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How Donald Trump's Ukraine aid cuts undermine justice for Russian war crimes

US funding cuts are impacting Ukraine's pursuit of justice for war crimes. Organizations documenting atrocities face reduced capacity. This impacts investigations into alleged torture and abductions. Other nations are stepping up, but the loss of US support creates significant challenges. Victims may be denied justice as evidence gathering and prosecution…

The Economic Times

Inside the ghost museums of Ukraine: exhibits replaced by fragments of war and occupation

The curators of shattered historical buildings near the eastern frontline are preserving wartime memories as they reconstruct their collections

The Guardian - UK

The world is listening to Russia again. From the ruins of Ukraine, it makes me want to scream

The massacre in Bucha, the mass graves in Izium – it is as if these atrocities never happened. Now the truth is being taken out and shot, says writer Oleksandr Mykhed

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How the world’s first open-source digital map of mass graves could help bring justice to victims in Ukraine and other war zones

These newly reported discoveries [of mass graves] confirm our darkest fears. The people of Ukraine and the world deserve to know how exactly those buried in the forest near Izium have died. Amnesty International

The Conversation

‘I’m not sure I fully trust anyone who stayed’: Ukrainian city split by suspicion a year after Russian retreat

Anger over collaboration with Putin’s forces a year after they left is causing a deep rift among locals in Izium

The Guardian - UK

A time of 45 wars

Suffering written in disappearing ink

Salon

TV tonight: the remarkable, gruelling story of a gravedigger in Ukraine

The Grave follows the work of Vitaly Borovyi, who buried almost 450 bodies in a mass grave in Izium. Plus: The Long Shadow reaches its conclusion. Here’s what to watch this evening

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A murdered writer, his secret diary of the invasion of Ukraine – and the war crimes investigator determined to find it

When he realised the Russians were coming for him, Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Vakulenko buried his journal. Then he was taken away never to return. Now, his chronicle has been unearthed …

The Guardian - UK

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Russia and Ukraine issue tit-for-tat warnings after Moscow pulls out of Black Sea grain deal; the sole remaining resident of one Ukrainian village who curses Putin every morning

The Guardian - AU

Militia units commanded by Russia named in Izium abuse investigation

Exclusive: Four units from Donbas ‘people’s republics’ allegedly abused civilians in Ukrainian city where mass grave was found

The Guardian - UK

Liberated villages offer glimpse of precarious Ukrainian health system

Doctor Oleg Marchenko never knows what he will find when he visits villages retaken by Ukrainian forces in the east of the country last autumn. Mines lie scattered around and often there are no medical facilities left.

Reuters

In the mine-riddled Ukrainian city of Izium, liberated civilians still pay the price of war

The Ukranian city of Izium presents a gruesome reminder of the ongoing cost of war, as residents fall victim to land mines riddled throughout the liberated area long after the occupation ended.

ABC News

An infamous Russian unit that downed a civilian plane in 2014 was active in Ukraine

A secretive Russian military unit, known for its part in the deaths of hundreds of civilians on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 nearly a decade ago, was fighting in eastern Ukraine, NPR uncovered.

WEKU

In liberated Ukraine city, civilians still pay price of war

Ukrainians continue to suffer the consequences of Russia's invasion in the war-scarred city of Izium in Ukraine’s northeast

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WEKU

Human Rights Watch urges investigation of alleged use of land mines by Ukraine

Human Rights Watch suggests that Ukraine scattered so-called petal mines in and around the city of Izium. Petal mines are prohibited under the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, of which Ukraine is a signatory.

Reuters

Human Rights Watch urges Ukraine to investigate antipersonnel mine use

Advocacy group Human Rights Watch called on Ukraine on Tuesday to investigate accusations that its military used thousands of rocket-fired antipersonnel landmines in and around the eastern city of Izium when Russian forces occupied the area.

Reuters

A Ukrainian woman's harrowing quest to find her family

Nina Melenets finally buried her son in November, more than seven months after she said he was killed by shelling in their village in eastern Ukraine.

WEKU

How Russia is weaponizing the Ukrainian winter

Ukraine says Russia is using the cold as a weapon against Ukrainians, by targeting the country's ability to heat and power homes. Repair crews are struggling to restore power to damaged areas.

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Evening Standard

UN nuclear inspectors head to Ukraine after Russian radioactive ‘dirty bomb’ accusations

The U.N. nuclear watchdog will send inspectors into Ukraine at Kyiv’s request after Russian claims it was planning on using a “dirty bomb”.

The Independent UK

Ukraine hospital's staff fight dark memories of occupation

Medical staff at the Izium hospital in eastern Ukraine are fighting the memories of six deadly months under Russian occupation

The Guardian - UK

‘He joined the enemy’: a Ukraine soldier on fighting his father on Russian side

Artur is in touch by text with father Oleg, a colonel in pro-Moscow forces, and is trying hard not to let hate consume him

The Independent UK

Orphan watched dad die, now awaits future in Ukraine shelter

A young Ukrainian boy with disabilities is now an orphan after his father was taken by cancer in the devastated eastern city of Izium

The Independent UK

10 torture sites in 1 town: Russia sowed pain, fear in Izium

Russian torture in Izium was arbitrary, widespread and absolutely routine for both civilians and soldiers throughout the city, an AP investigation has found

The Independent UK

10 torture sites in 1 town: Russia sowed pain, fear in Izium

Russian torture in Izium was arbitrary, widespread and absolutely routine for both civilians and soldiers throughout the city, an AP investigation has found

The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

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