Destroyed: a bridge in the town of Chernihiv near Kyiv in the north of Ukraine.
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Russia’s military machine is finding the terrain in the Donbas region extremely challenging.
The leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania meeting with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Putin, in Kyiv on June 16.
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A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
EPA-EFE/Oleg Petrasyuk
Survey shows that Ukrainians’ attitudes about a peace settlement and any territorial concessions to the Russians differs dependng on their experience of war.
Telegram users in Russia get access to more information than their compatriots who only watch television.
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Most Russians get their news from government-controlled television. But those who look to Telegram, an online platform, are more likely to have views that break from the official position.
‘A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding,’ a 19th-century painting by Russian artist Vassily Maximov.
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The idea of a ‘witch’ was usually female in Western Europe, but not so in Orthodox Russia – partly because of the period’s rigid social hierarchies.
British citizens Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner and Moroccan Saaudun Brahim.
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The prosecution and death sentences handed out to two British and one Moroccan national fighting alongside Ukrainian troops contravenes the Geneva Conventions.
Rouble bubble?
EPA
Many predicted Russia’s currency would just keep plunging, but it hasn’t.
EPA-ERE/Sergei Ilnitsky
Russia’s military planners were not expecting such fierce Ukrainian resistance, especially in regions it has occupied since 2014.
Ukrainian soldiers meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
Alamy
Treatment of POWs by Ukraine and Russia is breaking international rules.
Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner with Moroccan Brahim Saadoun, who were captured after the siege of the the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
Image taken from footage of the Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic
A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner with Moroccan Brahim Saadoun, who were captured after the siege of the the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
Image taken from footage of the Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic
The two Britons have rights under the laws of war. It’s not clear they are being respected.
EPA-EFE/Anatoly Maltsev
Atrocities are made easier when one country’s troops are taught to despise the people they are invading.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (R) met in Ankara, Turkey on June 8 2022 to discuss Ukrainian grain exports.
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Negotiations between Russia and Turkey to ensure safe passage of Ukrainian grain hint at a new era of global food diplomacy.
Alamy
Peace between Russia and Ukraine will not be the end of the global crisis, say experts.
Damaged buildings ruined by attacks are seen in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine in May 2022.
(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Third-country nationals are left powerless in the face of bureaucracies of asylum with only the help of others in the same situation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Russia’s commissioner for entrepreneurs’ rights during a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow on May 26, 2022.
(Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Russia’s war in Ukraine calls for drawing a line between power and luck. Putin, who was widely considered among the most powerful people in the world, may have been simply lucky.
Russia is losing tanks at an astonishing rate.
AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti
Weapons manufacturers in China are likely to benefit most from Russia’s losses, while US companies will also see a boon.
A Ukrainain boy sits in a swing at a playground outside a building destroyed during attacks in Irpin, Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kyiv, in May 2022.
(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Ukraine is facing a struggle for survival. Its population could fall to 30 million by the time the war ends, with cities destroyed, crops expropriated and thousands already killed and wounded.
Range, precision and lethality: the Himars missile system.
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Pledges by the US and UK to supply longer-range artillery is really good news for Ukraine, but bad news for the invading Russians.
Yuri Shevchuk of the band DDT performs in 1987. In May 2022 Shevchuk was charged with a misdemeanor for insulting Russian President Vladimir Putin during a concert.
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Can social media posts sustain Russia’s endangered dissident cultures?