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Anton Bezverkhyi was KIA yesterday by Russian occupiers in eastern Ukraine.
He defended his country w/ courage just like his comrade, Yana Chervona (pictured together)
who was KIA on April 2. Anton was 25. War always takes the best.

 

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Posing in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) building in Kyiv are ministry staffers wearing their vyshyvanka, which is the traditional embroidered Ukrainian blouse worn by both sexes.
The embroidery pattern can often say a lot about which oblast or part of the country an individual is from. Today is Vyshyvanka Day in Ukraine, a big holiday there which also signals the beginning of spring.

 

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Ukraine National Police stationed at airports, stadiums, train stations etc. will now be armed with the MP-5 9x19mm Parabellum submachine guns rather than the traditional Kalashnikov assault rifle.
The MP-5 is a far less lethal weapon for halting and then arresting an offender in case of opening fire in a crowded venue.

 

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Ukraine FM Pavlo Klimkin (row 2 far left) at the Brussels meetings of the EU Eastern Partnership. The EU/EP consists of Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, and Moldova.
Nations that have already applied for EU membership such as Ukraine and Georgia, or are considering applying for European Union membership in the future.

 

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RAF Typhoon's intercept Russian planes off of Estonia yesterday. Above, a rather rare Il-22 Coot-B and one of its escorting Su-27 Flankers.

 

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Pastoral setting in Vinnytsya oblast in central Ukraine.

 

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UA medics celebrating Vyshyvanka Day on the war-front in eastern Ukraine.

Vyshyvanka Day parade in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine. Slovyansk was the first Ukrainian city to fall to Russian forces in 2014, but was liberated days later.

 

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Catholic church on Kontraktova Street in Kyiv.

 

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Part of the power plant in Shchastya (Happiness), Luhansk oblast.

 

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Vasyl Dzus was KIA at Vodyane, Donetsk Oblast on May 16. Born in
Ivano-Frankivsk on Sept 25, 1974. Enlisted in 2018, first serving as
ensign with the 114th Tactical Aviation Brigade “Zakhid” and then
with the 79th Air Assault Brigade.

 

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If you go up to the roof of this ruined building in the occupied city of Luhansk and gaze north.....

You can see the destroyed Luhansk International Airport, which the Russians shelled for months to dislodge the Ukrainian soldiers (Cyborgs) holding out there.

 

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Ukraine Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and all members of the Poroshenko cabinet and administration have resigned this morning in preparation for the inauguration of
president-elect Volodmyr Zelensky on May 20.

 

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The inauguration of Volodmyr Zelensky on May 20 will be held at Mariinsky Palace in Kyiv, the traditional residence of the president of Ukraine.
Dignitaries from all over the world will participate in the ceremonies.

 

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A bakery in Novhorodske, a town in eastern Ukraine founded by German settlers who named it New York. Today it is located on the contact line. Everything is baked fresh every day.

 

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Wearing her vyshyvanka, the daughter of Sgt. Victor Gurnyak Yustynka visits his grave.

 

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Actress Milla Jovovich (Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich) was born in Kyiv.

 

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Today is Memorial Day for Victims of Political Repressions in Ukraine. National Historical Memorial Complex at Bykivnia Graves, one of many unmarked grave sites where the NKVD disposed of
executed “enemies of the state”. Number of dead buried in Bykivnia: between 100,000-200,000.

 

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One of the many sidewalk cafe's along Deribasovskaya Street in downtown Odesa.

 

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The new president of Ukraine Volodmyr Zelensky and the new First Lady of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya.

 

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Chestnut trees blooming in Kyiv.

 

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Andriy Fedorov was KIA near Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast on May 19. Born in 1980 in Solone, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Served in the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade.

 

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UK Ambassador to Ukraine Judith Gough (right) with Olha Chubrykova, head of Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Protocol Department that flawlessly planned the inauguration of Volodmyr Zelensky.

 

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Former president Petro Poroshenko visits with legendary tank driver Eugene Mezhlevin and his family on Eugene's 37th birthday.

 

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The Defense Minister of Canada, Harjit Sajjan (turban), visits with Canadian troops in Ukraine. The female is Ukrainian ... a language interpreter.

 

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Trained by NATO instructors, the Ukraine military has reclaimed 24 square kilometers (about 9.3 square miles) of territory in the country’s embattled Donbas region
underscoring the slow and steady progress of a so-called "creeping offensive" that dates back to late 2016.