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Zelenskiy honours Ukrainian villagers held captive in basement

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday paid tribute to the courage of nearly 400 residents of a village in north Ukraine held in a school basement under Russian occupation for 27 days one year ago.

Reuters

Stirling Ukrainian refugee shares terrifying story of escaping homeland a year on from invasion

The family were forced to go on the run from their home town of Chernihiv - but have been helping other Ukrainians living in the city settle in.

Daily Record

Ukraine Comes under Russian Missile Onslaught after Securing Tanks from Allies

The danger of Russian air attacks remained high on Friday, Ukraine's military said, a day after Russian missiles and drones killed at least 11 people in what appeared to be a response to promises by Western allies to supply Ukraine with tanks. Russian forces trained tank, mortar and artillery fire…

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‘I want to become a soldier’: How Ukrainian children’s lives are being torn apart by Russian rockets

While the war in Ukraine continues Russian bomb attacks are damaging children’s upbringing and education – in the very worst cases their lives have been destroyed completely. It is hoped that this can change with the help of Unicef and the international community

The Independent UK

Villagers forced to starve as Russian forces devoured chickens, pigs, and dogs

Russian soldiers occupied villages of Chernihiv Oblast, reportedly locking up nearly 400 people, including infants, in a basement where parents fed them scraps of rations for a month

Daily Mirror

Ukraine's Zelenskiy announces probe after grenade explosion injures 15

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday said a criminal investigation was opened into an explosion of a grenade launcher at a children's event in Chernihiv that wounded several people.

Reuters

Toxins in soil, blasted forests – Ukraine counts cost of Putin’s ‘ecocide’

Environmentalists are counting the cost of Russian military’s devastation and hope to force Moscow into making reparations

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Trudy Rubin: From Chernihiv, Ukraine, a suggestion for how ordinary Americans can oppose Putin’s war

Six months after Russia invaded Ukraine, here is a different take on how to help Kyiv win the war.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

DJ sets and debris: Volunteers hold cleanup ‘raves’ to rebuild Ukraine

With electronic beats blaring in the background, volunteers sweep, scrub and haul debris. It’s not a typical techno party activity, but for young people in Ukraine, it’s a compromise between summer music festivals and the massive rebuilding effort taking place. Our Observer, one of the volunteers organising the “rave cleanups”,…

France 24

Russia strikes areas in northern Ukraine while Ukraine counterattacks in the south

Russian forces launched missile strikes on Ukraine's Kyiv and Chernihiv regions while Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, announced an operation to liberate occupied territory in the country's south.

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Russian forces fire barrage of missiles at northern Ukraine from Belarus

Strikes hit Chernihiv region as well as locations outside Kyiv and around city of Zhytomyr, say officials

The Guardian - UK

Russia steps up strikes on Ukraine amid counterattacks

Russian forces have launched massive missile strikes on the Kyiv and the Chernihiv regions, areas that haven’t been targeted in weeks

The Independent UK

Ukraine grain storage crisis hits home as farmers harvest new crops

Ukrainian farmer Mykola Tereshchenko hopes to start harvesting his wheat fields this week, but the smallholder in northern Ukraine has nowhere to store the grain.

Reuters

Russia strikes weapons depot in Ukraine with cruise missiles - RIA

Russia struck an artillery weapons depot with Kalibr cruise missiles in Ukraine's Chernihiv region, the RIA news agency reported on Tuesday, citing the Russian defence ministry.

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French experts collect evidence of possible war crimes in Ukraine's Chernihiv

Weapons experts from France are helping their Ukrainian counterparts collect evidence of possible Russian war crimes in the northern region of Chernihiv, Ukraine's prosecutor general said on Friday.

Reuters

Ukraine rebases businesses from war front to shield vital producers

Oleg Averyanov's factory produced fire trucks and employed 600 people until it was forced to halt operations and close its doors as a Russian invasion force poured over the border into his region in northeastern Ukraine on Feb. 24.

The Guardian - UK

‘I couldn’t do it’: the Chernihiv coroner who faced the body of a friend

Yurii Fenenko dreaded the day he knew would surely come, when the body of someone he was close to was brought in

Daily Mirror

Bodies of 87 found as Ukraine suffers biggest single death toll from Russian strike

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 87 bodies were discovered under the ruins of the Desna training centre following a Russian missile attack

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Chernihiv residents recall dramatic downing of Russian fighter jet

In the first weeks of Russia’s Ukraine invasion, residents of Chernihiv were shaken by heavy gunfire followed by billowing black smoke. Ukrainian forces had shot down a Russian fighter jet, whose two pilots parachuted into the northern city. It was a dramatic day at the critical start of a war…

Al Jazeera

HRW documents ‘apparent war crimes’ by Russian forces in Ukraine

Leading US-based rights group says Russian forces had subjected civilians to summary executions, torture in two regions.

Chicago Sun-Times

Russia continues to bomb schools, bringing war crimes scrutiny

The International Criminal Court, prosecutors across the globe and Ukraine’s prosecutor general are investigating more than 8,000 reports of potential war crimes in Ukraine.

Daily Mirror

Russia 'could swap Ukrainian steel plant siege heroes with imprisoned officers'

Even as hundreds of soldiers evacuated their Mariupol bunker, Russian forces continued to pound Ukraine with missiles, killing ten civilians and injuring three in a strike on Chernihiv

Reuters

Russian air strike kills eight in northern Ukraine - emergency service

Eight people were killed and 12 wounded in a Russian air strike on the village of Desna in the northern Ukrainian region of Chernihiv on Tuesday, the regional emergency service said.

Reuters

Ukrainian servicemen load bodies of Russian soldiers onto refrigerated rail cars

Ukrainian military authorities loaded the bodies of Russian soldiers collected after fighting in the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions onto refrigerated rail cars on Friday.

Evening Standard

Russia hits east Ukraine as war pushes Finland closer to Nato

Putin’s forces were said to have targeted Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv and Sumy on Thursday as they continued their offensive

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