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An Astronaut Saw a Russian Missile Head for Ukraine From Space. Then She Went Where It Landed

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By Amira Barkhush
| UNITED24 Media
From roughly 450 kilometers above Earth, Jannicke Mikkelsen was looking through the window of her spacecraft when she noticed something moving between her and the Earth below. She saw a fireball, a meteor maybe? But it behaved differently. “I think orange means it’s man-made. Where are we?” Mikkelsen checks where the spacecraft was passing, “I see what’s happened. It’s traveled from Russia. It’s landed in Ukraine. I’m pretty sure that’s a missile attack.
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Ukraine Says Goodbye to Oleksii Yukov, Who Spent Decades Bringing the Fallen Home

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By Amira Barkhush
| UNITED24 Media
For over 20 years, Oleksii Yukov went where few others would, searching battlefields for the missing and bringing the fallen back to their families. Today, Ukraine gathered in Kyiv to say goodbye. On August 8, Ukraine bid farewell to Oleksii Yukov at St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in the center of Kyiv and later at Independence Square. Born in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, Yukov dedicated most of his life to searching for those killed in war and returning their remains to their families.
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Russia’s Hidden Weapon of War: Sexual Violence Against Ukrainians

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By Amira Barkhush
| UNITED24 Media
Since Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, survivors have reported sexual violence in occupied towns, detention centers, and prisons. Years of investigations suggest these were not isolated acts, but part of a broader pattern that has become one of the war’s most difficult crimes to document—and one of its hardest to prosecute. This article contains graphic descriptions of torture, sexual violence, and other forms of abuse suffered by Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians.
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