North Korean soldiers are fighting with deteriorated supplies and outdated weapons and may have been carrying no food rations during their recent combat operations in Russia’s Kursk region, a Ukrainian special operations sergeant told Radio Free Asia.
In the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine, UNICEF and other aid organizations are helping people in getting prepared for the cold as severe winter weather sets in. The war has cost many people jobs and steady sources of money, leaving them unable to pay for heating.Among them is the Malakey family, whose two children have disabilities.
Recent figures show that 120,000 Ukrainian soldiers have lost their lives defending their country against Russia’s invasion. Nearly two hundred thousand Ukrainians have been wounded. The road to recovery is challenging for those who survived, some of whom have lost limbs. A special initiative in Mexico City is providing them with a lifeline.
While serving as president of the US-Ukraine Business Council, the late American businessman Morgan Williams was actively involved in promoting Ukrainian business. While in Ukraine, Williams started collecting artwork about the Holodomor, a famine that killed millions of people in the early 1930s and was engineered by Russian leader Joseph Stalin. Now all that artwork has a home.
Ukraine now a world leader in the driver, to digitize government services, from digital passports to apps that allow conscripts to update their details in the draft register or issue air alerts.
This week marks 1,000 days of fighting in Ukraine.For millions of Ukrainians, including 32-year-old Oleh Reshetnyak and his loved ones in Kyiv, the mounting death toll, air raid sirens, and explosions have been a grim reality.
In order to educate students lifetime lessons on survival and patriotism, Ukrainian schools have introduced a new subject called “Defense of Ukraine,” which includes first aid, drone operation, and weapons safety handling.
Patriot missiles and F-16 fighter jets are among the expensive military hardware being sent to Ukraine.However, many Ukrainian soldiers have found that the U.S.-made 60-millimeter M224 mortars, which are also utilized by the U.S. Marine Corps have shown to be very effective against Russian forces.
With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the number of Ukrainian citizens seeking adoption for children has significantly increased.
In Ukraine’s Donetsk region,a volunteer group is searching for the bodies of those killed during the war with Russia. About 2,000 bodies have been recovered since 2014, according to the group Platsdarm.