Having spent two months beneath Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol under constant shelling and bombing, surviving civilians tell their stories Russia’s 70-day siege of Azovstal steelworks, the last bastion of the port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, approached a bitter end in early May after the last Ukrainian troops holed up inside surrendered to pro-Russian forces.

The story of Gennady Bondarenko - a teacher from the island of Shikotan, to whom they reported four times At the end of March, a 53-year-old teacher of chemistry and biology from the village of Malokurilskoye on the island of Shikotan Gennady Bondarenko drew up four administrative protocols on discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The accusations were based on the words of his colleagues, students of the eighth grade, as well as employees of the local administration.

On the morning of July 29, in a self -proclaimed DPR, and then the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the Ukrainian military allegedly struck the installation Himars in prison in Elena, where Ukrainian prisoners were. At least 40 people were killed, another 130 were injured. The Ukrainian General Staff was assured that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were not struck by Elena.

Thousands of people are returning from the wars that Russia wage with disabilities. This is how they live on Almost immediately after the outbreak of war in Ukraine, wounded soldiers began to enter the Russian military hospitals. Many of them will have a disability for life. Despite the fact that Russian officials call what is happening “special operation”, its participants are formally equal to war veterans - such a law was adopted back in March.