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1 week ago | 
thetimes.com | Marc Bennetts |Kateryna Malofieieva
The Ukrainian fortifications stretched away across the green and golden fields, the barbed wire and anti-tank traps contrasting starkly with the calm, almost idyllic countryside. A short distance away was the huge welcome sign to the Donetsk region, a landmark that has been transformed by Ukraine’s soldiers into a sombre memorial to the defence of their country. “Only the dead have seen the end of war,” read one message, written on a flag.
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1 week ago | 
thetimes.com | Marc Bennetts |Kateryna Malofieieva
It was just a few hours after Kateryna had given birth to her first child when the boom of anti-aircraft guns and the distinctive buzzing of Russian attack drones filled the night air in Sloviansk, a city in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. As explosions echoed outside the maternity ward, Kateryna held her baby girl in her arms, the reality of modern warfare casting a sudden shadow over her obvious joy at motherhood.
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1 week ago | 
kpbs.org | Eleanor Beardsley |Kateryna Malofieieva
KYIV, Ukraine — Ivan Sarancha was 7 when Ukrainian literature and history classes disappeared from his school. That was in 2014 after Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea and began to foment separatist unrest in his eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. Sarancha says he was too young to realize what was going on back then. But his eyes were fully opened with Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine eight years later. By then Sarancha was 15.
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1 month ago | 
thetimes.com | Marc Bennetts |Tom Ball |Kateryna Malofieieva
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1 month ago | 
thetimes.com | Marc Bennetts |Tom Ball |Kateryna Malofieieva
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Matteo Fagotto |Manisha Ganguly |Philip McMahon |Andrew Roth |Oliver Laughland | +3 more
This week we are revisiting the Black Box series. This episode was first broadcast on 7 March 2024. For the past six months, the Guardian journalist Michael Safi has been trying to find out who is behind an AI company that creates deepfakes. These deepfakes are causing havoc around the world, with police and lawmakers baffled about how to deal with them. And in trying to answer one question, he has been left with a bigger one: is AI going to make it impossible to sort fact from fiction?
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Kateryna Malofieieva
Doting on her young cancer patients, Dr Svitlana Lukianchyk, 30, was just finishing her Monday morning rounds at the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv when four heavily armed Russian strategic bombers took off from their base at Olenya on the Baltic Sea, some 1,200 miles away, at 9.52am. A second flight of four Tu-95MS soon followed from Engels airbase near the Volga river, also carrying a payload of Kh-101 cruise missiles.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Marc Bennetts |Kateryna Malofieieva |Zaporizhzhia region
A Russian drone dropped the grenade into the Ukrainian trench at dawn and a cloud of toxic smoke spread swiftly among the troops. Fearing a chemical attack, the soldiers scrambled to put on their gas masks, but not everyone managed to do so before they were overpowered by the choking fumes.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
kuow.org | Joanna Kakissis |Kateryna Malofieieva |Polina Lytvynova
Editor's note: This story contains descriptions of casualties in missile attacks. KYIV and LVIV, Ukraine — A barrage of Russian missiles hit Ukrainian cities Monday, killing at least 36 people and injuring more than 149, and destroying a large children’s hospital in Kyiv, the state emergency service said. “We thought this was our bastion of security, that this couldn’t happen here,” Khrystyna Korvach, a 29-year-old anesthesiologist at the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital, told NPR.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Marc Bennetts |Kateryna Malofieieva
Ukraine will struggle to drive out Russia’s invading army without sweeping changes to rid its military of Soviet-style generals who are coldly indifferent to the lives of ordinary soldiers, a prominent MP has said. “I’m fighting for changes in this culture to help us achieve victory,” Mariana Bezuhla, the outspoken deputy head of the Ukrainian parliament’s defence and security committee, told The Times in Kyiv.
