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How Ukrainians Saved Their Capital

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When the Hospitallers asked whether anyone else was living in her house, she said that she was alone.

“You know who will be in your house?” August said. “The Russians, that’s who. What will you do then?”

The woman was unmoved: “I’m eighty-two years old. I hope you live as long as me.”

Her friend was already gone. More vehicles were pulling up. “Bring her back,” August told the driver. “We have other people to help.”

The van turned again

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Boris Johnson condemns Russia’s ‘despicable attacks’ on Ukrainians in Bucha and Irpin 

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Moscow was accused of genocide last night after retreating Russian forces left behind horrific evidence of rapes, civilian executions and mass graves.

The barbarity of Vladimir Putin’s soldiers was compared to the atrocities of the Nazis and Stalin’s Great Terror as the horrors of Second World War returned to Europe.

Ukrainian prosecutors said they had found 410 bodies in towns near the capital Kyiv. They said some witnesses were too traumatised to speak.

Two mass graves were discovered in Bucha,

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Starving Ukrainians resort to ‘attacking each other for food’ in besieged Mariupol, Red Cross reveal

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Bodies are piling up on the streets of Mariupol where starving Ukrainians have resorted to fighting each other for food in the desperate conditions in the besieged port city.

Residents have been sheltering for days without food, water and power in below freezing weather amid constant bombardment from Putin’s forces, which saw a maternity hospital shelled yesterday, killing three people including a six-year-old girl.

This is despite Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov claiming that all women and nurses were evacuated

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Ukrainians run as Russian bombs rain on Irpin while ceasefire to protect 400k civilians shattered

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Devastating images and videos have laid bare the horror of Vladimir Putin’s lawless invasion of Ukraine, as Russian troops unleash heavy gunfire and missiles on local residents.

Heartbreaking footage, taken in Irpin, located on the outskirts of the besieged capital city Kyiv, confirmed that Russian forces are attacking heavily populated civilian areas where men, women and children are leaving the country as the Russian tyrant continues denying bombing Ukrainian cities. 

One image depicted a mother and her two children lying

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Ukraine war: Zelensky tells Ukrainians to keep shooting if they can

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Volodymyr Zelensky has urged Ukrainians to continue fighting Vladimir Putin’s forces following allegations that Russian troops are shelling Mariupol despite agreeing a ceasefire to allow hundreds of thousands of civilians to escape the strategic port city. 

In a defiant address on Saturday, the comic-turned-war leader ordered ‘those who can’ to keep attacking Kremlin troops as more than 200,000 civilians in Mariupol and the town of Volnovakha in the country’s east are given five hours to evacuate west to Zaporizhzhia.

Addressing

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Putin’s innocent victims: Bloodied Ukrainians stagger through rubble in shocking images

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Heartbreaking images from Ukraine have emerged showing bloodied civilians staggering through the streets despite Russian President Vladimir Putin claiming he declared war to ‘protect civilians’ after ordering an all out invasion this morning. 

Russia today launched simultaneous attacks coming from south, east and north, by land and by air, killing at least 40 civilians by midday including a young boy in an apartment block in Kharkiv, Ukrainian authorities said.

Other civilians were also injured and some others are believed to

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Ukrainians ‘will be rounded up in internment camps’ as part of Putin’s invasion plan

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Russia today sent nuclear-capable bombers on patrol as details of Vladimir Putin’s alleged plan to overthrow the Ukrainian government after a full-scale invasion emerged in the German media.  

The report, originating from a foreign secret service source, outlines President Putin’s three-step plan to bring Ukraine under a new ‘union state’ including Russia and Belarus, with Moscow as the centre of control.

Perhaps the most concerning detail of the report is the Kremlin’s ‘Step Three’, which according to Bild would see

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