Ukraine
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Sports
Ukraine players in journey from Hell: It was a 450-mile road trip for some as air travel is outlawed
For Ukraine, the road to Wembley started eight days ago when two of the kit men loaded the team’s equipment into a truck in Kyiv and set out on the first leg of the mission, a 450-mile road trip to the Polish city of Rzeszow. At 7pm last Sunday, four players from Dynamo Kyiv and one from Oleksandriya, coaching staff,…
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Life Style
Lesbian couple who fled Ukraine marries in Ireland
For over 10 years, Ukrainian lesbian couple Alina and Uliana kept their relationship a secret. While they lived together in Kyiv, they told everyone in their lives they were simply best friends. But when Russia invaded Ukraine, everything changed. The couple shared their story with GCN. After what they described as Putin’s “terrorist state of the Russian Federation” invaded their…
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USA
Wagner Group chief says 5,000 convicts have been pardoned for fighting in Ukraine
The private military force, which has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, enlisted thousands of inmates for the bloodstained conflict in Ukraine. Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said today that thousands of prisoners have ‘completed their contracts’ after countless have died. ‘At the present time, more than 5,000 people have been released on pardon after completing their contracts with Wagner,’…
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Breaking News
British man goes to Ukraine to get his teeth fixed after NHS said they couldn't see him
A British man was forced to travel to war-torn Ukraine to get his teeth fixed for less than half the price it would have cost him in the UK after he failed to get an appointment with the NHS. Richard Howe, 58, from Ely in Cambridgeshire, developed an abscess under his tooth last month that was causing him severe discomfort.…
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British man goes to Ukraine to get his teeth fixed after NHS said they couldn't see him
A British man was forced to travel to war-torn Ukraine to get his teeth fixed for less than half the price it would have cost him in the UK after he failed to get an appointment with the NHS. Richard Howe, 58, from Ely in Cambridgeshire, developed an abscess under his tooth last month that was causing him severe discomfort.…
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Breaking News
Sickening leaked Russian spy emails show Putin planned ‘total cleansing’ of Ukraine
The country’s intelligence service was to inflict “house-to-house terror”, the leaked FSB email shows. Vladimir Putin wanted a “total cleansing” of Ukraine with “house-to-house terror” designed to quell the invaded nation’s people, leaked documents show. Emails from Russia’s FSB, which is the modern KGB, mention orders “from the very top” demanding Ukrainian civilians be forced into concentration camps. Source of…
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USA
Putin forces Russian conscripts to remain at frontline under death threats if they flee Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s commanders are forcing his conscript soldiers at gunpoint to remain at the frontline. They are using a brutal Stalin tactic to prevent Russian reservist troops leaving their positions, say men who have seen the horror of the cannon-fodder killing fields. ‘People are abandoned in the trenches as if homeless and littered with corpses,’ complained Russian reservist draftees in…
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Breaking News
Ukraine LIVE: Kyiv destroys Russian Mi-24 as leading Putin ally singles out new war ‘goal’
Vladimir Putin’s close ally, Dimitry Medvedev, has insisted that the Kremlin still wants to achieve all “goals” in the war against Ukraine despite heavy ongoing losses. Ukraine’s armed forces have claimed the downing of a Russian Mi-24 helicopter as Putin’s troops continue to be ground down in brutal fighting in the east of the country. The General Staff of the…
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Putin waging ‘holy war’ on Ukraine with help of Russian Orthodox leader Patriarch Kirill
EXCLUSIVE: Patriarch Kirill still has influence in Ukraine itself, especially in the east of the nation, said Dr Katherine Kelaidis. Vladimir Putin is trying to frame his country’s invasion of Ukraine as a “holy war”, aided and abetted by Patriarch Kirill, the controversial head of the Russian Orthodox church, a Russian history expert has claimed. Dr Katherine Kelaidis believes the…
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World
The U.S. Volunteers in Ukraine Who Lie, Waste and Bicker
They rushed to Ukraine by the thousands, many of them Americans who promised to bring military experience, money or supplies to the battleground of a righteous war. Hometown newspapers hailed their commitment, and donors backed them with millions of dollars. Now, after a year of combat, many of these homespun groups of volunteers are fighting with themselves and undermining the…
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