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Reporter’s notebook: Inside Ukraine’s nuclear plants at war
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Reporter’s notebook: Inside Ukraine’s nuclear plants at war

by Dominic Culverwell

Walking around a nuclear power plant in north-western Ukraine, it feels like there are as many soldiers as there are plant workers. The guns are an unnerving sight, but not unexpected — the border with Belarus is just 65 kilometers away. At the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, employees at the Rivne nuclear power plant prepared for occupation, as Russian troops entering from Belarus swiftly captured the Chornobyl plant. Then, days later, the Russians did something even more egregious — th

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Ukraine war latest: Three Russian ships, MiG-31 aircraft damaged in major overnight strikes on Crimea

Key developments on April 25-26: * Three Russian ships, MiG-31 aircraft damaged in major overnight strikes on Crimea, SBU reports * Ukrainian drones strike Russia's Yaroslavl oil refinery, General Staff says amid latest mass attack inside Russia * US intercepts Iranian 'shadow fleet' vessel Sevan in Arabian Sea, US Central Command says * Germany believes Russia responsible for global cyber campaign on Signal, WhatsApp, media reports Ukrainian forces struck three Russian ships, a fighter je

News from occupied Ukraine: FSB officers killed in Donetsk, 75% of new property buyers in Mariupol come from Russia, report says

This weekly update from the Kyiv Independent aims to shed light on the situation facing Ukrainians living under Russian occupation and the ever-tightening control of information imposed by the Kremlin. This week, the Kyiv Independent published a long-read investigation into the endangering of pro-Ukrainian partisans and activists on Russia-occupied territories on the part of the Yellow Ribbon organization and their backers. Read it here. Key news as of April 26: * 12 Russian FSB officers kil

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A Western-funded classified program supported a "non-violent resistance" initiative inside Russian-occupied Ukraine for more than three years that encouraged civilians to engage in "suicidal" activities despite credible reports of the deaths, torture, and imprisonment of activists, the Kyiv Independent can reveal. Russian-occupied Ukraine is one of the most heavily surveilled and most repressive territories in the world, and some of the activities Yellow Ribbon and its sister initiative Zla Mav

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