Landmines have already been cleared across more than a fifth of Ukraine’s surface, including farms, as the conflict approaches its fourth year.From Kyiv, Lesia Bakalets reports on the challenges Ukraine faces removing the mines and finding the resources to do it.
The western Ukrainian town of Makiv is grappling with the absence of men. The Russian invasion has led to many people to either flee, fight, or lost their lives. It is a common problem in many Ukrainian towns and villages. The country’s decline of population has been worsened by the war. People who are left behind are trying to rebuild their lives and have fears for Ukraine’s future.
A North Korean soldier captured in Russia has given the first public account of conditions supporting Russian forces, struggling with a language barrier, inadequate support and Ukrainian drones on what he had been told was a training mission.
As the Russian army advances, Ukrainian police and volunteers are moving quickly to evacuate people from areas along the front line. Pavlohrad is the nearest transit evacuation center in the Donetsk region.
As Russian forces advance on the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in the east, there are reports of heavy fighting. Pavlohrad’s citizens are becoming increasingly anxious as they worry their city to be the next target, a hundred kilometers down the road.
Since large number of men being drafted, drafted,Ukrainian women have the opportunity to work in the vast coal mines in their country.Lesia Bakalets went to a mine on the front line in the Dnipropetrovsk region and heard from some of those.Due to security reasons, neither the exact location of the mine nor the full names of the miners have been disclosed.
North Korean authorities have threatened to punish citizens who spread “rumors” about the country’s soldiers dying in Russia’s war with Ukraine — and ordered people to snitch on each other about this, residents in the country told Radio Free Asia.
Three North Korean soldiers killed five Russian servicemen in Russia’s Kursk region and the “armed and dangerous” Koreans were being hunted, according to a Russian military telegram channel.
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.
Ukrainian tech companies working in the defense simulation technology industry are now forced to compete actively in international markets as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. SKIFTECH is a company that specializes in advanced military simulations.