Ukraine’s schools race to build bomb shelters before term starts
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Svitlana tears up thinking of the bombing that leveled her son Illia’s school in Lysychansk, a city in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk now occupied by Russian forces, but she is determined to ensure the eighth-grader continues his studies. “My son’s school is not there anymore. It was bombed completely – and […]
Ukraine war: Six months that shook the world
Reuters looks at key moments during six months of conflict in Ukraine…
Ukrainian soldier, home on leave, reflects on horrors of war
Wroclaw, PolandReuters For Ukrainian soldier Dmytro Dovzhenko, embracing his family back in Poland after six months on the front line has a special poignancy as he tries to clear his mind of the image of a mother and child whose mutilated bodies had been tied together. He came across the corpses in Irpin in early […]
Kyiv parish ravaged by occupation makes painful split from Moscow
Irpin, UkraineReuters For years a vocal minority at Saint Nicholas’ parish in the middle-class Kyiv commuter town of Irpin resisted calls to split from their spiritual fathers in Moscow. A millennium of sacred ties between Russia and Ukraine, they argued, should be above politics. But after three weeks of Russian military occupation that left the […]
Updated: Big brands and oil ban punish Russia as Moscow makes new pledge on Ukraine refugees
Updated: 11.45pm (AEDT)Washington DC, US/Lviv, UkraineReuters A US ban on imports of Russia’s oil ratcheted up punishment for the invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday as McDonald’s and Starbucks closed outlets and Moscow promised safe passage for some people to flee. As the number of refugees created by the biggest assault on a European country since […]
Essay: The UN’s ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine is a hollow promise for civilians under fire in Ukraine
In an article published on The Conversation, PETER LEE, professor of applied ethics and director of security and risk research at University of Portsmouth in the UK, looks at the concept of ‘responsibility to protect’…
Russian offensive slows, says Ukraine, as residents flee bombed-out cities
Lviv/Irpin, Ukraine Reuters Russia’s offensive in Ukraine continued but at a significantly slower pace on Tuesday and a second senior Russian commander had been killed, Ukrainian military and intelligence said, as frightened residents fled bombed-out cities. In the city of Irpin, on the north-west edge of Kyiv, residents ran with their young children in strollers, […]
Updated: Russia warns on oil import ban as little progress is made at Ukraine talks
Updated: 12:30pm (AEDT)Lviv/Irpin, Ukraine Reuters A Western ban on Russian oil imports may more than double the price to $US300 a barrel and prompt the closure of the main gas pipeline to Germany, Moscow warned on Monday, as talks on Ukraine hardly advanced amid efforts to agree on civilian safe passage. Russia’s invasion, the biggest […]