🇺🇦 Independent Ukrainian media outlet founded by journalists on November 22, 2013, at the dawn of the Revolution of Dignity.
Support us: http://hromadske.ua/en/donate
hromadske
Loading...
When Oleksiy went to war, he left his fiancée, Alla, in the care of his mother. Four years on, the women are still waiting. Oleksiy is in a Russian prison, and his stepfather is missing in action. This story offers a glimpse into the lives of the families left behind, bonded by an agonizing wait.
On June 7, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy flew to the United Kingdom not via Poland's Rzeszów airport, as he usually does, but via Chisinau Airport in Moldova, European Pravda reported, citing data from FlightAware.
Russia isn't just holding Ukrainian POWs; it's convicting them. Oleksiy Zhernovskyi, an Azov fighter, has been "sentenced" twice by Russian courts, receiving a 28-year term for "terrorism." His projected release date? 2050. This tactic complicates exchanges and condemns soldiers to remote colonies.
How do children process the death of their peers in a country at war? After 9-year-old Stasyk was killed in a missile strike, his friend Zakhar had recurring dreams that Stasyk was still alive and going to school. "I had the feeling that I was dying too, not just him," the fourth-grader said.
Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a number of Russian military targets on June 4 and overnight into June 5, including command posts and troop clusters, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
The State Border Guard Service has not observed an increase in Russian troops in Belarus. At the same time, Russia is increasingly using Belarusian airspace to launch drones into Ukrainian territory, State Border Service spokesperson Andriy Demchenko told a briefing at the Media Center Ukraine.
A Russian drone strike on a gas station in Kherson Oblast resulted in one death and 11 injuries, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported.
The attack occurred around 1:10 p.m. in the Chornobaivka territorial community, igniting a gas module, the building, and four cars.
According to daily reports from the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia used 8,351 air attack weapons during massive attacks last month. By comparison, there were about 6,700 in April.
The intensity of enemy attacks has remained at record levels for several months in a row.
Ukraine’s air defense system increased its effectiveness in intercepting Russian drones and missiles in May, despite the growing intensity of attacks, the Defense Ministry reported.
