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The UK is sending more ambulances, fire engines, and funding to Ukrainian health experts as part of continued support to the country. “The new ambulances, fire engines and funding for health experts announced today will better equip the Ukrainian people to deliver vital health care and save lives,” said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. According to the press release, the UK is supplying 22 new ambulances to Ukraine equipped with paramedic kits and medical grab bags. In addition, frontline medical aid charity, UK-Med, will receive up to £300,000 to help train Ukrainian doctors, nurses and paramedics on how to deal…

The United States has created a website where Americans can apply for sponsorship of Ukrainians who are temporarily seeking asylum in the country. That's according to the BBC, Ukrinform reports. Last week, the Department of Homeland Security announced the Uniting for Ukraine initiative, which allows Americans to sponsor Ukrainian refugees in the United States. The website is open only to potential supporters in the United States. It contains links to forms that confirm a person's financial capacity to be a sponsor. Read also: Nearly 5.2M refugees have fled Ukraine since Russian invasion - UN According to the Ukrainian Embassy in…

In temporarily occupied areas, the Russian invasion forces are exerting pressure on local farmers and stealing Ukrainian grain. That’s according to the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmya Denisova, Ukrinform reports. “In Svativskyi district, Luhansk region, the authorities of the so-called ‘LPR’ are forcing farmers to start sowing works. The ‘authorities’ of the self-proclaimed republic promise farmers free fuel and lubricants to then nationalize the crops in favor of the occupiers, leaving farmers only a small share.  Agrarians in Svativskyi district show no support for such a proposal, which is why the authorities of the so-called ‘LPR’ are putting…

The UNESCO Committee granted the request of the Ukrainian side to cancel its session set to be held in Russia. This was announced on Telegram by Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko, Ukrinform reports. "Another victory for our cultural front. The 45th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee will not take place in Kazan. The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has learned about the positive decision on our appeal  "the statement reads. Read also: UNESCO: More than 50 cultural heritage sites in Ukraine affected by Russian invasion Tkachenko thanked Ukraine’s Mission to UNESCO and…

The Russan invaders have deported about 500,000 Ukrainians from the temporarily occupied territories. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelensky in a video address to the Portuguese Parliament, broadcast on a national telethon, Ukrinform reports. "The Russian occupiers have already removed at least 500,000 of our citizens from the territory they have occupied. There used to be people there, and now they’re gone. It’s 500,000 people. This is deportation, this is what the worst totalitarian regimes of the past did," Zelensky stressed. Read also: Zelensky: 1,126 Ukrainian civilians confirmed killed by Russian invaders According to the Ukrainian leader, the Russians…

Journalists searched for the Russian occupier Danilo Agafonov, who took the phone from 10-year-old Ivanka from Trostyanets. "Do you remember 10-year-old Ivanka from Trostyanets, from whom the occupiers took away a telephone and a power bank with rhinestones at the checkpoint?She was sad then, but soon the Ukrainian military returned her favorite pink phone and made the little girl happy. We decided to make everyone even happier and found an orc who took Ivanka's phone. Here he is, 19-year-old Danil Agafonov from the Smolensk region. The driver is a mechanic from the Kantemirov division, which our Armed Forces defeated in the Sumy…

Preserving Evidence Critical for War Crimes Prosecutions https://youtu.be/EVPrt3zACZo Russian forces committed a litany of apparent war crimes during their occupation of Bucha, a town about 30 kilometers northwest of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, from March 4 to 31, 2022, Human Rights Watch said in a detailed report released today. Human Rights Watch researchers who worked in Bucha from April 4 to 10, days after Russian forces withdrew from the area, found extensive evidence of summary executions, other unlawful killings, enforced disappearances, and torture, all of which would constitute war crimes and potential crimes against humanity. “Nearly every corner in Bucha is…

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https://youtu.be/BPg6CNkmj3A ITV News visited Russia's rural heartlands, the kind of region from which many troops are conscripted, where some families are now mourning the loss of loved ones killed in the fighting in Ukraine. In a place where almost all information is state-controlled - and where the Nazi advance in World War Two still casts a long shadow - ITV News found virtually rock-solid support for Putin's war.