Kateryna Denisova

6 days ago | rsn.org | Tim Zadorozhnyy |Kateryna Denisova

Russia is using the return of war dead as a tool for manipulation to obscure the scale of its military losses from the public, President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a briefing on June 20 attended by the Kyiv Independent. According to Zelensky, Ukrainian authorities have confirmed that at least 20 of the bodies Russia returned as Ukrainian were actually Russian soldiers. "Sometimes these bodies even have Russian passports," Zelensky said.

1 week ago | kyivindependent.com | Kateryna Denisova

Sitting a few meters from the rubble of what used to be a nondescript nine-story residential building in Kyiv, Lilia rises to her feet every time another pile of debris is cleared from the site targeted by Russia during a mass overnight attack on June 17. "We are waiting (as everyone) for the same thing," says Victoria Smirnova, 37, Lilia's mother-in-law, seated nearby.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Kateryna Denisova |Natalia Yermak

Sitting a few meters from the rubble of what used to be a nondescript nine-story residential building in Kyiv, Lilia rises to her feet every time another pile of debris is cleared from the site targeted by Russia during a mass overnight attack on June 17. "We are waiting (as everyone) for the same thing," says Victoria Smirnova, 37, Lilia's mother-in-law, seated nearby.

1 week ago | kyivindependent.com | Kateryna Denisova

Russian forces have intensified offensive operations across multiple front-line areas, said Victor Tregubov, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Khortytsia group of forces, on June 16. According to Tregubov, Russian troops have ramped up attacks, particularly in the Novopavlivka and Kharkiv sectors, which is an unusual development for these areas. Ukraine’s General Staff reported that Russian forces launched attacks in 12 directions, resulting in 99 recorded clashes.

1 week ago | kyivindependent.com | Kateryna Denisova

Russia has handed Kyiv the bodies of its own soldiers mixed in with those of Ukrainian soldiers during recent repatriation of the fallen, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on June 16. Klymenko's statement follows the completion of an exchange between Ukraine and Russia of the remains of soldiers killed in action earlier the same day, under agreements reached during recent peace talks in Istanbul. Kyiv returned a total of 6,057 bodies.