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An actor, a charity worker, an activist, and a journalist -- each had their own compelling reasons to get out of Russia as soon possible after it invaded Ukraine.
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, all public hospitals in the country have been operating under martial law and have been working 24/7. Some medical workers have moved their families into the hospitals with them, while volunteers have arrived to help.
A Ukrainian teenager recalls how a trip to get medicine ended with his unarmed father being gunned down in cold blood by a Russian soldier. Yura and his family have now escaped the war-torn town of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, and are sheltering at a safe location elsewhere in Ukraine.
Latvia has added 25 Russian celebrities to its list barring entry to the former Soviet republic over their support of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
What happens when Lithuanian volunteer Tomas cold calls random Russians to talk to them about the war in Ukraine? "It's like North Korea here," says one. Others repeat Kremlin propaganda. Most hang up. Tomas is part of an initiative that has made 93,000 phone calls to challenge their view of the war
The Belarusian government has shut down Ukraine's consulate in the western city of Brest and ordered an unspecified number of Ukrainian diplomats to leave the Ukrainian Embassy in Minsk as Belarus continues to assist Russian armed forces in their attacks against Ukraine.
A Ukrainian family is mourning the loss of two sons who were killed just 10 days apart while fighting in the Ukrainian military. Vasyl Vyshyvaniy, 28, was killed on March 3 in the Mykolayiv region during Russian shelling, while his older brother Kyrylo, 35, died in a Russian missile attack.
President Vladimir Putin says Russia will start forcing "unfriendly countries" -- including all European Union states -- to pay for their natural gas supplies in rubles.
The team of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has published details about a superyacht that they suspect belongs to President Vladimir Putin.
A 96-year-old survivor of the World War II-era Nazi concentration camps has been killed by Russian shelling in Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv.
Two-year-old Stepan Shpak was killed in Novye Petrivtsy, near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on March 16 in shelling by the Russian Army. His father spoke to Current Time on March 17.
A Russian Orthodox priest has been fined the equivalent of $330 by a regional court that found him guilty under war-related legislation rushed through parliament. Police first interviewed Father Ioann Burdin after he wrote an article on a parish website in which he used the word "war," which is ille
Ivan Fyodorov, the mayor of Melitopol in southern Ukraine, was taken prisoner by invading Russian forces on March 11 and held in captivity in a facility "fully controlled by the Russian military."
According to Pabriks, the defense minister of NATO member Latvia, the Baltic states will seek to change the “decades-long” military asymmetry on their borders with Russia in the face of Moscow's latest aggression. The Latvian defense minister spoke to Current Time on March 17 from Riga.
On March 6, Serhiy Perebyinis lost his entire family -- his wife and two children -- as they tried to evacuate from a Kyiv suburb. Their death from a Russian shell was documented by journalists on the scene, with iconic images of their lifeless bodies seen around the world.
Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor has blocked access to several more domestic and international media websites over the coverage of Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Amateur videos of Russian tanks and other armored vehicles being towed across fields and villages by Ukrainian tractors regularly go viral on social media. The military vehicles are usually abandoned, broken down, or out of fuel.
While embedded with Ukrainian troops, Current Time journalists Borys Sachalko and Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey came under fire during a Russian artillery assault. They filed this report on March 15 from the combat zone northwest of Kyiv, diving to the ground and scrambling for cover.
Kyiv authorities say a Russian shell hit a nine-story residential building in the Obolon district in the early morning hours of March 14. Current Time's Boris Sachalko and Ivan Lubish-Kirdey were on site and spoke with residents of the damaged building.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has reportedly traveled to Ukraine, where members of his feared militia force are believed to be fighting alongside regular Russian forces.
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