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Ukrainian TV camera operator killed in combat during liberation of Balakliia, Kharkiv Oblast

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Oleksiy Yurchenko, a cameraman for the Priamy television channel, enlisted in the Ukrainian army at the start of Russia's full-scale invasion. Alongside years of experience as a camera operator, Yurchenko had previously fought in the Donbas in 2015-2016.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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