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Despite Russian fire, Ukrainian medics near Bakhmut try to stabilize wounded soldiers so they can be transported to hospitals in safer areas. They manage to treat multiple injuries at once, but not every casualty can be saved. "The hardest moment is when you can't help a soldier," said one medic.
Members of Belarus's opposition in exile gathered in central Vilnius on April 26 for an annual commemoration of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in 1986. This time, they voiced their protest against Russian plans to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus.
Jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny says a new probe has been launched against him, this time on a charge of terrorism, and that he will be tried on the "absurd" charge by a military court.
Moscow is expelling a Moldovan diplomat and banning the entry of several Moldovan officials in retaliation after Chisinau declared a Russian Embassy staffer persona non grata.
Svitlana, a refugee from Ukraine, weaves camouflage nets for the soldiers back home alongside volunteers from Estonia. More than 1,000 square meters of mesh have been woven in her improvised workshop. Svitlana, says people come here to help so refugees can one day return to Ukraine.
In an interview with RFE/RL and Current Time on April 21 in Ramstein, Germany, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that based on how much Ukrainian forces have managed to date with limited resources and given NATO’s current level of assistance, he is sure “Ukraine will be successful.”
A year ago, 12-year-old Oleksandr Radchuk was separated from his mother and younger sister by the Russian military in occupied Mariupol. Saved from a Russian orphanage by his grandmother, who took him to Ukrainian-held territory, he has had no word about the fate of his mom and sister.
Ukrainian soldier Stas still struggles with sleep -- but he can't bear to relax with music on earbuds because he might not hear approaching danger. Therapists at the Military Center for Psychological Rehabilitation have worked with 3,500 combat veterans like Stas along with former prisoners of war.
Olga Dubinina cannot accept the Kremlin version of events surrounding the sinking of the Moskva in the Black Sea on April 14, 2022. The day before, two Ukraine-launched Neptune rockets were reportedly fired at the Russian missile cruiser. The official number of victims is still unknown.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation allowing for electronic conscription notices, a bid to cut down on draft dodging as the Kremlin seeks more soldiers for what is expected to be a long war in Ukraine. It’s a “law on hidden mobilization,” an attorney and activist says.
An appeals court in Chisinau on April 14 rejected an appeal by Moldovan businessman and politician Ilan Shor in a case linked to the theft of $1 billion in bank assets, and instead increased his sentence.
Volunteers in the Ukrainian city of Kherson are working tirelessly to help repair the lives and homes of local residents. Describing it as a “half-dead city,” one inhabitant said rebuilding was a struggle and hazardous as Kherson is still being targeted by Russian shelling.
A farmer whose land was on the front lines last year has taken on the job of mine-clearing. His pig and cattle farm now has piles of unearthed shells and exploded mines. Bohdan, a major grower in Mykolayiv, couldn't wait for military sappers -- the community urgently needs its crops and also jobs.
A court in the city of Kazan has sentenced a man to life in prison for an attack on a school in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan in May 2021 that left nine people -- including seven students -- dead and prompted a tightening of the country's gun laws.
A gay couple in the Russian city of Kazan has been detained for their romantic blog posts and charged with spreading LGBT propaganda. Arrested on April 5, Gela Gogishvili is facing a $2,500 fine and Haoyang Xu is awaiting deportation to China.
Russian student Varvara Zholiker found herself under police investigation after she posted a Ukrainian flag on social media. A teacher reported her to the police, and the family remains under official scrutiny. Zholiker, 11, and her mother are suing, accusing the police of false arrest.
Danylo Lytvynenko is eager to get back into battle on Ukraine's eastern front once he masters his new prosthetic leg. He's one of 12,000 war casualties treated at a specialist rehab center in Lviv, including 350 children. The faciltity uses high-tech machinery to make its own prosthetic devices.
Celebrities in Kyiv, a businessman in Kharkiv, an interior designer from Crimea...they're all studying Ukrainian amid a growth in interest in learning the language among the country's native Russian speakers.
Dissident Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who once promised to return to Moscow in a U.S.-made Abrams tank, was designated as a foreign agent on April 7 by the Russian Justice Ministry.
Ukrainian assault brigade sappers risk everything to clear the front line of mines laid by Russian forces -- and lay their own. As one sapper told Current Time correspondent Oleksiy Prodayvoda about a recent mission: "I thought I wasn't coming back."
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