One woman whose husband was in captivity attended a #POW exchange.
“There was a Ukrainian #soldier who was given a chocolate bar…I watched him unwrap it, hold it to his face, close his eyes and slowly breathe in the smell,” she said quietly. “It still gives me goosebumps."
The monument honors #OleksandrMatsievskiy, who was posthumously awarded a medal after a widely shared video showed him being shot dead by his Russian captors. A sniper with a unit from the region of #Chernihiv, he can be seen saying "#SlavaUkraini," before slumping to the ground. While looking at Oleksandr's award, his mother said he "would have taken all of them with him if he had a grenade."
Last visit in the barn of my grandpa, before it is demolished.
Somehow it is a sad moment because I can still remember very well being there as a child with my grandfather among all the animals.
My grandfather was a great lover of animals. Keeping animals of all kinds was his hobby.
When he came out of Russian captivity in Siberia after the Second World War, he was a sick and broken man.
Perhaps he had incurred unbearable guilt as a #soldier in the German Wehrmacht - I don't know, because he never talked about it - with anyone in the family.
He often said: "Since I have known the people, I love the animals".
In the end, he perished from the physical and psychological consequences of his experiences in the Second World War and in captivity.
The older I get, the more I realise that he gave me something to take with me.
Rest in peace, Opa!
#BBCNews - Dead #soldier suffered relentless sexual #harassment - #Army report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66982160 #JaysleyBeck
After another senior's assault on her:
"The chain of command took the incident seriously, but the evidence suggests that the correct reporting process was not followed. As a result, the discipline advice was based on a version of events from which certain key details appear to have been accidentally omitted."
Last visit in the barn of my grandpa, before it is demolished.
Somehow it is a sad moment because I can still remember very well being there as a child with my grandfather among all the animals.
My grandfather was a great lover of animals. Keeping animals of all kinds was his hobby.
When he came out of Russian captivity in Siberia after the Second World War, he was a sick and broken man.
Perhaps he had incurred unbearable guilt as a #soldier in the German Wehrmacht - I don't know, because he never talked about it - with anyone in the family.
He often said: "Since I have known the people, I love the animals".
In the end, he perished from the physical and psychological consequences of his experiences in the Second World War and in captivity.
The older I get, the more I realise that he gave me something to take with me.
Rest in peace, Opa!
Four Armenian soldiers were killed on Wednesday by Azerbaijani fire in Nagorno-Karabakh, said separatist authorities in the breakaway region, which has been at the centre of a decades-long territorial…
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When will the Russians realize that they are not welcome in #Ukraine ? and that sooner or later the only thing that awaits the invaders is #injury, #capture or #death ...?
[Video] Ukrainian soldier in his underwear fires an RPG in the direction of russians (streamable.com)
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The making of a fake war hero: An American who reinvented himself as a social-media soldier in Ukraine is accused of 'stolen valor' (www.businessinsider.com)
James Vasquez became the face of foreign fighters and heroism in Ukraine. But all was not as it seemed.
Armenian soldiers killed by Azerbaijani forces in Nagorno-Karabakh (amp.france24.com)
Four Armenian soldiers were killed on Wednesday by Azerbaijani fire in Nagorno-Karabakh, said separatist authorities in the breakaway region, which has been at the centre of a decades-long territorial…
[Video] A Ukrainian soldier lost consciousness after a hard fight, and his brother in arms brought him back by pouring water on his face. (streamable.com)
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[Video] Ukrainian soldier eliminates a nearby Russian laying prone in the outskirts of Bahkmut. (streamable.com)
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Exclusive: Details of the storming and successful liberation of Neskuchne - an interview with a soldier (english.nv.ua)
On June 11, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the village of Neskuchne in the Volnovakhsky District of Donetsk Oblast.