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RFE/RL spoke with evacuees fleeing Russian soldiers in southeast Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya area. On March 11, nine buses and 150 cars were utilised to transport residents from regions such as Dniprorudne, which is near the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Station, which Russian soldiers captured on March 4. Residents stated the city was still in Ukrainian hands, but that Russian troops were encircling it
Yan Boechat of VOA reports from Irpin, roughly 25 kilometres north of Kyiv, where Russian and Ukrainian troops are fighting
Celia Mendoza of VOA went to the Polish village of Medyka, which has become one of the busiest border crossings since Russia invaded Ukraine and sent this report
Thousands of Afghans have fled the Russian invasion of Ukraine. For many of those now coming into Poland, conflict has uprooted their lives for the second time.
Asian Americans say they’re fighting back against an increase in hate crimes directed at them, particularly targeting women and the elderly
Each of the two million Ukrainians who have left Russia’s invasion has a heartbreaking tale of loss and separation
More than 1.2 million Ukrainian refugees have fled to Poland since the Russian incursion began, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency. They’ve been welcomed into Poland
The resistance to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine comes in many different of forms. For some residents in the Donetsk region, this means flooding their local volunteer centre with supplies for Ukrainian soldiers fighting Russian forces
Women own a limited percentage of property in Kenya, as they do in much of Africa, and only about 14% of Kenya’s real estate brokers are female
Thousands of people are attempting to flee Irpin, Ukraine’s second largest city, to Kyiv, the country’s capital, which is nearly 25 kilometres distant. To halt oncoming Russian tanks, Ukrainian forces blew up bridges near the city