Kherson residents stock up as first Ukrainian supermarket opens
Kherson, Ukraine Reuters Hundreds of Kherson residents flocked on Sunday to buy groceries at the first Ukrainian supermarket to open since the city was retaken by pro-Kyiv forces earlier this month. During the almost nine months of occupation, the Russian-installed government had brought in Russian-sourced products and introduced the ruble as currency. People shop at […]
They call it ‘The Hole’: Ukrainians describe horrors of Kherson occupation
JONATHAN LANDAY and TOM BALMFORTH, of Reuters, report on what the residents of Kherson say went on during the Russian occupation of the southern Ukrainian city…
Putin says Ukraine mobilisation should be finished in two weeks
Astana, KazakhstanReuters Russia should be finished calling up reservists in two weeks, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, promising an end to a divisive mobilisation that has seen hundreds of thousands of men summoned to fight in Ukraine and huge numbers flee the country. Putin also said Russia had no plans “for now” for more […]
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says two more burial sites found in liberated Izium
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukraine has discovered two more mass burial sites containing the bodies of hundreds of people in the north-eastern town of Izium, which Kyiv recaptured from Russia this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Zelenskiy made his comment in an interview with CBS published late on Sunday in which he also called for sustained […]
Ukraine, West denounce Russian referendum plans for occupied regions
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russian-installed leaders in occupied areas of four Ukrainian regions on Tuesday set out plans for referendums on joining Russia, a challenge to the West that could sharply escalate the war and sparked condemnation from Ukraine and its allies. “The Russians can do whatever they want. It will not change anything,” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister […]
“Like Chernobyl”: Wary Ukrainians return to ruined towns after Russian retreat
Balakliia, UkraineReuters Joy, trepidation and grief flickered across the face of Nataliia Yelistratova as she sat next to her husband on a special train back to their home town of Balakliia that Ukraine recaptured last week after six months of Russian occupation. The town – which had a population of 27,000 before the war – is one of […]
Ukrainians brave nuclear risk to escape Russian-ruled south
Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine Reuters Thousands of people fleeing Russia-controlled areas of south Ukraine are arriving in a city near Europe’s largest nuclear plant despite fears of a radiation leak from fighting. For many, the shelling in their hometowns is a more urgent danger. Even in a country still haunted by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the danger […]
Ukraine says it is targeting Russians shooting at, or from nuclear plant
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukraine is targeting Russian soldiers who shoot at an occupied nuclear plant in the south of the country or use it as a base to shoot from, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday. Ukraine and Russia have traded accusations over multiple recent incidents of shelling at the Zaporizhzhia facility, Europe’s largest nuclear power […]
“My soul hurts”: In occupied south Ukraine, some fear a return to Soviet times under Russia
TOM BALMFORTH and STEFANIIA BERN, of Reuters, report on Russia’s bid to bind Ukraine’s Kherson region to Moscow….
Postcards: Residents of captured Ukrainian port city try to survive among its ruins
Reuters speaks with residents of Mariupol about life in the city, two months after it was captured by Russia…