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On 7 September, Serhii Balanchuk , a former football player for Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukrainian national football team, a lawyer and a soldier, was killed by Russian artillery shelling near Bakhmut. [41] On 12 September, Oleksandr Shapoval, a ballet dancer and choreographer at the National Opera of Ukraine was killed in a battle near Donetsk. [42]
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) found that more Russian soldiers died in the first year of the war in Ukraine than in all its other wars since World War II combined, an average 5,000 to 5,800 soldiers a month, vs 13,000 to 25,000 in Chechnya over 15 years and 14,000 to 16,000 in Afghanistan. Thus, the first year of the ...
Major Viktor Trehubov, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s ground forces in the east, told the Guardian that 7,000 Russian soldiers died in January in the battle for Pokrovsk, and 15,000 are wounded or ...
A New Zealander fighting on Ukraine’s southern front who asked to be identified by his nickname, Obi-One, said he and his unit of international soldiers write the names of killed or missing ...
A desk honoring her soldier son is being unveiled in the school he once attended. He died fighting in Ukraine. Grasping a bouquet of roses, black headscarf tied tight, a woman arrives in a ...
Shaun Pinner, former British soldier who joined the Ukrainian Army as a volunteer and was captured and sentenced to death by the authorities of the Donetsk People's Republic. Tseng Sheng-guang , Taiwanese indigenous veteran who volunteered in the Ukrainian International Legion and the Carpathian Sich Battalion, was the first East Asian soldier ...
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Skakun's battalion was deployed to protect the town of Henichesk, located near a crossing from Crimea to the mainland of Ukraine. [4] As a Russian armored column approached the position, Ukrainian forces decided to destroy the Henichesk bridge , to impede the advance of Russian troops travelling ...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians urged their government to do more to get Russia to release prisoners of war, voicing their anger on Sunday at a ceremony commemorating the second anniversary of ...