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Meet Edinburgh's 'oldest married couple' who were first hitched during WWII

John and Catherine Ronxin, 97 and 98, are long-standing residents of South Queensferry, after moving there shortly after the Second World War, and have just celebrated 79 years married.

Edinburgh Live

Aftershocks of war that echo down the generations

Letters: Readers are moved by Jonathan Freedland’s account of his grandmother’s death in a rocket attack on London towards the end of the second world war

The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian man opens up about his experience of escaping 'real hell' Mariupol

'During the Second World War and the occupation of Mariupol, there was no such horror. Even Hitler did not allow such atrocities as the Russian army'

Wales Online

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Ukraine's fight for its identity is more than a century old – it is not about to stop

In just three weeks, the war in Ukraine has seen what could be the largest refugee movement since the second world war.

The Conversation

Russia suffering military casualties in Ukraine ‘on scale not seen since the Second World War’, say Western officials

‘This is not going according to plan for the Russians’, an official said

Evening Standard

Holocaust survivor, 96, killed after Russian attack on Kharkiv

Boris Romantschenko survived four camps during the Second World War

Evening Standard

No country can stay on sidelines of Ukraine crisis, says Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg

India has a special responsibility in Indo-Pacific and South Asia, says delegate

The Hindu

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Holocaust survivor, 96, killed by shelling in Ukraine after surviving four concentration camps

Boris Romanchenko was killed by a missile in Kharkiv 77 years after the end of the Second World War

The Independent UK

Hero survivor, 95, of four Nazi concentration camps is killed by shell in Putin's war

Boris Romanchenko had also been incarcerated in the Second World War in the Bergen-Belsen, Peenemünde, and Mittelbau-Dora camps, but has now died in the Russian shelling of Ukraine

Daily Mirror

What is Nato and why was it formed?

Military alliance created in aftermath of Second World War in hope of bringing an end to bloody conflict between nations

The Independent UK

What is Nato and why was it formed?

Military alliance created in aftermath of Second World War in hope of bringing an end to bloody conflict between nations

The Independent UK

Wales faces the worst food crisis since the Second World War

Farmers are leaving fields unsown, massive cost pressures are building in the system - the repercussions will be felt for years

Wales Online

Judge Rinder compares Ukraine refugee crisis to Second World War

TV star is currently in Poland reporting on the conflict between Ukraine and Russia

The Independent UK

TV star Mariella Frostrup backs our appeal and says: Dig deep

Another star of the entertainment industry has backed our Evening Standard Ukraine Appeal, as the number of people fleeing the Russian invasion approached three million in what has become Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War.

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The Conversation

Why Russian attacks on innocent Ukrainian citizens will probably intensify

In 1942, a citizen of the southern Soviet Union city of Rostov-on-Don recalled its bombardment, documented in the book Rostov Under the Shadow of the Swastika by Vladislav Vyacheslavovich Smirnov:

The Independent UK

What is Nato and why was it formed?

Military alliance created in aftermath of Second World War in hope of bringing an end to bloody conflict between nations

The Independent UK

Nato: the western alliance which protects the security of Europe

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was founded in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Wales Online

Russian media raises spectre of nuclear attack on Japan

Islands between Russia and Japan have been source of territorial dispute dating to end of Second World War

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Daily Mirror

Ukraine-Russia war: Refugee numbers 'could rise to 4 million in days to come'

More than 2.2 million people have fled Ukraine and officials have been briefed that the crisis is the worst since the Second World War

The Independent UK

Meet the grandparents trying to escape Ukraine: ‘I lived through the Second World War. And now we have this’

The elderly living in war-torn Ukraine are often unable to leave their homes despite air raids and shelling. David Cohen meets two grandmothers who, with the help of their daughters, managed to reach the Polish border

Liverpool Echo

Dad's desperation to help his mum-in-law flee Ukraine

“My wife said to me she doesn’t want her mother, who was born during the Second World War, to die in another war"

The Conversation

How a makeshift PoW chapel from WWII continues to connect Ukrainians and Britons

On the outside, it is a shabby corrugated iron hut. But 70 years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War, this small shed in a rural southern corner of Scotland became a place of worship for a group of devout Ukrainian prisoners of war (PoWs). Today it operates…

The Independent UK

What is Nato and why was it formed?

Military alliance created in aftermath of Second World War in hope of bringing an end to bloody conflict between nations

The Independent UK

What is Nato and why was it formed?

Military alliance created in aftermath of Second World War in hope of bringing an end to bloody conflict between nations

The Conversation

Vladimir Putin points to history to justify his Ukraine invasion, regardless of reality

Vladimir Putin’s interest in history is well known. He has accused Poland of starting the Second World War. He maintains that the Soviet Union liberated the western world from Nazism and any discussion over that view is “historical revisionism.”

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