Exclusive. Vika Mats, aged 10, and her mother Liana, 36, are stuck underground again in a Metro station after a terrifying day and night of rocket bombardments from advancing Russian forces in north-east Ukraine. They had enjoyed a few days of sunlight when Ukrainian troops pushed the Russian forces back toward their border and out of […]
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It was a strange but almost comical scene. A dog was running towards me across Kyiv’s central landmark, Independence Square. And trying with some difficulty to restrain the animal, on a long lead, was the dog’s new master, 26-year-old Sviatoslav Yurash, Ukraine’s youngest member of parliament. He had been driven from Kyiv to Bucha just […]
“I’m being bombed by my own bombs,” an elderly long-retired Ukrainian engineer complains… 14-year-old boy refugee on train from Polish border town Przmishyl to Krakow: “My cat came with us. She is part of the family.”
Exclusive from Kyiv, Ukraine Amid the images of destruction inflicted by continued Russian attacks on a sovereign nation, Ukrainian television showed far less grim pictures this week. People were smiling again — generally very happy to be queuing up in the streets again. Thousands of eager locals stood since the very early hours at post offices […]
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Exclusive from Bucha, Ukraine. Oleksii Tolkachov, 39, is delivering aid to people without food, electricity and heating in Bucha and Irpin, the until-recently Russian-occupied satellite towns north of Kyiv. They are both now ignominious worldwide symbols of the invaders’ ruthless destruction. Before we drive in, we pull up at the first of several destroyed tanks. […]
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service says Western governments are “accomplices to the inhuman crimes of Ukrainian neo-Nazis” in torturing captured Russian soldiers and depriving them of adequate food and medical treatment. It also claims to have “reliable data that after the publication of shocking videos with the torture of captured Russian servicemen in Ukraine, the nationalist […]
DIRECTOR OF THE RUSSIAN FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE SERGEI NARYSHKIN ON THE ‘SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION’ IN UKRAINE
Russia’s intelligence service (the SVR) has claimed ISIS prisoners previously held in the Kurdish-controlled north-east Syria have been sent to Ukraine to sabotage Russian forces there. It says America, Britain, France and other countries’ are using Poland as the hub for final training before the ISIS members infiltrate across the border. The SVR claimed: “At […]