While there are few mechanism to use the content of war crimes scenes as evidence in a court of law, journalists covering conflicts around the world have unique access to them. That’s what the Reckoning Project aims to change.
A survey conducted after two years of full-fledged war shows that Ukrainians are more unified than ever in rejecting Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ambitions for their country. Anxiety over future support from the international community, however, tempers their pride at successfully opposing a much larger adversary.
Countries engaged in war focus, winning the immediate battles over mitigating their negative environmental effects. Researchers are trying to better measure the environmental impacts of ongoing conflicts, but, as they say that there are substantial impacts in conflict zones ranging from Gaza to the Ukraine.
Over 6 million Ukrainians have fled their country due to war since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.Even as the war continues, Ukrainian officials are laying the groundwork to get those citizens back in Ukraine when the war ends.
Even far away from the front lines, there are significant implications to the debate over funding Ukraine’s war with Russia.VOA’s Kane Farabaugh has more on the impact of refugee resettlement in Chicago, the second-largest U.S. city for Ukrainian refugees who have fled the war.
Ukraine has used a range of strategies to repel Russian forces that are encroaching. The most recent one involves training dogs to accompany Ukrainian soldiers during their missions.
After their Kiev home was devastated by a Russian aerial attack on January 2, Lyudmyla Opanasenko and her husband are working to rebuild their lives. Lesia Bakalets of VOA met Lyudmyla in the Ukrainian capital to talk about her life now and plans for the future in the face of so much uncertainty.
A bomb shelter in the Kyiv region of Ukraine was constructed by school volunteers to resemble a house from the “The Hobbit” films. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion, the school was completely destroyed. The volunteers added the whimsical shelter for the students after they rebuilt it.
Volunteers from Ukraine have been forced to come up with an innovative way to convert used SUVs into casualty evacuation vehicles, or CASEVACS for short, in order to move wounded soldiers from far front lines to safety with limited resources.
For the first time in modern history, Ukraine observed Christmas on December 25 this year. The Russian invasion in early 2022 prompted the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church to abandon their celebration of Christmas on January 7 and adopt the Revised Julian calendar, which aligns Christmas with the Gregorian calendar used in the West.