Author: Mstyslav Chernov
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Suffering goes on in encircled Mariupol as evacuation fails
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MARIUPOL, Ukraine • Corpses lie in the streets of Mariupol. Hungry people break into stores in search of food and melt snow for water. Thousands huddle in basements, trembling at the sound of Russian shells pounding this strategic port city. “Why shouldn’t I cry?” Goma Janna demanded as she wept by the light of an…
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Russian forces begin shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces shelled Europe’s largest nuclear plant early Friday in the battle for control of a crucial energy-producing city, and the power station was on fire. Plant spokesman Andriy Tuz told Ukrainian television that shells were falling directly on the Zaporizhzhia plant and had set fire to one of the facility’s…
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A shelling, a young girl, and hopeless moments in a hospital
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MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — In the port city of Mariupol, where Ukrainians are trying to fend off a Russian advance, an ambulance raced into a city hospital Sunday, carrying a 6-year-old girl mortally injured in Russian shelling. She was pale. Her brown hair was pulled back with a rubber band. Her bloody pyjama pants were…
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Desperation drives Afghans across borders
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HERAT, Afghanistan • Over the course of an hour on a recent night, the bus waiting in the Herat station filled with passengers. Mostly young men, they had no luggage, just the clothes on their backs, maybe a bag with some bread and water for the long road ahead of them. That road is leading…
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Border village grids to a halt amid Ukraine-Russia tensions
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CHERTKOVO, Russia/MILOVE, Ukraine • Valentina Boldyreva stepped out of her two-story house on an overcast and snowy Sunday afternoon to say hello to her 76-year-old sister who lives on the other side of Friendship of People’s Street, a tall barbed-wire fence separating them. “You see my sister is walking up to the wire,” Boldyreva said.…
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Two more arrested in Manchester bombing; terror threat lowered to ‘severe’
MANCHESTER, England — Britain reduced its terrorism threat level a notch, from “critical” to “severe” on Saturday, as authorities said they had made major progress in unravelling the plot behind the Manchester concert bombing. But police said more arrests were expected, and security was tight across Britain as hundreds of thousands of people attended major…