When links with the past are destroyed, there is a loss of opportunity to continue a way of life, to live in the place one’s parents and grandparents lived.
Vigil lanterns at the Bitter Memory of Childhood monument commemorating the Ukrainian famine.
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With winter approaching, analysts suggest there will no be any major breakthroughs in the next few months.
Activist Sair Smedlja stands in front of the Crimean Tatar self-governing assembly (the Mejlis) which was closed down when the Russians occupied Crimea.
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A Tatar leader claims that Crimean Tatars who are arrested by their Russian occupiers are beaten and tortured.
Residents of Kherson queue up to meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky after the liberation of the city in November 2022.
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Venturing out onto the city’s streets carries danger. But there is little reason to go out anyway. Few shops and still fewer places of entertainment are open.
Ukraine’s successes against Russia’s Black Sea fleet have increased confidence in its ability to protect shipping in and out of its ports.
The exterior of Shifa hospital in Gaza City is seen on Nov. 10, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas near the facility.
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Benjamin Jensen, American University School of International Service
The Taliban and the Islamic State group are among the militant groups that have been known to use civilians as human shields in the past, in order to try to shift their opponents’ war calculations.
Moscow has pulled the plug on yet another safety valve preventing conflict with the west.
People holding signs calling for an end to genocide in the Gaza Strip have been a common occurrence at pro-Palestinian protests.
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People talk about genocide in a few different ways, ranging from technical to colloquial – but a war of words does not replace a path to peace, a genocide scholar writes.
Ukraine needs some successes on the battlefield if it is to maintain international support.
A worker rakes wheat in a granary on a farm near Kyiv in August 2023, a month after Russia pulled out of a deal aimed at protecting ships carrying Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea.
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The Ukraine war’s impact on food insecurity is critical, but there is more to the picture. The main problem is that capitalism allows food and other basic needs to become precarious commodities.
Ukrainian military will have to adapt their camouflage as part of preparations for the upcoming winter war.
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Harsh winter conditions will affect equipment and morale in Ukraine.
Friendly relations: Vladimir Putin with the leader of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas in 2021.
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Russia has strong ties with Israel as well as many Arab states, so it is well placed as a mediator. But does war in the Middle East suit Moscow’s priorities?
Away from the fighting, information warfare is proving to be an active front in the Ukraine war.
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Turkey walks a fine line between NATO commitments and Western alliances and its dependence on Russia for financial resources and trade.
President Biden is seeking to push through more funding for the Ukraine war, but is being stymied by the House speaker election not being resolved.
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