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☆ The Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 helicopter is encouraging other Russians to do the same, promising they'll be taken care of for life
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 helicopter spoke publicly for the first time. The Ukrainian defense agency identified the pilot as Maksym Kuzminov, a 28-year-old former captain in Russia's 319th separate helicopter regiment. The defense intelligence on Sunday published a documentary on YouTube called "Downed Russian Pilots" that details the defection plot. The pilot said he coordinated with Ukrainian military intelligence, which was able to create the circumstances for his safe defection. "What is happening now is simply genocide of the Ukrainian people: both Ukrainian and Russian," Kuzminov said.

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☆ Russian air strikes on western Ukraine kill at least three - officials
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] A view shows a building damaged during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine August 15, 2023. The Volyn region borders NATO-member Poland to its west. Ukraine's Air Force said that its forces had destroyed 16 of at least 28 Russia-launched air and sea-based missiles. Until July, the Lviv region which is far from the front lines and which borders Poland to its west, had been spared most Russia's air attacks. Air raid alerts were issued for entire Ukraine for about two hours, staring at around 2 a.m. (2300 GMT).

Persons: Administration Maksym, Yuriy Pohulyaiko, Andriy Sadovyi, Sadovyi, Maxim Kozitsky, Serhiy Lisak, Lidia Kelly, Maria Tsvetkova, Kim Coghill, Simon Cameron, Moore Organizations: Lviv Regional, Administration, REUTERS, NATO, Air Force, Lviv region's, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Lviv, Handout, Russia, Volyn, Lutsk, Poland, Dnipropetrovsk, Warsaw, New York

☆ Russia's planting mines everywhere, even cruelly hiding explosives in everyday items like fridges, toys, and children's books, Ukrainian military engineers say
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Russian soldiers who previously occupied Ukrainian territory left it littered with land mines. Moscow's troops hid explosives in every items like toys, fridges, and even children's books. For instance, they cruelly hide explosives in everyday household items like refrigerators, toys, and even children's books. Military sappers inspect an area for mines and non-exploded shells left after Russia's invasion in Kyiv Region, Ukraine April 21, 2022. REUTERS/Mykola TymchenkoUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned in April 2022 that Russian soldiers retreating in the north at the time had left mines everywhere, creating a "complete disaster."

Persons: it's, Mark Milley, sapper, Gleb Garanich, Oleksandr, Mykola Tymchenko, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Maksym Trykur, Trykur, That's, Europe's Organizations: Service, Joint Chiefs, Staff, Ukrainian Armed Forces, REUTERS, Ukraine's, Transport Service, State Emergency Service, Special Transport Service, Mining, Mines Locations: Ukrainian, Russia, Wall, Silicon, Ukraine, Russian, Izium, Kharkiv region, Kyiv, Kyiv Region, Udy, Kharkiv, Africa

☆ Russia's formidable minefields are 'insane' to navigate, with as many as 5 mines per square meter, Ukrainian official says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Ukrainian official said Russia had laid 5 mines per square meter in some regions. Ukrainian troops are having to clear minefields by hand, according to reports. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. "On average, there are 3-4-5 mines per square meter. Previous reports have described how Western tanks and mine-clearing technology have not been able to secure Ukrainian units a breakthrough, so units are resorting to trying to clear minefields slowly by hand.

Persons: Oleksiy Danilov, Maksym Organizations: Service, National Security and Defense Council, CNN, BBC, The New York Times Locations: Russia, Wall, Silicon, Washington, DC, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Western, The

☆ Ukrainian orphans taste freedom after fleeing Russian occupation
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Stefaniia Bern | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

"There was no ping pong in occupation, children don't even play soccer in the stadiums. Last month, their father finally died of AIDS, the same illness that killed their mother a decade ago, leaving them orphans. Moscow says it has gathered hundreds of thousands of orphans and vulnerable children there, taking them to Russia for their safety. Children whose parents die are the most urgent cases, because the Russian-installed occupation authorities will swiftly impose legal guardianship, said Save Ukraine's founder, Mykola Kuleba. Once they have Ukrainian passports sorted, they will go stay with their late father's ex-wife, now a refugee in Slovakia.

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☆ Ukraine aims to retake ground by Bakhmut, Russia says it repelled attacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Ukrainian serviceman operates a reconnaissance unmanned aerial device over the outskirts of Bakhmut town, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near a frontline Donetsk region, Ukraine May 25, 2023. Maliar said Ukrainian forces were advancing "slowly but confidently" south of Bakhmut while securing control of positions north of the city. Accounts from Moscow said Russian troops had repelled eight Ukrainian attempts to advance in the east and inflicted a defeat near Bakhmut. Ukrainian forces, she said, were also working to contain intensified Russian attacks on areas farther north in Donestsk region, around Kupiansk and Lyman. One prominent commander who comments on the front, Maksym Zhorin, said Ukrainian forces had secured partial control of the key village of Klishchiivka.

Persons: Anna Kudriavtseva, Hanna Maliar, Maliar, Lyman, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Maksym Zhorin, Ron Popeski, Nick Starkov, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: Ukrainian, REUTERS, Kyiv, Russian, Russia's Defence Ministry, Thomson Locations: Bakhmut, Ukraine, Donetsk, Moscow, Azov, Crimean, Kyiv, Donestsk, Kupiansk, Klishchiivka

☆ Why Russia's defenses are so effective: Deep minefields, adaptable drones, and electronic warfare are proving formidable in Ukraine, experts say.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Russia's defenses are proving effective in frustrating the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Its use of mines, adaptable drones, and electronic warfare are particularly formidable, experts said. He said there were often more than four rows of minefields in front of the Russian defensive lines. A retired Australian general Mick Ryan appears to agree with Lewis, telling The Economist on Monday that Russia's defensive lines are "much more complex and deadly than anything experienced by any military in nearly 80 years." Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow with RUSI, told Newsweek that Ukraine's "Beaver" drones appear to be vulnerable to Russia's electronic defense systems.

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☆ Newlywed soldiers on Ukraine's frontline dream of growing old together: 'The main thing is to survive'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Two soldiers on the frontline of battle in Ukraine paused their military duties to get married. After a short honeymoon, the pair will return to fight in Donetsk, as they dream of growing old together. The pair's modest wedding was planned and donated to them by a Ukrainian charity that typically provides supplies for female soldiers such as combat uniforms and boots. "We will live," The Times reported Merezhko said after the ceremony. Dluzhynska's hope for the future was even simpler than her new husband's: "The main thing is to survive," she said.

Persons: Merezhko, Yuliia Dluzhynska, Dluzhynska, Khrystyna, Lyuta Organizations: Service, New York Times, Zemliachky, Times Locations: Ukraine, Donetsk, Wall, Silicon, Ukrainian, Russian

☆ Two Ukrainian Service Members Take a Break to Say ‘I Do’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Cassandra Vinograd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The groom could not wait to kiss the bride. He kissed her when she walked down the aisle, and during the ceremony. He kissed her after his vows, after hers, and again when they finally said “I do.”Maksym Merezhko, 43, and the bride, Yuliia Dluzhynska, 39, both serve in Ukraine’s military and had traveled to Kyiv the night before from the eastern Donetsk region. The couple had been officially married days before, signing a marriage license in a stuffy room in Sloviansk. “It takes a lot of time to organize a wedding, and when you are on the front line, you don’t have that free time,” said Kseniia Drahaniuk, Zemliachky’s co-founder.

Persons: “, Maksym, Yuliia Dluzhynska, Dluzhynska, ”, Kseniia Drahaniuk, Zemliachky’s Locations: Kyiv, Donetsk, Sloviansk

☆ Russia Says It Shot Down 2 Ukrainian Missiles Over Border Cities: Live Updates
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Anton Troianovski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Credit... Laura Boushnak for The New York Times“He has never seen me like this,” Ms. Dluzhynska said of the groom. But when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Mr. Merezhko rejoined the military to fight. About a month later, Ms. Dluzhynska followed, as a medic, to be near him. At the wedding ceremony, in an event space with a roof deck overlooking Kyiv, cloth azaleas formed a white arch. In his vows, Mr. Merezhko drew laughs describing how he had worn dirty shorts to their first meeting.

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☆ Ukrainian pilot says its air force is so outclassed by Russia's that it can 'do nothing to them in the air'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Ukrainian pilot described his struggle against much more powerful Russian aviation. The pilot told The Sunday Times about the limited impact that Ukraine's outdated gear can have. "The Russian jets are much better quality than ours," Maksym told The Times. A top British air force general, Chief Marshal of British Air Staff Rich Knighton, told a conference in London last week that Russia's air force "remains largely intact." Citing British intelligence, Knighton said that Russia's air force had retained 96% of its 2,021 fixed-wing aircraft and 90% of its 899 helicopters, with losses of 86 planes and 90 helicopters.

Persons: Maksym, Maksim's, British Air Staff Rich Knighton, Knighton Organizations: Sunday Times, Service, Times, Lada, Ukraine, Senior Ukrainian, Financial Times, British, British Air Staff Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Ukrainian, Bakhmut, Soviet, London

☆ Ukrainian helicopter crew say women flash them as they fly overhead to boost their morale fighting Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Ukrainian air force crew told The Sunday Times that women flash them when they fly overhead. The Ukrainian air force is trying to keep morale high as it faces a strong Russian counterpart. He said his crew saves the GPS locations of places where it happens, lighthearted moment in their dangerous and often demoralizing missions against a far superior Russian air force. The Ukrainian air force is struggling against a far better-armed Russia, Maksym said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told The Wall Street Journal last month that Russian air superiority would exact a heavy toll on Ukrainian soldiers if Western powers did not provide them with reinforcements.

Persons: Maksym, Volodymyr Zelenskyy Organizations: Sunday Times, Service, Times, Wall Locations: Ukrainian, Russian, Wall, Silicon, Russia, Soviet, Ukraine

☆ While the Russian invasion has shown the world the next generation of high-tech warfare, old-school tactics are decimating Ukrainian troops: land mines, booby traps, and tripwires
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Mines cause more wounds among troops than artillery, a Ukrainian medic told the NYT. At the same time, fiberglass rods are used instead of metal detectors to find electrically triggered mines, Insider previously reported. Wounds caused by plastic mines are particularly difficult to treat, as medics cannot locate where plastic shrapnel is embedded in the body using traditional methods like X-rays. Russian troops aren't the only ones deploying antipersonnel mines as they continue their invasion of Ukraine. Insider previously reported Human Rights Watch this month urged Ukrainian officials to investigate reports of butterfly mines being used against Russian soldiers.

Persons: Valery Zaluzhny, Maksym Prysyazhnyuk, Prysyazhnyuk, Mark Kimmitt Organizations: Service, Washington, Troops, Mines, New York Times, Times, Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, of, Russian Federation, United States Department of Defense, United Nations Commission, Rights Locations: Ukraine, Ukrainian, Wall, Silicon, Brig

☆ Ukraine's Zelenskiy brings home Azovstal commanders released to Turkey
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks with commanders of defenders of the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works in Mariupol Denys Prokopenko, Sviatoslav Palamar, Denys Shleha, Serhii Volynskyi and Oleh Homenko inside a plane as they return to Ukraine from Istanbul, Turkey July 8, 2023. Ukrainian... Read moreKYIV, July 8 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, returning home from a visit to Turkey, brought with him five commanders of Ukraine's former garrison in Mariupol, forced to live in Turkey under the terms of a prisoner exchange last year. The commanders, lionised as heroes in Ukraine, led last year's defence of the port, the biggest city Russia captured in its invasion. "We are returning home from Turkey and bringing our heroes home," said Zelenskiy who met Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for talks in Istanbul on Friday. Zelenskiy gave no explanation for why the commanders were being allowed to return home now.

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Video The mayor of Lviv called this the worst attack on the city since the war started. Still, Russia has shifted its strategy with missile and drone attacks throughout the war, hitting one city one night and then targeting several on another. In the early days of the war, the 700,000 residents of Lviv prepared themselves for a full-scale onslaught that never materialized. A day before the attack on Lviv, Ukraine destroyed a military base in the Russian-occupied city of Makiivka. Consequences of the night attack by Russian terrorists.

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☆ Russian missile strikes apartment block in Lviv, kills at least three
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] A general view of damage to an apartment building from a Russian rocket strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine in this screen grab obtained from a social media video released July 6, 2023. Maksym Kozytskiy via Telegram/via REUTERSJuly 6 (Reuters) - A Russian missile attack killed at least three people in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, and rescuers were searching through the debris of an apartment building for survivors and casualties, the local mayor said. "Three people have been killed," Mayor Andriy Sadovy said in a post on his Telegram channel. Regional Governor Maksym Kozytskyi posted a 13-second video showing a wide, curving, four-storey apartment building with parts of the upper floors missing or in rubble. The posts from the officials followed widespread air alerts across Ukraine and reports of cruise missiles entering Ukrainian airspace.

Persons: Maksym, Andriy Sadovy, Sadovy, Maksym Kozytskyi, Elaine Monaghan, Sandra Maler, Michael Perry, Simon Cameron, Moore Organizations: REUTERS, Regional, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Lviv, Maksym Kozytskiy, Ukrainian

☆ Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Is Just One of Innumerable Problems for Its Neighbors
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Jeffrey Gettleman | Finbarr O Reilly | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If there is a symbol of Ukrainian insouciance in the face of clear and present danger, it might just be this city. Nikopol lies within four miles of the besieged nuclear plant, but if you arrived on Monday and took a walk around, you might be fooled into thinking things were normal. People waited at bus stops, lugged heavy plastic bags as they exited supermarkets, pushed strollers down sidewalks. Not only is Nikopol a hair’s breadth from the nuclear power plant, it also gets shelled nearly every day by Russian troops just across the river. But about half the city’s prewar population of 100,000 still lives here, and there was no visible exodus, despite all the recent warnings of impending doom.

Persons: ”, Maksym Baklanov, it’s Locations: Nikopol

☆ Philip Morris to launch new $30 mln production facility in western Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KYIV, June 20 (Reuters) - Philip Morris International Inc (PM.N) will launch a new $30 million production facility in the Lviv region in western Ukraine in the first quarter of next year, the company said on Tuesday. "This investment reflects our commitment as Ukraine's long-term economic partner," Maksym Barabash, Chief Executive Officer of Philip Morris Ukraine, said in a statement. Some large multinationals that were active in Ukraine for many years have recently announced investment plans to launch production in the country's central and western regions, far from front lines. Nestlé (NESN.S) started construction in May of a 40-million Swiss franc ($42.7-million) production facility in the west of Ukraine. Philip Morris has invested over $700 million in the Ukrainian economy since the start of its operations in the country in 1994.

Persons: Philip Morris, Barabash, Philip Morris Ukraine, Olena Harmash, Timothy Heritage, Conor Humphries Organizations: Philip Morris International Inc, Gross, Unilever, Thomson Locations: Lviv, Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukrainian

☆ They Were Captured by the Russians. Then the Hardest Fight Began.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Carlotta Gall | Daniel Berehulak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Shot through the jaw and tongue by a sniper’s bullet last year in the last days of the grinding siege at the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine, Senior Sgt. Maksym Kushnir could not eat or talk, and could barely breathe. But when he hobbled out of a bunker last May with hundreds of other wounded Ukrainian soldiers in a surrender negotiated with Russian forces, there was no medical help or any sign of the Red Cross workers they had been promised. “For the first three to four days, they did not do anything. They expected me to die on my own.”

Persons: Maksym Kushnir, Sergeant Kushnir, ” Organizations: Russian, Red Cross Locations: Ukraine, Russian

☆ Ukraine Sees New Virtue in Wind Power: It’s Harder to Destroy
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Maria Varenikova | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

ODESA, Ukraine — The giants catch the wind with their huge arms, helping to keep the lights on in Ukraine — newly built windmills on plains along the Black Sea. The new Tyligulska wind farm stands only a few dozen miles from Russian artillery, but Ukrainians say it has a crucial advantage over most of the country’s grid. A wind farm can be temporarily disabled by striking a transformer substation or transmission lines, but these are much easier to repair than power plants. “It is our response to Russians,” said Maksym Timchenko, the chief executive of DTEK Group, the company that built the turbines, in the southern Mykolaiv region, the first phase of what is planned as Eastern Europe’s largest wind farm. “It is the most profitable and, as we know now, most secure form of energy.”

☆ Opinion: The banned Russian landmine with a deceptively poetic name
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Opinion Sasha Dovzhyk | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

A great deal of eeriness is due to the highly explosive Russian “petals.” “Petal” — or, “lepestok,” in Russian — is the poetic name of an internationally banned Russian-made anti-personnel landmine. The Russian wish for Ukraine appears to be death: to render Ukrainian land uninhabitable, to maim and kill those who live on it. But as one learns from Kataev’s tale, the Russian petals travel far and know no borders. In November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that 200,000 hectares (almost 50,000 acres) of Ukrainian land were contaminated with unexploded mines and shells. The rusted remains of a tank in Sviatohirsk, Donetsk region, pictured during a PEN Ukraine trip in April 2023.

☆ A Ukrainian man put messages on artillery shells fired at the Russians to honor his grandson killed in the fighting
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Ukrainian man put messages on artillery shells fired at Russian forces to honor his late grandson. "To Katsap hermits for Maksym Medynsky. "I put in my message all the hate I feel for Muscovites," Medynsky told the Times. The money raised from these artillery messages can be used for a variety of purchases, including military vehicle repairs, one unit told the Times. RevengeFor.com, a donation fund, takes money for these artillery messages.

☆ Russia-Ukraine War Russian Foreign Minister Wraps up Americas Tour at U.N.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Anushka Patil | Juston Jones | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Video For Valentyn, a Ukrainian soldier in the Donetsk region, the war’s death toll is more than a statistic. He is tasked with moving wounded troops — and dead bodies — away from the front lines, often under Russian fire. On the horizon, a military vehicle moves along a dusty road and screeches to a halt when it reaches the trees. A soldier named Valentyn parks it there for natural camouflage from Russian drones scouting for Ukrainian military positions. “This is a big tragedy for us.”“One more body is left behind with the Russian soldiers,” he added.

☆ Ukraine battles rage, Kyiv reported to rethink counter-offensive after leak
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Pavel Polityuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

The head of the Moscow-controlled part of Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, said Russian forces now held 75% of the city. As the battles ground on, U.S. media outlet CNN reported that Ukraine was forced to amend some military plans ahead of its long-anticipated counter-offensive because of the leak of dozens of secret documents. HOT ON THE EASTERN FRONTA Ukrainian counter-offensive has long been expected after months of attritional warfare in the east. Elsewhere, Russia's defence ministry said its forces destroyed a depot with 70,000 tonnes of fuel near Zaporizhzhia, and Ukraine reported widespread Russian shelling in northern regions. In a rare coordination between the warring parties, Russia and Ukraine carried out another prisoner swap, with 106 Russian captives freed in exchange for 100 Ukrainians.

☆ 'It was heartbreaking': Ukraine children back home after alleged deportation
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Anna Dabrowska | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

But once in Crimea, Russian officials said the children would be staying for longer. Dasha's mother Natalia said she had travelled from Ukraine to Crimea via Poland, Belarus and Moscow to get her daughters. "It was heartbreaking to look at children left behind who were crying behind the fence," she said. The children were taken to what Russians called stays in summer camps from occupied parts of Ukraine's Kharkiv and Kherson regions, Kuleba said. Save Ukraine said they came home on a previous mission last month that returned 18 children in total.

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