completing the Ukrainian military's boot camp: He was not prepared for war. The 37-year-old felt physically unfit, forcing him to miss some courses during the month-long training. His leg was still hurting from long daily walks at a training center in western Ukraine. But instead of getting an MRI scan after the training course as planned, he was taken on a bus, not knowing where he was heading. The "Welcome to Russia" road sign gave him a clue.
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Our deep dive into the key issues in Ukraine's training system that lead to irreversible losses on the battlefield, where manpower shortage remains critical. "(New soldiers) run out quickly, even before they get to the line of contact," one officer said. https://t.co/l6rb0eIFb3
RT @ChrisDYork: This week’s essential read - @AsamiTerajima takes you inside Ukraine’s desperate race to train more soldiers. https://t.co…
The elite Air Assault brigades, with experience from Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, demonstrated their level in the initial breakthrough, but over time, "the paratroopers turned into battered infantry," Yaroslav from Special Forces said. https://t.co/DJqJr7vxM9
