Ukrainian soldiers and shopkeepers hold on as Russia's siege of Pokrovsk tightens toggle caption Anton Shtuka for NPR POKROVSK, Ukraine — In the final hours of 2024, the embattled Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk suddenly went dark. toggle caption Anton Shtuka for NPR It's unclear how many soldiers Ukraine's forces have lost defending the city. toggle caption Anton Shtuka for NPR …
CHERNIHIV, Ukraine — In a Ukrainian hospital ward for wounded soldiers, where daylight barely penetrates, a father talks to his injured son for hours. “I’ve been constantly with him in the last five months, beside him, beside him, beside him,” says Serhii, a retired former soldier himself. You will manage!” Serhii says tears roll down Vitalii’s cheeks when he reads …
On a mild Saturday morning in May, Anatolii Garagatyi woke early and headed into his back garden. Anatolii Garagatyi was taken from his village in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine to a police station where he says he was tortured by Russian soldiers. "In these places, people with pro-Ukrainian views were brought here," says Serhii Bolvinov, chief investigator of …
Within days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, soldiers claimed Serhii Tepliuk's small village. A doctor's nightmare confronting the 'worst' wounds One of the senior doctors at the Brovary Central Hospital, close to Bohdanivka, said that in the last six weeks he has "seen the worst wounds in my 20-year career". "The war wounds will continue for years … the wounds …
