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EU imposes new sanctions against Yanukovych, his son Oleksandr.

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The sanctions were introduced due to their role in helping Russia to undermine Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty. Ex-President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted by the EuroMaidan Revolution in 2014 and fled to Russia. In 2019 a Ukrainian court sentenced him to 13 years in jail in absentia for treason and aiding Russia's aggression.

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The Kyiv Independent’s Jared Goyette speaks with a Canadian volunteer, Brittney Shki-Giizis, who left the Canadian military to fight in Ukraine. A former tank instructor, she explains why she chose to come to the front, how she learned Ukrainian to serve in a Ukrainian unit, and how the war’s shift toward drones led her to become an FPV (first-person view) drone pilot.

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