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Russia's recruitment of foreign nationals amounts to human trafficking, Amnesty International says
Russia targets people from low-income countries, uses coercion to send them to active combat after two weeks, a new Amnesty International report says.
US destroys 5 Iranian oil tankers, 3 linked to Russia's shadow fleet, Ukrainian official says
Three of the tankers, the Kaviz, Charminar, and Riesco, have direct links to Russia's shadow fleet and have been involved in transporting Russian oil, Ukraine's sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said.
Russia is going all in on a baby boom
The Kremlin promises money to people who have children, expands benefits for large families, and publicly "cares" about pregnant students and schoolgirls. The sums involved are enormous: by 2030, the national "Family" project is expected to receive funding equivalent to about two of Ukraine's annual state budgets in terms of expenditures. The money will go toward measures intended, in one way or another, to boost the birth rate — from subsidized mortgages for young families to promoting large
Ex-Ukrainian PM Yulia Svyrydenko to head KSE Business School
According to the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Yulia Svyrydenko will focus on business education, taking on the role after a year as prime minister.
We asked Ukrainian soldiers about Russian losses passing 1.5 million
Russia's total military losses in Ukraine have reached 1,500,870, Ukraine's General Staff said on Sept. 9, marking another grim milestone in the war for the Kremlin. It took roughly two years and three months for the Russian Armed Forces to incur their first 500,000 casualties. Moscow has now suffered roughly the same number in just the past 15 months, as technology increasingly shapes the battlefield and drones expand the kill zone almost daily. The Kremlin's total personnel losses in Ukraine
Russian drones strike Kyiv gas station, injure four, as near-daily attacks continue
Russian jet-powered drones struck Kyiv in the morning on Sept. 10, injuring four people and damaging a gas station in the Holosiivskyi district.
About Chornobyl
Chornobyl in northern Ukraine is the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, which occurred in 1986. The site is approximately 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Kyiv. Russian forces seized the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone on February 24, 2022, occupying the contaminated area until late March 2022 and causing disruptions to radiation monitoring. Ukrainian authorities restored control after Russian troops withdrew in the spring of 2022.
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