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Ukraine’s SBU security service has pressed charges against Russian Lieutenant General Sergey Kobylash, whom it says ordered a strike on a high-rise building in the central Ukrainian city of Uman in April, the SBU’s press service announced on Nov. 28.

Russia has destroyed 193 of Ukraine’s medical facilities and damaged another 1,468 in over 20 months of full-scale war, Ukraine's Health Ministry announced on Nov. 7.

Police have identified the remains of all 59 people killed by Russia's deadliest missile strike of 2023 on a cafe in Hroza village, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko reported on Telegram on Oct. 12.

Ukraine’s SBU security service has identified the two individuals who directed the Russian Iskander missile strike on a cafe in Hroza village, Kharkiv Oblast, killing 55 people, the SBU reported on Telegram on Oct. 11, sharing photos of two local residents.

The brothers accused of directing a Russian missile strike on a public gathering in the village of Hroza, Kharkiv Oblast, killing 55 people, have been described as “animals” and “fascists” by a former neighbos.

Dozens of people were injured, including a nine-month-old infant, in Russia’s massive, repeated shelling of Kherson and its suburbs on the right bank of the Dnipro River early on Oct. 8, Kherson Oblast Military Administration head, Oleksandr Prokudin, reported on Telegram.

Lost lives cannot be rebuilt. The human psyche and culture has, however, developed mechanisms to cope with loss. This is the work of the living to mourn and remember. But the lives of the dead will be never repaired. Reparation is a gift to the living, those who can repair and reconstruct their lives and their environments.

Join USIP, in partnership with the Alliance for Peacebuilding, as we kickstart PeaceCon 2023 by bringing together senior officials, thought leaders, policymakers and practitioners from around the world to explore this year’s theme, “Beyond Fragile Ground: New Peacebuilding Architectures for Today and the Future,” as well as discuss new strategic approaches and peacebuilding frameworks to manage conflict and prevent violence.

During six months of war in Ukraine, Associated Press photographers have captured images that are both succinct and eloquent