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Ukraine rebases businesses from war front to shield vital producers

Oleg Averyanov's factory produced fire trucks and employed 600 people until it was forced to halt operations and close its doors as a Russian invasion force poured over the border into his region in northeastern Ukraine on Feb. 24.

Reuters

‘I couldn’t do it’: the Chernihiv coroner who faced the body of a friend

Yurii Fenenko dreaded the day he knew would surely come, when the body of someone he was close to was brought in

The Guardian - UK

Bodies of 87 found as Ukraine suffers biggest single death toll from Russian strike

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 87 bodies were discovered under the ruins of the Desna training centre following a Russian missile attack

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Chernihiv residents recall dramatic downing of Russian fighter jet

In the first weeks of Russia’s Ukraine invasion, residents of Chernihiv were shaken by heavy gunfire followed by billowing black smoke. Ukrainian forces had shot down a Russian fighter jet, whose two pilots parachuted into the northern city. It was a dramatic day at the critical start of a war…

France 24

HRW documents ‘apparent war crimes’ by Russian forces in Ukraine

Leading US-based rights group says Russian forces had subjected civilians to summary executions, torture in two regions.

Al Jazeera

Russia continues to bomb schools, bringing war crimes scrutiny

The International Criminal Court, prosecutors across the globe and Ukraine’s prosecutor general are investigating more than 8,000 reports of potential war crimes in Ukraine.

Chicago Sun-Times

Russia 'could swap Ukrainian steel plant siege heroes with imprisoned officers'

Even as hundreds of soldiers evacuated their Mariupol bunker, Russian forces continued to pound Ukraine with missiles, killing ten civilians and injuring three in a strike on Chernihiv

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Russian air strike kills eight in northern Ukraine - emergency service

Eight people were killed and 12 wounded in a Russian air strike on the village of Desna in the northern Ukrainian region of Chernihiv on Tuesday, the regional emergency service said.

Reuters

Ukrainian servicemen load bodies of Russian soldiers onto refrigerated rail cars

Ukrainian military authorities loaded the bodies of Russian soldiers collected after fighting in the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions onto refrigerated rail cars on Friday.

Reuters

Russia hits east Ukraine as war pushes Finland closer to Nato

Putin’s forces were said to have targeted Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv and Sumy on Thursday as they continued their offensive

Evening Standard

Indonesian escapes Chernihiv after hiding in underground bunker

Plastics worker spent three weeks holed up at Chernihiv factory as Indonesian embassy hatched multiple rescue plans.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine’s mine-sniffing dog given medal after finding over 200 explosives

Volodymyr Zelenskiy presents award to jack russell Patron, who is seen as a symbol of resistance against Russia

The Guardian - UK

VIDEO: Young Mum Who Survived Russian Bombardments Refuses To Leave Husband

Anna Chugai said that that attack destroyed their house, and left 47 dead even though her mother thankfully survived.

Zenger

Destruction, desolation and retreat: Ukraine’s defiance against Russia will shape modern history forever

Special Report: The final outcome is yet to be played out but two months after the invasion began, the magnitude of the war is clear, writes Kim Sengupta

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Football in Ukraine: ‘Where will the kids train now?’

Chernihiv has been destroyed by Russian forces, including the football stadium, but the local population is refusing to give up

Zenger

VIDEO: Good Boy: Patron The Pooch Joins Clean-Up In Devastated Chernihiv

Zenger News obtained the photos and video from the State Emergency Service (SES) of Ukraine.

The Guardian - UK

Charred houses, cratered lawns and an epic clean-up on road to Chernihiv

Ukrainians living in territory vacated by Russian forces are counting the cost of occupation

ABC News

Russia's unspeakable horrors in northern Ukraine: Torture, murder and cluster bombs

Vladimir Putin's forces may have retreated from northern Ukraine for now, but many residents fear their nightmare is not yet over. WARNING: This article contains images and details readers might find distressing.

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The Independent UK

AP PHOTOS on Day 49: Surrounded by rubble, Ukrainians mourn

Both were in need of an embrace, the 12-year-old boy standing in the debris that was once his home. And the matted cat that wandered into the rubble. The child picked up the animal and they clutched one another amid the death and destruction of Chernihiv, a northern Ukrainian city…

Los Angeles Times

'Why did Putin do this to us?' A battered Ukrainian city emerges from a siege

CHERNIHIV, Ukraine — It was a brilliant, sunny day in this industrial city in northeastern Ukraine. The bombs started falling along Chornovola Street around noon.

The Independent UK

Feeding a city under siege: Meet the volunteers who saved Chernihiv civilians from starvation

From bringing in supplies through secret routes to delivering sandwiches amid Russian shelling, citizens in Ukraine’s northern city of Chernihiv tell Bel Trew how they risked their lives every day to provide food to thousands of people battling hunger and thirst

Daily Mirror

Brave bomb squad dog helps disposal experts in Ukraine clean up Russian landmines

The squad confirmed Patron is its top landmine tracker and has been regularly earning his tasty treat at the end of each day tracking down the explosive devices

Reuters

Ukrainian villagers count dead after weeks confined in school basement

The names of the dead are scrawled on the peeling wall of a school basement where residents say more than 300 people were trapped for weeks by Russian occupiers in Yahidne, a village north of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

The Independent UK

AP PHOTOS on Day 43: Gathering the dead, clutching to life

At a home in Bucha, from where Russian soldiers recently retreated, municipal workers remove a dead body. In a school yard in Chernihiv, a boy clutching a loaf of bread is part of a crowd receiving humanitarian aid. And at a training camp near Kharkiv, a soldier practices rappelling down…

Daily Mirror

Children sleep next to dead bodies in Ukrainian village seized by Russian troops

Around 130 people spent weeks sheltering from the bombing in a school basement in war-torn Chernihiv, north-west of Kyiv, after troops took men, women and children from their homes at gunpoint

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