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Like any other Ukrainian, the last 12 months have presented Sevgil Musaieva, Ukrainska Pravda’s editor-in-chief, with innumerable challenges: from her team’s safety and security to the outlet’s financial support to how to operate amid power outages caused by Russian shelling. © Courtesy of S. Musaieva.

Ukraine: One Year On

Musaieva: “Without Courage, Journalism Dies”

The chief editor of Ukrainska Pravda, Ukraine’s oldest online newspaper, on the cost of propaganda and the value of investigating corruption.

Serhiy Prytula is a former TV presenter, actor and politician who has been fundraising since 2014 in the wake of the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea. © Lesya Kharchenko

Ukraine: One Year On

Prytula: “It Depends On You”

How an entertainment celebrity raised tens of millions to buy drones for Ukraine.

Olena Khromova and her husband Oleh opened the café Protagoniste in 2019 and planned to create a space to bring Kharkiv’s creative youth together. © Liudmyla Budina

Ukraine: One Year On

Khromova: Serving Coffee Under Fire

Kharkiv café-cum-bar Protagoniste kept its doors open throughout the war, offering an island of normality amid shelling and air raids.

Iryna Kondratova is head of the Kharkiv Regional Perinatal Centre. © Ihor Tambiiev

Ukraine: One Year On

Kondratova: Saving Kharkhiv’s Babies

The doctor never left her clinic, providing critical support to mothers and newborns.

Oleksandr Kamyshin is head of Ukraine’s rail state company. © Ukrzaliznytsia’s press office

Ukraine: One Year On

Kamyshin: Leading Ukraine’s Iron Diplomacy

How a manager tasked with reforming a train network became a wartime director of operations.

In many liberated Ukrainian villages police have discovered buildings that appear to have been used by Russian soldiers as prisons and suspected torture chambers. © Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

Courtside

Torture in the Chernihiv Region

Case brought over brutal detention and abuse of local man randomly shot at and imprisoned.

Ukraine Justice Briefing

Tuesday, 21 February ‘23

This week’s overview of key events and links to essential reading.

Items are seen inside a cell at a preliminary detention centre which is believed to have been used by Russian forces to jail and torture civilians on November 16, 2022 in Kherson, Ukraine. © Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Ukraine War Diary by A. Borden

Justice Under Fire in Kherson

Despite huge obstacles, the regional war crimes unit is steadily assembling its cases for torture and shelling.

An aerial view of artillery craters scarring the landscape next to a destroyed house on October 24, 2022 in Sulyhivka, Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine. © Carl Court/Getty Images

Interview

Environmental Damage as a War Crime

Despite widespread destruction, prosecuting Russia will come with many challenges.

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A woman reacts over the body of her daughter, next to a clinic that was damaged during a Russian missile attack, on June 1, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine. At least three were killed, including a child, and others were injured by falling debris from intercepted missiles. © Roman Pilipey/Getty Images

Interview

Ukraine Justice: “Reporting the Story is Just the Start”

Journalists need training and support to properly cover war crimes trials.

Students attend a lesson on housekeeping at a training facility for domestic workers on November 22, 2022 in Kampala, Uganda. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states are a frequent destination for Ugandan domestic workers, with official estimates suggesting that around one hundred and sixty-five thousand Ugandans are in temporary employment contracts in the region. © Luke Dray/Getty Images

International Migrants Day

Ugandan Women Pay the Price of Exploitation

Activists warn that vulnerable domestic workers risk abuse, often returning with serious health conditions.

Ukraine War Diary by A. Borden

Harsh Victory at Position X

Commitment, sacrifice and luck secured a vital early win in the south-eastern campaign, but can Ukrainian forces press on?

Sevim Kaya has been a bus driver for 16 years.

Behind the Wheel in a Macho City

Some women face Adana's male-dominated traffic chaos for a living.

Karine (not her real name) was 15 when she realised that the male body she was born into was not hers. She moved from the rural community she grew up in to the capital Yerevan to be free to be herself. Unlinke many people in her community she was able to find a stable job as a hairdresser and manicurist. © Anahit Zakaryan

Life in the Shadows for Armenia’s Transgender Community

Recent murder highlights widespread discrimination and violence against LGBTI people.

An AFPTV cameraman films while smoke plumes billow during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on October 12, 2023 as raging battles between Israel and the Hamas movement continue for the sixth consecutive day. Thousands of people, both Israeli and Palestinians have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip, entered southern Israel in a surprise attack leading Israel to declare war on Hamas in Gaza on October 8. © Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images

The Israel-Hamas Conflict

Interview: The War on Disinformation

Open source intelligence (OSINT) can provide facts – but impatient, angry audiences often prefer opinions.

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Musaieva: “Without Courage, Journalism Dies”

Prytula: “It Depends On You”

Khromova: Serving Coffee Under Fire

Kondratova: Saving Kharkhiv’s Babies

Kamyshin: Leading Ukraine’s Iron Diplomacy

Torture in the Chernihiv Region

Tuesday, 21 February ‘23

Justice Under Fire in Kherson

Environmental Damage as a War Crime

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Ukraine Justice: “Reporting the Story is Just the Start”

Ugandan Women Pay the Price of Exploitation

Harsh Victory at Position X

Behind the Wheel in a Macho City

Life in the Shadows for Armenia’s Transgender Community

Interview: The War on Disinformation

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