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While embedded with Ukrainian troops, Current Time journalists Borys Sachalko and Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey came under fire during a Russian artillery assault. They filed this report on March 15 from the combat zone northwest of Kyiv, diving to the ground and scrambling for cover.
Kyiv authorities say a Russian shell hit a nine-story residential building in the Obolon district in the early morning hours of March 14. Current Time's Boris Sachalko and Ivan Lubish-Kirdey were on site and spoke with residents of the damaged building.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has reportedly traveled to Ukraine, where members of his feared militia force are believed to be fighting alongside regular Russian forces.
Russian forces are threatening to shoot municipal officials in Kherson, according to a councilor from the Ukrainian city, where the Russian Army has seized control. Sergei Khlan said the Russians were searching for local activists and officials who were now in hiding.
Obstetrician-gynecologist Kyrylo Ventskivskiy was working a night shift when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. He delivered the first baby born in wartime Ukraine. He's only gone home once since then.
With infrastructure damaged and some ruins still smoldering, residents remain defiant as Russian armed forces maneuver in the vicinity of the Ukrainian capital. Current Time visited Pushcha-Vodytsya, a small spa town just a few kilometers outside Kyiv, on March 10 and spoke to locals.
More than 2 million people have fled from Ukraine to escape the onslaught of Russia's military forces. On March 8, Current Time spoke to Ukrainians on the move in Kyiv and Lviv who hope to find a safe haven inside or outside the country.
A column of Russian tanks was ambushed by Ukrainian forces on March 10 near the city of Brovary on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
Russia's two leading social networks have blocked Current Time's content at the request of the country's media regulator, in the latest government move to clamp down on independent news organizations.
As Russia wages a brutal war against Ukraine, targeting civilian areas and drawing global condemnation, many people living in Russia and Russian-occupied Crimea consume false narratives promoted by Kremlin-controlled media.
Russia's Economic Development Ministry has drafted legislation aimed at preventing the mounting exit of international businesses from Russia over the war in Ukraine, and potentially laying the groundwork for nationalizing them.
Increasing numbers of residents are leaving their homes northwest of Kyiv. Current Time reporter Roman Sukhan accompanied a police bus that evacuated people from the town of Hostomel to the Ukrainian capital. Some left after days spent in basements without electricity and heating.
CCTV video has surfaced showing a car carrying two pensioners being blown apart by an armored column at a crossroads in Makariv in the Kyiv region on February 28. The man and woman inside were killed. A witness on the scene identified the attackers as Russian forces.
A Ukrainian man who is lucky to be alive after an armored vehicle hit his car in Kyiv on February 25 has thanked his rescuers and said that he would join Ukraine's territorial defense forces as soon as he recovers.
Singers and musicians, young and old, have been recorded performing as they try to raise the morale of Ukrainians taking cover in bomb shelters, in the Kyiv subway, and other threatened areas around the country as Russia's war on Ukraine continues.
The city of Irpin, a short distance from the Ukrainian capital, has come under heavy attack from Russian forces massed nearby. Residential areas have been devastated, driving out the residents, with many hoping to reach Kyiv.
Thousands of people are trying to flee the Ukrainian city of Irpin for the capital, Kyiv, almost 25 kilometers away. Ukrainian forces have blown up bridges near the city to stop advancing Russian tanks. Current Time filmed local residents trying to escape Russian shelling.
Speaking to Current Time on March 7, Kherson resident Pavlo Keba described the dire conditions in the Ukrainian city occupied by Russian forces. He said that the humanitarian situation is becoming critical because, in his words: "There is no food supplied to the city."
Several Russian television channels have been hacked and had their programming substituted with coverage of the war in Ukraine by independent broadcasters Current Time and Dozhd TV, outlets blocked in Russia by the authorities.
Residential buildings were in flames in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv on March 7. The city is on a strategic route between Kherson, which is occupied by Russian forces, and the port city of Odesa. Residents of Odesa and Zaporizhzhya are preparing to defend their cities.
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