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Ukrainian organization's building in Canada's Edmonton vandalized with swastikas.

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Police are investigating the case after multiple swastikas were spray-painted on the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada's Edmonton building at around 3 a.m. on May 13. Two swastikas had been spray-painted on either side of the building's front doors and two more appeared on a banner that reads "Stop Putin. Stop War." Orysia Boychuk, president of the Canadian Ukrainian Congress Alberta Provincial Council called on the local police to investigate the incident as a hate crime.

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Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on Jan. 10 condemned Iran's crackdown on anti-government protests and called on the international community to increase pressure on Tehran, drawing parallels between its domestic repression and its conduct on the global stage.

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Russia’s takeover of Crimea did not begin in 2014. In the first part of a new documentary, The Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigation Unit looks at how Russia began moving to seize the peninsula immediately after Ukraine gained independence in 1991.

"We are surging investment into our preparations (...) ensuring that Britain’s Armed Forces are ready to deploy, and lead, the multinational force (in) Ukraine, because a secure Ukraine means a secure U.K.," U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey said.

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