Stop War In Ukraine, Kyiv (2025)

18/04/2022

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At least five people were killed and 13 wounded in Russian shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, on Sunday, regional officials said.
The barrage slammed into apartment buildings and left the streets scattered with broken glass and other debris, including part of at least one rocket.
Firefighters and residents scrambled to douse flames in several apartments, while medics and Ukrainian servicemen tried to help injured people in the street.
The northeastern city of Kharkiv has been a target of attacks since the early days of Russia's invasion and has seen conditions deteriorate ahead of the looming eastern offensive.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy estimated that 2,500 to 3,000 Ukrainian troops have died in the war.
Amid the fighting, Zelenskyy spoke in his nightly address about Ukraine's plans for a memorial "to remind all generations of our people of the brutal and senseless invasion Ukraine has been able to fend off."
Pope Francis made an anguished Easter Sunday plea for peace in the "senseless" war in Ukraine.
"May there be peace for war-torn Ukraine, so sorely tried by the violence and destruction of this cruel and senseless war into which it was dragged," Francis said.

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18/04/2022

Russian missiles strikes hit Lviv this morning, killing at least six people, the regional governor has said.⁠
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“At the moment we are able to confirm that six are dead and eight injured. A child was among the victims,” Maksym Kozytsky said on social media.⁠
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He said that there were four strikes, with three hitting military infrastructure facilities and one striking a tyre shop, and that the child was among the injured.⁠
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The city in the west of Ukraine, close to the Polish border, has largely been spared from shelling since Russia invaded nearly two months ago and has become a place of refuge for those fleeing the war.⁠
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“Five powerful missile strikes at once on the civilian infrastructure of the old European city of Lviv,” Mykhaylo Podolyak, a presidential aide, wrote on Twitter. ⁠
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“The Russians continue barbarically attacking Ukrainian cities from the air, cynically declaring to the whole world their ‘right’ to kill Ukrainians.”⁠
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18/04/2022

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought a level of civic destruction not seen in Europe since the Second World War. The Kremlin’s attempt to break Ukraine by any means necessary has resulted in the damage and demolition of homes, churches, hospitals and schools across the country.⁠
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Ukraine’s ministry of economy estimates that almost £100 billion of damage has already been inflicted to civilian buildings and infrastructure. ⁠
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➡️ Swipe to see how Ukraine’s cities have changed in less than two months of war⁠

18/04/2022

Russia-Ukraine war: latest in pictures 📸⁠

1️⃣ A view of new rows of graves for people killed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at a cemetery in Irpin, Ukraine, April 18, 2022.⁠
📸 Reuters/ Zohra Bensemra
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2️⃣ Bodies are exhumed from a mass-grave in the grounds of the St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints church in the Ukrainian town of Bucha⁠
📸 Sergei Supinsky/ AFP⁠
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3️⃣ Service members of pro-Russian troops walk in the street during fighting in Mariupol⁠
📸 Reuters/ Alexander Ermochenko⁠
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4️⃣ Emergency workers carry the body of local resident Sergiy, 41, from his destroyed apartment, following an artillery attack in Kharkiv,⁠
📸 Reuters/ Alkis Konstantinidis⁠

5️⃣ A woman reacts as she hugs another woman outside a heavily damaged apartment block, following an artillery attack in Kharkiv⁠
📸 Reuters/ Alkis Konstantinidis ⁠

13/04/2022

A mother killed by a sniper while walking with her family to fetch a thermos of tea. A woman held as a s*x slave, naked except for a fur coat and locked in a potato cellar before being executed. Two sisters dead in their home, their bodies left slumped on the floor for weeks.

Bucha is a landscape of horrors.

From the first day of the war, Feb. 24, civilians bore the brunt of the Russian assault on Bucha, a few miles west of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. Russian special forces approaching on foot through the woods shot at cars on the road, and a column of armored vehicles fired on and killed a woman in her garden as they drove into the suburb.

But those early cruelties paled in comparison to what came after.

As the Russian advance on Kyiv stalled in the face of fierce resistance, civilians said, the enemy occupation of Bucha slid into a campaign of terror and revenge. When a defeated and demoralized Russian Army finally retreated, it left behind a grim tableau: bodies of dead civilians strewn on streets, in basements or in backyards, many with gunshot wounds to their heads, some with their hands tied behind their backs.

Reporters and photographers for The New York Times spent more than a week with city officials, coroners and scores of witnesses in Bucha, uncovering new details of execution-style atrocities against civilians.

The Times documented the bodies of almost three dozen people where they were killed — in their homes, in the woods, set on fire in a vacant parking lot — and learned the story behind many of their deaths. The Times also witnessed more than 100 body bags at a communal grave and the city’s cemetery.

The evidence suggests the Russians killed recklessly and sometimes sadistically, in part out of revenge.

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13/04/2022

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a house after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 11, 2022.

Rescue workers in Kharkiv battled to control fires as the city came under attack from Russian shelling on Monday afternoon.

At least five people were killed, including a child, according to the Associated Press journalists filming the events.

Oleh Synyehubov, the regional governor of Kharkiv, said earlier Monday that Russian shelling had killed 11 people over the last 24 hours.

Western military analysts say Russia's attacks in Ukraine is focusing on an arc of territory stretching from Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, in the north, to Kherson in the south.

The next phase of battle is expected to be a showdown in eastern Ukraine.

The outcome could determine the course of the conflict, which has flattened cities and killed untold thousands of people.

Questions remain about the ability of Russia's depleted and demoralised forces to conquer much ground after their advance on the capital, Kyiv, was repelled by determined Ukrainian defenders.

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12/04/2022

The Russians rolled into Yahidne, a small farming village just south of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, shortly after 4pm on March 3rd. The weeks that followed may not be forgotten for centuries. ⁠
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At least 20 villagers died during 28 days of occupation. Six were shot in highly suspicious circumstances. A father and his 12-year-old daughter were gunned down as they tried to escape; the weapons used were so powerful they severed the girl’s head. ⁠
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Another dozen died from suffocation in a basement in the local school. They were locked in there, along with the entire village, as human shields to protect a massive Russian army camp above ground during the whole period.⁠
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12/04/2022

In Bucha, Ukraine, an abandoned van displays a sign for “дети” — the Russian word for “children.” Soldiers sprayed the vehicle with bullets despite the plea from drivers not to shoot.

The van is one of several cars sitting in a makeshift parking lot for deserted vehicles. Many Ukrainian families attempted to flee Bucha by car, only to be stopped by Russian forces.

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12/04/2022

A culture of violence pervades the invading army. As Russia’s “liberators” have retreated from Kyiv back towards the Belarusian border, they have left a landscape of atrocities.⁠
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Terror, torture and murder have been Russian military tactics for as long as Vladimir Putin has been in power.⁠
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Swipe through this carousel to read a summary of the war in Ukraine, which is now in its sixth week.⁠
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Photo credits: AP; EPA; Getty Images
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10/04/2022

The girl lay on a metal gurney. Her face turned to the side, eyes closed, her blonde hair tied back in a ponytail. She was dressed in a shiny blue coat and black trousers. Her feet, in white trainers, with the laces neatly done up, stuck out of the sheet that half-covered her, here at the end of her life in a bone-cold morgue in eastern Ukraine.⁠
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She was 12 and had been killed nine hours earlier by a Russian ballistic missile carrying cluster munitions that tore through a crowd of thousands of civilians, most of them older people, women and children, at Kramatorsk railway station as they tried to board trains heading west.⁠
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They had flocked there from towns and villages around the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, following calls from officials to evacuate ahead of an expected Russian offensive. The trains, they had hoped, would take them to safety.⁠
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Instead, they were slaughtered where they stood, bags in their hands, tickets at the ready. Officials said 52 people were killed, eight of them children, among them the girl. ⁠
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No one at the hospital knew where her family was.⁠
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“She was alive when she came in,” said Valentina Sukhonos, a nurse at the hospital, as she stood looking down on her. “She came with a woman, I don’t know if it was her mother.”⁠
Gently, four volunteers lifted the girl into a black plastic body bag and zipped her inside it. ⁠
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They carried her to a van and laid her inside with the bodies of seven others who had also died at the hospital.⁠
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1. The body of a young girl killed in the strike lies in a hospital morgue.⁠
2. A stuffed toy covered in blood lies on the floor outside the station.⁠
3. Dozens of people have been confirmed killed, with many more injured.⁠
4. Tochka-U rocket used at Kramatorsk railway station, daubed with “for the children”⁠
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10/04/2022

Mayor Olha Sukhenko took care of her village of Motyzhyn outside Kyiv for more than a decade, sprucing up public buildings, organizing concerts and settling disputes. ⁠
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During Russia’s invasion, she and her family helped townspeople resist the occupation. They paid for it with their lives.⁠
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At the start of the war, Motyzhyn’s population swelled by thousands as many Kyiv residents thought they would be safer in the countryside than the capital. But the war came quickly to the village, with more than 100 Russian army vehicles sweeping through its quiet, single-lane streets three days after Russia invaded.⁠
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“There are foreign bastards in our village,” Mayor Sukhenko posted on her page on the day they arrived. “Take care. Don’t leave your homes. Keep calm.”⁠
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During their occupation, many villagers say they relied on food and medication brought personally by the mayor or family members. She arranged deliveries from unoccupied areas and took milk to children in a nearby village. At the start of March, she organized a convoy of civilians to evacuate the town.⁠
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Sukhenko also took on a riskier role: helping pass information on Russian troop locations and movements to the Ukrainian army. “It is dangerous for everyone, but someone needs to do it,” said Mykola Kurach, the head of the village’s volunteer defense forces, who moved in with the Sukhenkos after his house was damaged by shelling.⁠
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After the Russians came under attack from Ukrainian artillery and ambush teams, the Russian aggression against locals surged, residents say.⁠
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10/04/2022

Experts investigated the part of bodies in Bucha.

The time of the death was appropriate to the time of the occupation of Bucha by Russian militaries.

Shrapnel damage because of artillery fire - about 12%

Bullet wounds -75%

In all cases, the binding of hands was intravital, not after the death.
Some of the bodies have traces of torture and beating.

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08/04/2022

A missile strike at a crowded train station in eastern Ukraine on Friday killed at least 50 people and wounded nearly 100, according to Ukrainian officials, who blamed Russia for hitting a major evacuation point for the many people trying to flee before an expected stepped-up offensive.

Platforms at the station, in the city of Kramatorsk, had been jammed in recent days with people rushing to safer areas in Ukraine’s west, and officials said there were about 4,000 people at the railway station at the time of the strike.

Photos provided by Ukrainian officials of the aftermath showed people splayed on the ground, surrounded by scattered luggage and debris. In a video from the scene, a woman screams, “There are so many corpses, there are children, there are just children!”

Photo by Fadel Senna/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

08/04/2022

Halyna Tolochina stands in front of a wall inscribed with the names of people who died inside a school basement in the village of Yahidne, Ukraine, April 6, 2022. Tolochina, a member of the village council, struggled to compose herself as she went through the list, scribbled in black on the plaster either side of a green door. To the left of the door were scrawled the seven names of people killed by Russian soldiers. To the right were the 10 names of people who died because of the harsh conditions in the basement, she said. "This old man died first," Tolochina said, pointing at the name of Muzyka D., for Dmytro Muzyka, whose death was recorded on March 9. 📷

08/04/2022

Traffic stretched for miles around Bucha, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital, on Thursday as families attempted to return home.

Most of the families had been unable to make the journey since fleeing Russia’s occupation of the city, and many feared what they would find on returning to their hometown — whose name has become been synonymous with the darkest chapter yet in this war.

Investigators surveyed the city’s streets for signs of the war crimes that Russian forces appear to have committed on a grand scale. They found evidence of torture before death, beheading and dismemberment and the intentional burning of corpses.

Video reporter Joyce Koh () shows us more from her visit to Bucha.

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08/04/2022

1️⃣ Serhii Lahovskyi, 26, mourns next to the grave of his friend Ihor Lytvynenko, who according to residents was killed by Russian soldiers in Bucha, Ukraine, April 6, 2022.
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2️⃣ A Ukrainian serviceman stands amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv⁠
📸 Felipe Dana/AP⁠

⁠3️⃣ The mother of Lubomyr Hudzeliak, a Ukrainian soldier, mourns over his flag-draped coffin during his funeral at the Lychakiv cemetery⁠
📸 Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP ⁠

4️⃣ Cars with humanitarian aid cross the ruined bridge over the Irpin River in Hostomel, Kyiv⁠
📸 Oleg Petrasy/EPA⁠
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06/04/2022

The killing of Olha Sukhenko, alongside her husband and son, has only increased a village’s determination to tell Russian invaders: We will never be slaves

The 50-year-old mayor held together her central Ukrainian village, Motyzhyn, which was close to the fighting and cut off from help

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06/04/2022

Newly released satellite images appear to show dead bodies of civilians on the streets of Bucha in Ukraine weeks ago, contradicting Moscow’s claims that the bodies were placed there after their troops withdrew.

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