LONDON — The small English village that Viktoria Kovalenko now calls home is peaceful, sleepy — a far cry from the fighting in Ukraine that killed her family in one horrific, unexpected blow. “It is impossible to cure.” Kovalenko, 34, saw her husband Petro and 12-year-old daughter Veronika die in northern Ukraine last March when a shell hit their car. …
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There is a place reserved in Ukraine for Russia's hapless soldiers. Located in the north-western Lviv region, the ABC has been given a rare — and tightly controlled — look inside Ukraine's central prisoner of war camp. 'We dream of war at night all the time' Russian soldier Nikita, 21, lost both his legs when he stepped on a landmine …
It’s 10:00 AM on Saturday and English professor Matthew Kenenitz is sitting at a pierogi cafe in rural Pennsylvania making video calls on Whatsapp, trying to reach his teenage students in Ukraine. Third generation Ukrainian Matthew Kenenitz takes a video call from a student in Lviv, Ukraine who is trapped there following the Russian invasion Alex Duda-Holoviak, 13, says he …
Russia and the US are facing off in what's been described as the most serious geopolitical conflict since the end of the Cold War. Ukraine's former president Petro Poroshenko tells 7.30 no-one should trust Russian President Vladimir Putin, nor should they be afraid of his "blackmail" attempts. Mr Zelenskyy and his government have publicly talked down the possibility of a …