Author: Inna Varenytsia
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Civilian medic commands respect on Ukraine war’s front lines
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DONETSK REGION, Ukraine • All over the Donetsk region, close to the front lines of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Nataliia Voronkova turns up at Ukrainian field positions and hospitals wearing high heels. A colleague bought her running shoes, but Voronkova gave them away. A helmet and a protective vest aren’t part of her uniform, either,…
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U.N. works to broker civilian evacuation from Mariupol
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KYIV, Ukraine • The United Nations doggedly sought to broker an evacuation of civilians from the increasingly hellish ruins of Mariupol on Friday, while Ukraine accused Russia of showing its contempt for the world organization by bombing Kyiv while the U.N. leader was visiting the capital. The mayor of Mariupol said the situation inside the…
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Explosions rock Kyiv again as Russians rain fire on Ukraine
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KYIV, Ukraine • Russia pounded targets from practically one end of Ukraine to the other Thursday, including Kyiv, bombarding the city while the head of the United Nations was visiting in the boldest attack on the capital since Moscow’s forces retreated weeks ago. Several people were wounded in the attack on Kyiv, including one who…
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Russia’s Chernobyl seizure seen as nuclear risk ‘nightmare’
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CHERNOBYL, Ukraine • Here in the dirt of one of the world’s most radioactive places, Russian soldiers dug trenches. Ukrainian officials worry they were, in effect, digging their own graves. Thousands of tanks and troops rumbled into the forested Chernobyl exclusion zone in the earliest hours of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, churning up…
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Ukrainians not panicking as West ramps up invasion rhetoric
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AVDIIVKA, Ukraine • In the trenches of eastern Ukraine, across the tense contact lines with Russia-backed separatists, a soldier’s calm verges on numbness after a sniper’s bullet recently killed one of the 50 or so men under his command. It is the sort of thing that has happened from time to time in the eight…