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Members of the pro-Ukrainian Russian ethnic Siberian Battalion rest at a military training close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. Ukraine's military has formed a battalion of soldiers made up entirely of Russian citizens who want to fight against Russian invasion.(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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Dismayed by Moscow's war, Russian volunteers are joining Ukrainian ranks to fight Putin's troops
By VASILISA STEPANENKO - Associated Press
Thu,12/14/23-12:05AM , 62 Reads
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ignited into war, back in Moscow, a young Russian who now goes by the name of Karabas was plunged into despair.
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An animal rescue team on a boat with a rescued dog in the flooded area after the dam collapse in Kherson, Ukraine, Thursday, June 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko)

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'All life should be valued': Volunteers rush to save animals after Ukraine dam collapse
By VASILISA STEPANENKO - Associated Press
Fri,06/09/23-12:17PM , 80 Reads
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — The rescue volunteer holds out his hand, but the dog, stranded on a floating island of debris in a southern Ukrainian city inundated by flooding, is too traumatized to approach.
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A woman is evacuated from a flooded neighborhood in Kherson, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023 after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed. Residents of southern Ukraine braced for a second day of swelling floodwaters on Wednesday as authorities warned that a Dnieper River dam breach would continue to unleash pent-up waters from a giant reservoir. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna)

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Flooding from dam break strands hundreds and leaves thousands with no drinking water in Ukraine
By VASILISA STEPANENKO - Associated Press
Wed,06/07/23-1:12AM , 189 Reads
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities rushed to rescue hundreds of people stranded on rooftops and supply drinking water to areas flooded by a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, in a growing humanitarian and ecological disaster along a river that forms part of the front line in the 15-month
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10 year old Khrystyna pets her kittens at her house in Bohoyavlenka, Ukraine, on Sunday, April 9, 2023. Khrystyna's father died last summer after a Russian shell hit his basement. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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In Ukrainian village, a family lives under cloud of shelling
By VASILISA STEPANENKO - Associated Press
Mon,04/10/23-4:26AM , 138 Reads
BOHOYAVLENKA, Ukraine (AP) — In a small village in eastern Ukraine the sounds of war echo in the distance while 10-year old Khrystyna Ksenofontova plays. She pets the neighborhood cats, paints and, like everyone else here, hopes the fighting will end soon.
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