Ukrainian defender Valeria Subotina, subjected to 11 months in Russian captivity, revealed in the UK newspaper The Guardian on Dec. 21 the harrowing experiences of physical, moral, and psychological abuse she endured alongside her fellow military personnel.
Ukrainian special forces landed in Russian-occupied Crimea and conducted a combat operation, Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) announced via a video published online on Oct. 4. The video shows special forces using boats to land on a beach at night, where they unfurl a Ukrainian flag with the HUR emblem.
At least five people have been injured as of 10:20 p.m. local time in a Russian strike on the city of Dnipro that damaged a high-rise apartment building on the evening of July 28. Mayor Borys Filatov reported that no one has been killed.
The explosion that killed over 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war held by Russia in the Olenivka prison last year was caused by a thermobaric munition, the Prosecutor General's Office told Ukrinform on July 28.
were new recruits in the border gaurd. after russia attacked mariupol in february, alina joined other ukrainian military personnel in the azovstal steelworks. all singing. in this video taken in april, alina and her colleagues are sheltering in a bunker at the steelworks. there was huge russian bombardment for over a month. three weeks later, russia captured mariupol and ukrainian soldiers were forced to surrender. they boarded russian buses and lost connection with the world. alina disappeared forfive months, but she managed to survive. translation: the buses drove us i towards donetsk in occupied ukraine. we were taken to olenivka prison. we spent four and a half months there. then we were taken to russia. she was in olenivka prison during a deadly explosion, which took the lives of dozens of ukrainians.