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Russian President Vladimir Putin denies that Ukraine has its own identity or culture apart from Russia. Many Ukrainian artists have been killed while fighting to stop his invasion.
On 23 December, Bohdan Kolesnyk, a film and theatre actor, was killed in combat. Source: Ukrainian State Film Agency, referring to Alla Samoilenko, the casting director While performing a combat mission, the soldier was fatally wounded.
Illia Samoilenko, a soldier in the controversial Azov Regiment, survived a siege and months as a POW in Moscow; says he still has much work to do, sympathizes with Israel's stance
The families of Ukrainian soldiers imprisoned by Russian forces have embarked on a desperate search for information after a deadly explosion at the Olenivka prison.
Alla Samoilenk has waited for months for news of her son, fearing the worst, after he and others with Ukraine's Azov Regiment left their shelter in the Mariupol steel plant and surrendered to Russian forces.