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The seven-year-old, along with her mum and grandmother are among 4,500 displaced Ukrainians facing Christmas without their husbands, brothers, fathers and sons still fighting in the war.

They are responsible for ambushes, destroying infrastructure and even, allegedly, assassinations. In Kharkiv, Balakiya and Izyum, Bel Trew meets the ordinary citizens who have become the secret weapon in the fight against Putin

Villagers describe withdrawal as most Russian soldiers fled but others were caught in Ukrainian attacks.

Alika Zubets, aged four, was considered to be an 'unaccompanied minor' under Home Office regulations, as she was travelling with her grandmother Tanya, rather than her parents.

Little Alika Zubets' extended family are in the UK, but her parents remain in war-torn Ukraine caring for disabled relatives leaving the tot travelling with her grandma to reach safety

Mykola Kulichenko, from the village of Vyshneve, just outside Kyiv in the Bucha Raion of Kyiv Oblast, was chucked into a grave alongside his older brother in March with Vladimir Putin's forces believing he was dead

A top Warsaw academy is among the clubs who have offered safety and training to teenage boys with big ambitions

International correspondent Bel Trew has spent weeks covering the war in Ukraine. Here, she recounts some of the most indelible scenes from her time in the country

Special report: One prisoner recalls how a man was beaten to death next to him. Another recounts being stripped, stabbed and subjected to electric shocks. In recently liberated Trostyanets in Sumy, Bel Trew speaks to torture victims and uncovers fresh evidence of possible war crimes in northeast Ukraine

The strategic port city in southern Ukraine has been bombarded with suspected banned munitions and is bracing for a renewed Russian onslaught as Vladimir Putin repositions his forces, reports Bel Trew

Activist Dmitry Ivanov returned home one day to find the message "Don't betray your country, Dima" written on his door, alongside a large letter "Z". Acts of vandalism like this one to intimidate anti-war activists in Russia have become more common as the war in Ukraine rages on. The letter…