According to Ukrainian officials, around 16,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly transferred to Russia or territories in Ukraine that are under Russian control. Only 324, including Olena Dudnik’s son Andriy, had been returned as of March 24.
While many Ukrainian refugees have been welcomed by Europe and the US, many of them are currently residing in Israel without a formal refugee status and are so living in a state of legal limbo.
The ninth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea is in March. During the invasion of the peninsula by Russian forces, many Crimean Tatars were forced to leave their homes, including Ernest Suleimanov and his family. They left for Warsaw and opened a restaurant there called Crimea in front of the Polish embassy for Russia.
Most of the front lines in the Ukrainian war are different, despite the fact that the world has seen images of house-to-house combat in Bakhmut. The tiresome process of waiting for orders or an enemy attack wears soldiers out as they dig themselves into trenches or hide under the cover of trees.
Two Ukrainian w.omen, senior combat medic Anna Olsen and volunteer Lyudmila Huseynova, were imprisoned both in Russia and on Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia. To share their experiences and issue a call to action, they came to the United States
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Novgorodske, a typical industrial city in the Donbas, became even poorer. Residents of the city chose to alter the city’s name to New York as the war approached in order to attract help and money from the West. Yet the investments and visitors never came
One of the first places that Russian soldiers took control of after invading Ukraine on February 24, 2022, was the village of Khotin in the Sumy region. The villagers recall watching Russian troops and tanks enter the village on their way to Kiev.
Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine, is only 30 kilometres from the Russian border. The city suffered major damage but never fell while it was under siege by Russian forces for more than six months. Meanwhile, Russians are again gathering soldiers across the brder. The city is experiencing an increase in ballistic missile attacks, and Kharkiv is reinforcing its defences.
Since Russian forces launched a new offensive for control of the industrial Donbas region at the end of January, Kupiansk in northeastern Ukraine has been the target of regular bombings. For Russia to have complete control over Ukraine’s east, Kupiansk, in the Kharkiv oblast, is essential.
One year after Russia began its full-scale attack on Ukraine, Ukrainians and their supporters marched in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday. Almost a million Ukrainian refugees live in Poland.