This photograph shows a warning sign which reads "Dangerous! Mines!" placed near destroyed houses during a demining operation in Hrakove village, Ukraine's Kharkiv Oblast, on April 18, 2023. (Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images)
A 14-year-old boy was killed, and a 12-year-old boy was injured by mines in a field in Mykolaiv Oblast's Bashtanka district on Oct. 15, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko reported.
According to the minister, the two boys were playing in an area where military operations had previously taken place.
Another deadly incident took place in Chernihiv Oblast on the same day. One local resident was killed and another injured by mines in a local forest, Klymenko reported.
Ukrainian officials said that nearly one-third of Ukraine's territory had been mined since the start of the full-scale invasion.
The interior minister noted that 248 people have been killed by mines, and 525 have been injured since February 2022.
Martin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press. He was also volunteering as an editor and translator at the Czech-language version of Ukraïner. Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, holding a bachelor's degree in security studies and history and a master's degree in conflict and democracy studies.
The two are implicated in the $100 million corruption scandal centered on the state-owned nuclear power company Energoatom, which has rocked the country since Monday.
Explosions were reported in the Russian city of Oryol overnight as authorities simultaneously declared missile and drone threats in the region, according to local residents and Russian media.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Nov. 12 to reopen the federal government and end a 43-day shutdown, the longest in U.S. history, multiple outlets reported.
The hearings were held after the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) charged eight suspects with bribery, abuse of office, and illicit enrichment in a large-scale corruption case involving the state nuclear power company Energoatom on Nov. 11.
Halushchenko is being investigated by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) as part of a large-scale corruption case into Energoatom involving Timur Mindich, a close associate of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Kyiv Independent’s Jared Goyette sat down with Brazilian volunteer fighter Everson Neves about his experience of fighting for Ukraine and the growing concerns over South American soldiers and their possible links to organized crime.
Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said the document, signed during his visit to Russia, would "open a new era in bilateral relations" between Moscow and Astana.
Ex-Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov was financing a construction of high-end houses near Kyiv. The money he spent was obtained through the energy corruption scheme now rocking Ukraine, the Bihus.info investigative journalism project reported on Nov. 12.
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