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Actress who played the ‘girl in the red coat’ in ‘Schindler’s List’ now coordinates a group of volunteers who are helping refugees as they arrive at the Polish border. (Source:
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The Ukrainian media published the last video of a mother and daughter taking a walk an hour and a half prior to the missile attack on Vinnytsia. The girl was killed, her mother's leg was ripped off.
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A nurse from Lysychansk (Ukraine) who lost both legs due to a mine explosion got married in Lviv. On the video Oksana and Victor dance in the hospital room:. (Source: glavred info)
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At the Russian embassy in Lisbon. Art photographer: Alexey Todosko
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Krasnodar. A girl with her hands tied lay down under the Z-sign "for the Russian world" in memory of those who died in Bucha. Now she is detained (a passer-by called the police). Source: OVD-Info
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Russian Foreign Minister traveled to Japan in the company of his mistress Polyakova and the oligarch Deripaska, who traveled with his escort Lobanova. Previous investigations into Lavrov's corrupt ties to Polyakova and Deripaska confirm this:.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy began a meeting with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, who arrived in Ukraine.
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Mass protests against mobilization in Dagestan: the police opened fire in the air. Video: Ruslan Akhalchi
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“We'll never wash the blood off our hands.”. An anti-war rally took place in front of the Foreign Ministry in Moscow. Photo: SOTA
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CNN: Russian soldiers shot two unarmed civilians as they walked away after an encounter in the outskirts of Kyiv. One was the owner of the vehicle dealership that was looted. The other was, a 68-year-old grandfather who worked as a guard there:
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⚡How the FSB tried to buy an Italian political party. One of the Russians involved in a 2018 scheme to send $65 million to Matteo Salvini’s Lega party has been unmasked as an FSB officer, @InsiderEng can report.
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Lviv, Ukraine. The video shows Angelina Jolie talking to refugees at the train station. (The actress's trip to Ukraine has not been officially announced)
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Russia. The Yakutian town of Neryungri bids farewell to mobilized locals:
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Alexei Navalny's family at the Oscars. Navalny, a documentary following The Insider and Bellingcat's investigation of the opposition politician's poisoning attempt, has been nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2023 Academy Awards.
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Vogue places Olena Zelenska on the cover and publishes photos of the presidential couple:
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«Hug me if you are against the war!» – anti-war action in Russia. – What should I do if I don’t support the war?.– Hug me!.– *hugs* I saw the war. Here it is. *shows his injured hand*
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kangaroos are evacuated from an eco-park in Kharkiv, which is being shelled by the Russian military
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Russia, Makhachkala. Men are being taken to war as their wives and mothers wail. Video by Ostorozhno Novosti
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In Tuva (Russia), several dozen women took to the streets against mobilization. Arrests began almost immediately. Video by Baza:
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Putin's urine and stool are collected by FSO officers on all his foreign trips and brought to Moscow in a special suitcase, Paris Match reports. According to the journalists, that's how the Kremlin is trying to conceal information about Putin’s ailments
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Exclusive: Vladimir Sergienko, a German parliamentary aide to far-right AfD deputy Eugen Schmidt, is an agent of Russian intelligence. His handler is Col. Ilya Vechtomov of the FSB Fifth Service — and Vechtomov raps!.
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The Kyiv Metro. Ukrainians' pets are forced to suffer along with their owners.
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❗Unraveling Havana Syndrome: New evidence links the GRU's assassination Unit 29155 to mysterious attacks on Americans, at home and abroad. A joint investigation by The Insider, @60Minutes, and @derspiegel.
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12-year-old Danik Rak from Chernihiv holds a cat in his arms in the middle of his destroyed house. As a result of the shelling, the boy's mother Lyudmila Koval was wounded. Her leg was amputated. Photo: Evgeniy Maloletka
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Irkutsk, Russia. This is what a banner with a photo of Vladimir Putin looks like. source: irk_insider
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Ukrainian volunteers rescued a cat from the seventh floor of a destroyed house in Borodyanka:
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97-year-old World War II veteran Ivan Lizun near his destroyed home in the Kharkiv region. Photo: Reuters
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Warsaw. Thousands of people took part in a rally in support of Ukraine: people lay down on the ground to honor the memory of the victims of the war.
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In Poland, the Russian ambassador was doused with red paint during the laying of flowers at the cemetery of Soviet soldiers:
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"Ukrainian people, I'm with you." Even the boxing legend Mike Tyson decided to support Ukraine. The video was published on the Boxing Federation of Ukraine's social media page.
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"Even under Hitler, the Germans tried to preserve this collection." Russian Army destroyed Ukraine's only plant gene bank
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SBU video shows Russian soldiers rob a supermarket in Sumy region
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“Navalny is in mortal danger, but he continues to stand by what he believes in” – Alexei Navalny’s daughter in a column for TIME magazine.
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Oksana Baulina, a journalist for The Insider, died under fire in Kyiv after a rocket strike on a shopping center in Podol
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❗“He began to complain of sharp pain in the stomach”: Official documents obtained by The Insider confirm Navalny was poisoned in prison. Initial versions of documents from Navalny's prison mention symptoms doctors unanimously attribute to poisoning.
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Ukraine. Irpin. A man calms down a dog frozen in fear after shelling. 📸: Marcus Yam
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Putin spokesman's son refused to be mobilized and to report to the military enlistment office. "You must understand how wrong it’s for me to be there. I’ll deal with it on another level,"he said, thinking he was speaking with a military enlistment officer.
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Head of Ust-Ilimsk (Russia) military enlistment office shot at work — VIDEO.
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Bild: On March 12, the Russian military killed a Bucha resident Ilya Navalny —the man's neighbors suggest that he could have been killed because of his last name. Ilya Navalny was from the village of Zalesye in the Chernobyl region, where Alexei Navalny's father was born.
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"Blow your brainZ out". A new monument in downtown Kyiv. The caption says: "History has two ways out for war criminals: a tribunal or. Putler, do you take the hint?"
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Russian Embassy in Tallinn, Estonia. Rally against the rape of Ukrainian women and children by Russian invaders. (Photo: Priit Mürk/ERR)
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Nadezhda Sayfutdinova was detained in Yekaterinburg when she stood with an anti-war banner ("You can't be silent!"). She sewed up her mouth — in protest against the war in Ukraine
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Vladimir Zelensky visited Bucha. When Bucha was released, journalists showed terrible picture: the streets were littered with the bodies of dead civilians, some had their hands tied behind their backs, some died from shots in the back of the head
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Stephen King reacted to the strike on the shopping mall in Kremenchuk:
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Tbilisi, Georgia. Performance with the burning of an effigy in honor of freedom and peace. Organized by Russian and Ukrainian emigrants.
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Azov regiment publishes photos of wounded Ukrainian soldiers trapped at Azovstal, asks UN and Red Cross for evacuation
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Russia's Channel One aired a report claiming Putin's father was killed in World War II, 10 years before Putin's birth
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Ukrainians showed what happened to their houses after the visit of Russian soldiers. Yunna Zinkovskaya: "Liberators" freed me from property, from the country, from serene days in quiet Vorzel, from friends, from my entire peaceful life, which they painted with shit on the wall
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Kyiv. Before and after. The consequences of a Russian missile attack on the mall “Retroville”. According to local authorities, 8 people were killed
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“Putin, stop the war!” . Russian people in the center of Krakow right now.
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Washing machines, monitors and other things were brought to the Consulate of the Russian Federation in Lviv — everything that the “liberators” steal from Ukrainians
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Miller's $240 million palace and Gazprom's offshores: joint investigation by Navalny team and Proekt
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«I love the Russian people. That’s why I have to tell you the truth» — Arnold Schwarzenegger published a video message to the Russians. He said that there is no "denazification", but only a senseless war launched to satisfy the Kremlin's ambitions.
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109 empty baby carriages — on a square in Lvov. The number of children who have died in Ukraine since the start of Russia's invasion.
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A naked girl covered in fake blood with the message saying "Stop raping us" written on her body next to the blue and yelow colors of the Ukrainian flag, ran onto the red carpet in Cannes. She protested against violence towards women in Ukraine during hostilities.
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Graduates dancing a farewell waltz in front of the ruins of their school in Kharkiv:
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«This is my son Dimka, a romantic, philosopher, photographer and a serviceman of the "Azov" regiment. Russian TV attempts to portray him as a neo-nazi. They want to demoralize him as a person and patriot, who loves his family, friends and Ukraine» — Irina Yurchenko
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A man from Krasnodar was detained for spitting at a poster with Z. He was driving down the street, noticed a Z sign, got out of the car, spat at the letter and drove away. It was filmed by a video recorder. The police found him. Now he is going to be fined. Source: Baza
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Two FSB and Wagner PMC officers ask for asylum in France and testify, reports Gulagu.nеt
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‼️ The Czech illegals: Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe. A new investigation by The Insider has identified two Czech nationals working as deep-cover GRU Unit 29155 agents in Europe.
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Navalny: «If, in order to stop the war, we have to fill the jails and the police cars with ourselves, we will fill the jails and the police cars with ourselves».
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Ukrainian flag raised at Vladimir Putin Peak. Vladimir Putin Peak is a mountain peak in Chüy Region, Kyrgyzstan. The peak was named after the Russian president in 2011.
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❗“All I wanted was to see a doctor”: Ex-CIA officer tells all about his battle with Havana Syndrome — and his former agency. @Mpolymer speaks to The Insider.
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"What's that? Ukraine? Take it off!". In an electric train near Moscow, a man made a kid take off his backpack because it was in the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
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Tamara Nazarova from Irpin was evacuated to Kyiv with dogs. “24 dogs, 12 are mine and 12 are not mine” she told reporters. - The house was bombed. The children left a long time ago, my husband and I were sitting there together because of the dogs.”
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145 pairs of children's shoes were placed near the Georgian Parliament in Tbilisi. In memory of the children who died as a result of the war in Ukraine.
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Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine published a video: . "10 year old Valeria, world checkers champion. She raised money for the army in the street by playing checkers. Those who lost, had to pay for the game (which was everyone)."
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‼️ Afgantsy Redux: How Russian military intelligence used the Taliban to bleed U.S. forces at the end of America’s longest war. The GRU funded Afghan attacks on U.S. troops via a gemstone trading firm. The Insider was able to ID the network's key players.
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Anti-mobilization rallies are taking place all over Russia. Today Putin announced that at least 300,000 Russians must be called up to fight in Ukraine. The police have already detained more than 100 people.
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New TIME cover dedicated to Ukrainian children who suffered during the war. This is five-year-old Valeria from Krivoy Rog. Such a performance took place in Lviv on March 14 - about 100 people stretched portrait of her.
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Ukraine's national anthem was performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera:
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⚡ Exclusive: Tatjana Zdanoka, a Latvian member of European Parliament, has been an agent of Russian intelligence for at least twenty years, The Insider can reveal, based on emails between Zdanoka and her FSB handlers.
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Russian mobilized soldiers in Belgorod region riot over inhumane conditions and written-off weapons
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Desovietization. Moscow is losing Kazakhstan's support due to the war in Ukraine
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Mykhailo Dianov, an Azovstal defender, before and after Russian captivity.(source @KatProkopenkoUa)
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❗Dangerous liaisons: New details of Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka’s espionage for Russia. The Insider and @rebaltica examined 19,000 of Ždanoka's emails, revealing her extensive correspondence with FSB agents and work for the Kremlin — while being an MEP.
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Explosions in central Kyiv. In the video: a girl was struck by a blast wave as she was filming a video of what was happening
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Participants of the Victory Parade in Yekaterinburg have Z patches on their sleeves. Video: Sasha Zubkovsky / It's my city
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Russia’s main propaganda news show. A woman with an anti-war poster broke into the studio during a live broadcast
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Billie Eilish kissed the flag of Ukraine at a concert in Bonn, Germany.
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Bono and The Edge from U2 perform in a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine
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Putin confidant Gergiev uses charitable fund as personal wallet, investigators say
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⚡️Russian deputy prime minister’s family owns 5 villas in Europe and other assets worth $830 million, Team Navalny reports
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Ben Stiller has arrived in Poland to meet refugees who have been forced to flee Ukraine. 📸 Andrew McConnell / UNHCR
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⚡ Alexei Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya has vowed to continue her husband's cause. "We know what exactly led Putin to kill Alexei three days ago. We'll tell you about it soon," Navalnaya said in a YouTube video released earlier today.
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Borodianka. Office of the Ukrainian company "Enjoy the wood" before and after the war. The company is known all over the world, it produces wall wooden maps.
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Hillary Clinton: “Alexei Navalny is a beacon of hope for democracy in Russia and around the world. Though we can’t share his sentence we can share his struggle for justice. We need to stand together - against Putin to end his war of aggression in Ukraine.”.
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"Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything occupied by Russia must be expelled", said Mikhail Podolyak, advisor to the office of the President of Ukraine, on the Crimean Bridge explosion.
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The mother of 4-year-old Liza who was killed in Vinnytsia had fled from Kyiv to save her. She ran a blog about her daughter and the war
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An elderly woman evacuated from Mariupol along with her rooster. Now they are in Poland. She explained to the volunteers:. “Well, how can I leave my friend Tosha in the war? We were together under the bombing, and survived the famine”. Source: @qropty
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The Mariupol City Council published photos of the house that survived two world wars and a civil war — but was destroyed by Russian troops:
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The court fined a woman from St. Petersburg for an action against Russian propaganda. She tied herself to a fence in front of a TV. Now she has to pay а 35 thousand rubles fine
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Navalny’s team lists 6,000 “corrupt officials and warmongers”
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