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CCTV footage captures the exact moment Russian guided aerial bombs struck the city of Sumy on July 11. The attack hit a busy area near a road and a public transport stop, damaging residential buildings and local businesses. The death toll from the strike has risen to five people, including a 13-year-old girl. Video: piccolino_coffee / Instagram.
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A confrontation broke out on Nov. 2 in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, a village on the outskirts of Kyiv, where hundreds of civilians gathered near an unmarked facility with National Guard soldiers present following unverified reports that mobilized men were being unlawfully held inside. The situation quickly escalated as protesters attacked the facility and threw eggs at policemen and National Guard members, who responded with tear gas and firing into the air.
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Seventy-one-year-old Anna Stepanska from Russian-occupied Oleshky describes the life-threatening risks residents faced just to find food before being evacuated to Ukrainian-controlled territory on Oct. 31. Video: Yuliia Taradiuk; Olena Zashko / the Kyiv Independent.
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Nineteen-year-old Liza reunited with her father on Oct. 31 after he arrived from Russian-occupied Oleshky. Following a perilous 19-hour journey to reach Ukrainian-controlled territory, families torn apart by Russian occupation are finally coming together again. Video: Olena Zashko / the Kyiv Independent.
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Ukrainian journalists on Nov. 2 appealed to their international colleagues to keep Russian aggression in the spotlight and to urge their leaders not to appease Moscow. “We speak to you from a country where every morning begins with checking whether our families and friends are still alive. This appeal is a desperate attempt to warn you," journalists said in a video appeal.
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Russian forces struck the center of Chernihiv around noon on Oct. 29 with Banderol cruise missiles, killing two 15-year-old girls, Governor Viacheslav Chaus reported. At least 23 other people were injured in the attack, including four children, according to Dmytro Bryzhynskyi, head of the Chernihiv city military administration. Video: National Police; State Emergency Service / Telegram.
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A video circulating on social media shows a Russian drone hunting an unarmed civilian trading at a local market in Kherson's Central district around 6:45 a.m. The footage shows the drone circling the man as he tries to flee before the operator strikes. Ukraine’s National Police later identified the victim as a 52-year-old local resident, reporting that he survived the attack with blast injuries, shrapnel wounds, and a concussion. The strike is part of a relentless pattern in Kherson, where Russian troops have for months used FPV drones to deliberately target civilians in what terrified locals describe as a "human safari." Law enforcement is documenting the strike as a Russian war crime. Video: National Police / Telegram.
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Ukrainian forces have completed a "first-of-its-kind" mission, using a heavy aerial drone to evacuate an injured soldier from a front-line position where ground rescue was impossible. The "Heavy Shot Ayudag-6" hexacopter transported the soldier 62 km to safety under continuous electronic warfare protection.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky’s former press secretary Iuliia Mendel gave an interview to Tucker Carlson, an American conservative political commentator. In this video, the Kyiv Independent’s Nastia Kasinchuk breaks down all the false claims that Mendel said in her one-and-a-half hour long interview, including the mobilization law in Ukraine, the freedom of speech and her claims about Zelensky himself.
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The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell spent several days with one of the International Battalion of Ukraine’s Azov Corps' drone crews to document how these foreign fighters have integrated into Ukraine’s ranks and adapted to modern drone warfare. Watch the full video here:
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Police special forces in Kharkiv Oblast evacuated a cat from a front-line position after carrying him over 11 kilometers on foot while navigating threats from Russian FPV drones, regional police reported. The cat had stayed with the officers since spring, receiving food and vaccinations from the team. As logistics worsened and winter approached, police decided to evacuate the animal during a unit rotation, walking through fields and thickets while pausing to take cover from Russian forces drones. Video: Kharkiv Oblast Police / Facebook.
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On the front line, Ukrainian soldier Serhii shares touching moments of caring for, feeding, and cuddling local cats. For him, taking care of these small lives is a personal mission and a way to hold onto humanity amid the ongoing war. Video: fasst1k / Threads.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russian forces had never been the first to deliberately attack civilian infrastructure. He made the remarks at the Valdai Discussion Club in Moscow on Oct. 1. Russia has repeatedly struck civilian infrastructure across Ukraine since launching its full-scale invasion in 2022, including homes, hospitals, schools, and energy facilities. In recent weeks, Kyiv has faced almost daily drone attacks, continuing throughout the day and night. Russian jet-powered drones have struck schools, medical facilities, supermarkets, gas stations, and data centers, disrupting daily life across the capital. Video: Kremlin; The Kyiv Independent
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed on Sept. 16 that Moscow had no intention of attacking Europe, echoing the Kremlin’s rhetoric in the weeks leading up to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. On Jan. 28, 2022 — just 27 days before Russia launched the full-scale invasion — Lavrov similarly claimed that Moscow did not want war while warning that it would not allow its interests to be ignored. Russia’s war against Ukraine had begun in 2014, when it illegally annexed Crimea and invaded parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. On Feb. 24, 2022, Moscow dramatically escalated the conflict, launching an all-out invasion from several directions and attempting to seize Kyiv. Video: AFPTV; Contributor / Getty Images; AP; Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation / YouTube.
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Russian forces struck Zaporizhzhia overnight on Sept. 21, injuring at least five people and causing fires across the city. First responders rescued five residents and evacuated 14 others after the attack damaged two high-rise residential buildings, a local shopping center, and a university campus. Video: Zaporizhzhia Oblast Defense Council / Telegram.
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