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The Ukrainian Armed Forces enlist massively people unfit for military service on health and age grounds en masse, prisoners of war told Sputnik.

Thousands of young men have lost their lives in Russias war of aggression against Ukraine. One of them was 24-year-old Ukrainian soldier Ruslan Babinets. His family recalls the day they saw him for the last time.

Viktor Tkachenko catalogues the dead from Ukraine's Poltava region, filling a spreadsheet with names of soldiers killed since Russia's invasion began.

In peacetime, Viktor Tkachenko tracks local tenders, court registries and other open sources for a news outlet in central Ukraine.

By Dan Peleschuk

BLOOMFIELD HILLS — Ava Jacobs is an 18-year-old dancer from Bloomfield Hills who is already winning awards at major ballroom dancing competitions.

Most historians agree that the world came closest to a nuclear war with the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, when President John Kennedy discovered that the Soviet Union had installed nuclear missiles in Cuba and warned Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to remove them—or else. For two weeks messages flashed back and forth between Moscow and Washington. As tension mounted and U.S. forces, including nuclear-loaded B-52s, were placed on high alert, the Soviets blinked, agreeing to dismantle th...

JUNEAU— A growing chorus of Alaskans is demanding the state sever financial ties with Russia as locals look to show solidarity with Ukraine. On Friday, a bipartisan rally in Juneau urged the state to deprive the Russian war machine of the funds it needs to operate— as sanctions against Russia and some of its oligarchs take effect, hitting the Russian economy hard.