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For many Ukrainians, staying online has been daunting as Russia attacks telecoms and power supplies, but some people, like Oleg Kutkov, a software and communications engineer, are testing out a new way to stay connected. In a FaceTime interview with VOA Mandarin from Kyiv, Kutkov held up the components of the two-part terminal needed to …
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Demonstrations are taking place in many locations across Russia on Sunday to protest Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine with nearly 300 detained by police so far. OVD-Info, which monitors arrests during protests, said police had detained 292 people during demonstrations in 25 Russian cities. An AFP journalist present at a protest in the capital Moscow …
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One of Ukraine’s biggest military training bases, located 25 kilometers from the Polish border in the west of the country, was struck by Russian missiles in an attack that left 35 people dead and 134 others injured, according to Ukrainian officials. The base at Yavoriv is only 60 kilometers from Lviv, a major hub for …
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Turkey and Armenia have pledged to pursue the normalization of ties in what the Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu described as a “productive and constructive” meeting on Saturday. After talks with his Armenian counterpart, Ararat Mirzoyan, Cavusoglu said that Azerbaijan also “supports the process” of normalization. Armenia and Turkey have no diplomatic relations, a closed …
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Britain will pay people to open their homes to Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion as the government moves to deflect anger over its response to the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. The new program called “Homes for Ukraine” will let refugees from the war come to Britain even if they do …
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A tank emblazoned with a giant Z backs up clumsily in the besieged city of Mariupol, crashing into destroyed buses before letting loose a shell. Ukrainian fighters later destroyed it, notching up one small victory. An Associated Press journalist witnessed tanks firing on a nine-story apartment block and was among a group of medical workers …
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One man was detained in Poland suspected of raping a 19-year-old refugee he’d lured with offers of shelter after she fled war-torn Ukraine. Another was overheard promising work and a room to a 16-year-old girl before authorities intervened. Another case inside a refugee camp at Poland’s Medyka border, raised suspicions when a man was offering …
Read more “Concern Grows Over Traffickers Targeting Ukrainian Refugees”
The clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Dutch city of Amsterdam, announced Saturday it was splitting from the Moscow church because of threats to them over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a statement posted to its website it said that after a meeting, “the clergy unanimously announced that it is no longer possible …
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The United States on Saturday said it would rush up to $200 million in additional small arms, anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons to Ukraine, as Ukrainian officials pleaded for more equipment to defend against heavy shelling by Russian forces. U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday authorized the additional security assistance, the White House said, paving the …
The Ukrainian nuclear power plants at Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia, both now under the control of Russian forces, are being run and managed by their Ukrainian staff, Russia’s atomic energy agency Rosatom said Saturday, according to the RIA news agency. Rosatom’s statement said an external power supply was being restored to the defunct Chernobyl plant, site …
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Eastern European countries are embracing the millions of Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion as a potential workforce, but analysts warn it will be challenging to integrate them all. At least 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine, according to the United Nations, which calls it Europe’s fastest-growing refugee crisis since World War II. More than half are …
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Russian engineers have arrived to measure radiation at a Ukrainian nuclear plant, the seizure of which during Moscow’s invasion of the country sparked international alarm, officials said. Russia occupied Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s biggest atomic power plant, after its forces attacked it on March 4. Its reactors appeared undamaged after the assault despite a fire that broke …
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The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, has launched a huge relief operation to aid and protect millions of Ukrainians displaced by the Russian invasion, both inside Ukraine and as refugees in neighboring countries. Latest U.N. estimates find at least 2 million people are displaced inside Ukraine, and more than 2.5 million refugees are sheltering in neighboring …
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Members of the Ukrainian community in Australia hold daily protests and raise funds as they stand in solidarity with compatriots under attack by Russian forces. Since the invasion, St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Sydney has become a beacon of prayer and pride. Most members of the congregation have friends and family living in Ukraine. …
Read more “Ukrainian Diaspora in Australia Rallies for Compatriots Under Attack”
Finland’s much-delayed Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor started test production on Saturday, operator TVO said, delivering power to the national grid, which over time is expected to reduce the need for electricity imports and lead to lower prices. Plagued by technological problems that became the subject of lawsuits, the 1.6 gigawatt (GW) reactor had originally been …
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Italian police have seized a superyacht from Russian billionaire Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko, the prime minister’s office said on Saturday, a few days after the businessman was placed on an EU sanctions list following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The 143-meter Sailing Yacht A, which has a price tag of $578 million, has been sequestered at the …
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Western sanctions against Russia could cause the International Space Station to crash, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos warned Saturday, calling for the punitive measures to be lifted. According to Dmitry Rogozin, the sanctions, some of which predate Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, could disrupt the operation of Russian spacecraft servicing the ISS. As a …
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Up to the final hours before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, former chancellor Angela Merkel had been touted as the person favored by Germans to try to talk President Vladimir Putin out of the conflict. But as Russian bombs fell on Ukrainian cities, a shadow has fallen on Merkel’s 16 years in office, with …
Read more “Clouds Over Merkel’s Legacy as Russian Invasion Lays Flaws Bare”
When Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis took the floor in a parliament debate on Ukraine this month, there was no doubt which side his government was taking in the conflict. “There can be no equal distances. You are either with peace and international law, or against them,” he told lawmakers, after announcing a shipment of …
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After almost eight hours sitting in a police station and court, Vera Kotova became one of the first people to be judged and fined just under $240 under a new Russian law to punish anyone deemed to have discredited the armed forces. Her crime was writing “No to war” accompanied by a heart in the …
Read more “Fines, Fear, Self-censorship: Russia’s New Ukraine Law Casts Chill”
An Istanbul court on Friday sentenced Turkish journalist Sedef Kabas to more than two years in prison for insulting the president. Kabas has been in pretrial detention since late January over comments she made about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a political talk show. She is now released pending the outcome of her appeal. The freelance …