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Ukrainian officials reported Saturday "abnormally high" radiation in areas of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where they say Russian troops dug trenches and tried to build fortifications when they occupied the site until late last month . Why it mat

Russian troops took over Chernobyl on February 24, the first day of the invasion of Ukraine.The soldiers may have been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation,

Several BVP-1 infantry fighting vehicles and more than a dozen T-72 tanks were yesterday loaded on a train travelling from the Czech Republic to Ukraine, footage run by Czech Television showed.

A mass grave in the Ukrainian town of Bucha that may contain several hundred bodies has been spotted from space.

Ukraine's intelligence agency on Saturday said that two Russian soldiers have died and 28 others were placed in intensive care after being poisoned by Ukrainian civilians.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice party, said "we would be open" to the US stationing nuclear weapons in his nation, a neighbor to Ukraine.

After the massacre of civilians by Russians in Bucha, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has demanded that the Group of Seven immediately impose new devastating sanctions against Russia, Kuleba said this in a statement.

Vladimir Putin's repeatedly pre-announced goals for Ukraine, and for his invasion of Ukraine, consistently contained two main points: (1) to permanently block Ukrainian membership for Ukraine in the anti-Russian military alliance NATO; and

410 bodies of killed civilians have been recovered on the territory of the Kyiv region liberated from russian aggressors so far.

Ukraine is defending itself against russian aggression on its territory and should not be responsible for any events taking place on russian territory, the spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Oleksandr Motuzianyk said.

DTEK Group, Naftogaz and Ukrenergo have launched Stop Bloody Energy as a call on Western companies to stop all cooperation with russia in the fuel and energy sector. Its website highlights the gas, coal, oilfield services and engineering companies that are helping fund russia’s war and who are

russian troops have opened fire on a column of volunteer buses, which were driving towards Chernihiv for evacuation purposes, Parliament’s Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova said in a statement.

russians occupiers have already started raping minors and eating dogs, the Security Service of Ukraine reported.

The demilitarization of russia, carried out by the Ukrainian army and supported by the entire Ukrainian people, is in full swing, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Serhiy Kyslytsya was cited as saying.

This catastrophe became possible due to laziness, cowardice, and conformism of international institutions and organisations that have failed to effectively defend the principles of democracy, the rule of law, and human rights.

Ukrainians studying at Stanford and Massachusetts universities created the Don’t Fund War website, which will help boycott Western companies investing in the russian economy. The new project collects information on European and American companies that do not want to leave the russian market.

Patriarch Kirill, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, has lent a spiritual justification for the war in Ukraine.

“This is not an army, this is just a huge marauding gang that tortures, kills and rapes civilians,” the Ukrainian soldier said about the russian forces. The man admits that he is ashamed, because he allowed himself to believe in the power of the occupiers, but now considers them “second from the

Russia continued to dial-back its fiery war rhetoric this week with another top Kremlin official saying the country is not considering the use of nuclear weapons in its ongoing war in Ukraine and broader conflict with Europe. "No one is thinking about

I will admit upfront that I had no idea how extensive NATO's presence in Ukraine was until this week. I just had not paid attention. But Russia's blistering attacks on Yavoriv, Delyatyn, Mykolaiv and Zhytomyr have caught my eye. If you are not pay