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Between despair and hope: 89 families from the Kyiv Region are waiting for their nearest and dearest from captivity

Why international humanitarian law is powerless to free civilian hostages? Do state and international organizations help relatives of captives? How do we not lose hope? Here is a conversation with the Initiative Group “Our Dearest” representatives.

Cultural genocide is hard to prove, — says US professor

John Hall spent nine weeks in Ukraine and came to some astonishing conclusions.

‘He raised his machine gun and started shooting at’

Mykhailo Tepliuk from Bohdanivka (a village in Kyiv Region) was walking home when a Russian soldier sitting on a tank started shooting at him. The first two bul-lets pierced his knee, while the third tore off his hat and grazed his temple. Later the Russians came to his house looking for weapons, even searching the first floor.

Tortured and killed — civilians of the village of Moshchun

During the occupation of Moshchun (a village in Kyiv Region), the Russian military did not spare civilians. Olha Ivanenko's grandfather was found with three bullet wounds in his head. Olha still cannot understand why the Russians killed the 74-year-old disabled man.

‘The Russians deliberately took Ukrainian children out in groups’

How Russians complicate the search for Ukrainian children, bullying of Ukrainians in European schools, family reunification - Maryna Lypovetska talks about the difficulties and joys in the work of the “Magnolia Child Tracing Service”.

‘We must condemn communismʼ,— Refat Chubarov

Interview with the leader of the Crimean Tatars.

Tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian hostages are in the Russian Federation

How we are freeing Ukrainians from Russian captivity. Interview with Artur Dobroserdov, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine's authorized representative concerning persons missing under special circumstances.

‘Don’t scare my children, take the assault rifle away’

Serhii Bobko, a resident of the occupied village of Bohdanivka, hid his daughters in the basement when a Russian soldier came to the house. Fortunately, no one was hurt that day. Serhii and his family soon left the village, and when he returned he found his house damaged and looted.

‘A helicopter is flying, I look — a rocket is heading towards us...’

Oleksandr Hanziichuk is a resident of Borodianka in the Kyiv Region. The man lived there with his elderly mother and tried to save her from the bombing. At first, people hid in basements and later miraculously escaped from this hell.

‘We will be in Ukraine until the end,’ a Canadian volunteer says in Kharkiv

Paul Hughes’ organization carried out more than 300 missions in Ukraine. During one of them, a Canadian was interrogated for eight hours by the Russians.

‘There were people screaming in the destroyed houses and nobody was allowed to help them’

Serhii Vitkovskyi did not evacuate from Borodianka (Kyiv Region) because he could not leave his dog — a huge Alabai. Serhii tells how the Russian troops did not allow anyone to rescue people from the destroyed houses, and how his friend was shot dead in the middle of the street.

'There was a cemetery here' — a resident of the village of Zahaltsi

Serhii Smyrnov lives in the village of Zahaltsi, Kyiv Region. The family finished fixing the house just before the start of the war. They kept goats and poultry. The Russians forced the family to leave their native village, and when the family returned, neither the house nor the birds were there.

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