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Kateryna Lykhoglyad, investigative journalist at Slidstvo.info. Born in Tiraspol, capital of the Russian occupied territory of Transnistria.
B.A. from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Author of a prize-winning documentary about murdered Kherson activist
Kateryna Handziuk who died from acid burns. Ms. Lykhoglyad is one of Ukraine's 2019 30 Under 30 Award winners.

 

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Concrete border markers for Ukraine and Romania. Those are the Marmarosa Mountains in the background, located mostly in Romania.

 

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Ukraine's 2019 30 Under 30 Award winners includes teachers, scientists, human rights activists, politicians, startup founders, stars of show business and high-achievers from other fields.

 

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The man seated far to the right of Putin in Paris and in focus is Vladislav Surkov. He is Putin's ideological guru and has control of the Ukraine portfolios.
Everything in occupied Ukraine happens under his direction. Surkov has very bloody hands.

 

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22y.o. Sergey Sirota of the 14th OMB was KIA on December 9 while performing combat missions in the village of Golden in Donetsk oblast.

 

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Having spent over 5 years in a Russian prison on fake charges, recently released prisoner Oleg Sentsov is registered for Ukrainian military service as an Army Reservist.

 

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A 65 MW solar power plant project in Kherson oblast.

 

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Army conscripts at the Yavoriv Combat Training Center in Lviv oblast.

 

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The main cast members of the "Servant of the People" political satire comedy television show in which current Ukraine president Volodmyr Zelenskyy portrayed the character Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodkoa,
a former history teacher who wins election to the Ukraine presidency. Moscow has ordered that SOTP syndication episode's no longer be aired in Russia.

 

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Left - Andriy Voitovych was KIA by landmine near Zolote, Luhansk Oblast on December 9. Born in 1990 in the village of Kvitne,
Volyn Oblast, resided in Lutsk. Served as a junior sergeant in 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade.

Right - Viktor Prusky was KIA by a landmine near Zolote, Luhansk Oblast on December 9. Born in 1970 in Rivne.
Served as a junior sergeant in the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade.

 

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Russia's Constitution Day should be dedicated to Olga Misik. During June and July the 17-year-old student taught Russian riot police about Constitutional rights as
they wait for the order to attack Moscow city election protesters with their police batons.

 

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Lieutenant General Alexander Sirsky, Commander of the Army of the Armed Forces says the Ukrainian military will also begin training on offensive operations.
Up to now national defense had been exclusively stressed.

 

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In late 19th–early 20th century, Polish nobleman Zdzislaw Kolonn-Chesnovsky built a luxurious estate in Bozhykivtsi, Khmelnytsky Oblast.
In 1923, the estate was transformed into a public school which is what it still is today, 96 years later.

 

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Ukrainian/UN military personnel in the Congo. Protecting an orphanage in Goma, where children often survive all alone amid medieval standards of life.

 

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Good evening from Kyiv.

 

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From the left, front. Minister of Education and Science Anna Novosad, Director of the Ivankiv Secondary School Viktoria Maksymchuk, First Lady of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya.
The First Lady and Minister were visiting schools in the Cherkasy region checking on nutrition in the school cafeteria's and nutrition at home.

 

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Switzerland has extended for another year the asset freeze on the fourth president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and his entourage to the tune of
70 million Swiss francs (1.6 billion UAH). Living in Russia, Yanukovych was tried and convicted in absentia of treason in January 2019 and sentenced to 13 years.

 

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Military doctor Yulia Kuzmenko in the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv. She has been charged with placing a bomb under the car of journalist Pavel Sheremet in 2016. This
is the courtroom of the notoriously corrupt Judge Pavlo Vovk. Five military people have been charged with the assassination. I'm beginning to believe this case is a frame-up
job on the part of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.

 

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Yesterday - Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Dmitry Razumkov, President Volodmyr Zelenskyy, and Prime Minister Alexei Honcharuk prepare to lay flowers on the memorial
to the Chornobyl Soldiers and the memorial mound for the Heroes of Chornobyl.

 

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Andriy Dziuba was KIA in Novotroyitske, Donetsk Oblast on December 11.
Born in Stara Syniava, Khmelnytsky Oblast in 1993. Served in the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade.

 

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Investigative journalist Valeriya Yegoshyna of the award-winning RFE/RL “Schemes” («СХЕМИ») investigative team. Ms Yegoshyna is one of the 2019 Top 30 Under 30 award winners.
“Schemes” journalists and staff have been subject to legal actions and physical attacks in retaliation for their reporting. Natalie Sedletska, Chief Editor and television presenter of
“Schemes” was named among Ukraine’s Top 30 Under 30 in 2016.

 

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These are confiscated nuggets of amber which is currently illegally mined in Ukraine. The state is looking to regulate this industry which despoils the local environment and ecology.

 

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Quite frankly, I'm a bit stumped why the US sent Javelin's to Ukraine. The country makes the mobile Stugna-P and the above Korsar (Corsair) anti-tank missile
systems with tens of thousands of available munitions. Laser guided, they are both quite lethal and compare favorably with the US Javelin.

 

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An aerial picture of the Pioneering Spirit, a state-of-the-art floating factory and the largest heavy lift and pipe-lay vessel in the world. 2,100 kilometers of double strand for Russia's NordStream-2 pipeline to
Europe have already been laid in the Baltic Sea. The company says it will stop if threatened US sanctions come into force. Only about another 300 kilometers of pipeline remain to be laid.

 

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A Ukrainian kitten helping to hold the front line in Donbas.