iryna solomko understood the topic. on january 2 of this year, russia fired upon kharkiv with a north korean kn-23 missile, according to recently released us intelligence data. experts claim that this not only proved cooperation between a permanent member of the russian security council and the sanctioned north korea, but also for the first time allowed specialists to obtain large pieces of debris for analysis. bruce bennett is a senior security expert at the california-based rand research center. he speaks north korean. rockets are very similar russian iskanders. it is almost certain that the russians assisted north korea in the development of this missile. we don't know if this was sanctioned by the russian government or if it was done by rogue russian scientists, but the bottom line is that the russians are helping north korea design and develop new ballistic missiles. benet claims that this cooperation has been going on for more than a decade. russian scientists came to north korea legally or illegally to help with

iryna solomko and pavlo terikhov will tell you more. hello. my name. ira, but in the city where i am now, i am usually called cheka. i am near avdiivka and work as a combat medic for the marines as part of a volunteer hospital battalion. this is the beginning of iryna tsyboh's war diary, which she recorded in june 2022. cultural activist daria kolomiets, the author of the project, says: this is a podcast about ukrainians and how they met russian invasions, their real stories, emotions, feelings and actions. she heard about iryna kolomiets from a friend. i saw iryna tsivokh. and this girl, who was 24 years old at that time, as much as i liked her, interested me, i began to listen to what she said, i realized that she is incredibly wise and deep, i just wrote her a direct message on instagram, i say iryna, as you are looking to share the diary, iryna wrote my diary from the rotation, i don't like what i do, i don't like war, so i don't count if i saved the 110th or the 205th. i know that during this rotation we took out, evacuated from the battlefield, s

mariupol, since then vlad shows it at various festivals and events , his story will be told by iryna solomko. hello everyone from mariupol, battles are going on, and we sit and eat. what 's it called, bagels, bagels, ukrainians are invincible, let's hold on, but it's not what we heard, it's still toys, when the full-scale invasion of nomorenk began, vladyslav pyatin was 16, he was a representative of the pro-ukrainian youth of the city, he knew and spoke ukrainian , played ukrainian. in the theater, was interested in politics and dreamed of journalism, he says, he felt the approach of a great war. i very well remember the evening of february 21, when i was returning from a rehearsal at the theater and met my father at the entrance, and just on the trolley i watched putin announce the independence of the so-called dpr, and then i realized that if it is not a matter of hours, it is a matter of days, and... i suggested to my father, let's buy some food, some stock, he said: no it can be like this. at first, we blogged, vladyslav started keeping a diary, where he recorded in detail all the event

my colleague iryna solomko spoke with evgenia in new york.ragment of their conversation follows. evgenia, here you are from the beginning. of a full-scale invasion, you are engaged in research, probably and recording, documenting war crimes, whether enough has been said about them and is being said in ukraine? i think that for sure, even in 10 years, we will not describe everything that the russians have already done on our territory and all the crimes that they have committed, it is difficult to estimate now, because we do not really know to the end, well, how many of these crimes there were in general carried out, we do not know, for example, we know very little about what is happening now in the occupied territories, it is... only some rumors, some isolated ones, there is very episodic information that reaches us, we still do not understand everything that happened in the villages, because well, really, even in spite of the fact that a huge number of people are working on documentation, but these forces do not seem to me to be enough at th

iryna solomko spoke with the deputy minister. their interview, further. mr.or, from the moment, probably, when ukraine received the first such territories with changes, which are polluted, you can call them polluted, but two years have already passed there, very different numbers have been heard, nevertheless, how many territories are polluted in our country, how much has been achieved to clean them already, according to your estimates, and, because anyway, unfortunately, now kharkiv is gone, but, that is, as if there was a clean territory, now it is polluted again, that is, what is the dynamics of all this? we can talk about approximate numbers, very, very approximate. which were outlined after the kharkiv and kherson counteroffensive operations, then it was estimated that approximately very, very much. approximately, ah, there were potentially contaminated and such that required surveying 174, km, and these are areas where there may be danger, these are areas that need to be surveyed using satellite images using mobile teams, and this figure is currently 14

iryna solomko asked foreign journalists how their working conditions in ukraine differ from covering conflicts in other countries. countries of the world, its story follows. allen chin is an american photographer and journalist, he started covering conflicts at the end of 1999, when the war in the former yugoslavia began. after that, he worked in afghanistan and iraq, israel and palestine. in he came to ukraine for the first time in the spring of 2014. he saw the beginning of a full-scale invasion with his own eyes. comparing all these conflicts, he says: in ukraine, there is a real conventional and very... this is a war of two opposing armies, weapons that are used more and more perfectly than in some other conflicts. we saw many journalists killed or injured in those first months because the frontline was moving and they didn't necessarily know where they were. at the beginning of the full-scale invasion on the territory of ukraine, 68 journalists died. it is physical security, according to... mochyna is one of the excuses of the ukrainian government when it decides to give or not

my colleague iryna solomko met valeria in new york. her story continues. valeria is an orphan, her mother died a few years before the full-scale invasion. before the great war, the girl was engaged in dancing, dreamed of becoming a doctor and loved. my city, the city of my parents, we are right on the dnipro river, as dovzhenko wrote, the fact that we have endless steppes and a river across the road. after the death of her mother, valeria lived with a guardian, she says, almost immediately after the occupation, they wanted to leave the city, but the school, where the collaborators began to manage, refused to issue her documents. then i found out that our director was being taken to the basement, and another director, who did not cooperate at all, was simply taken away. documents, took out safes with documents, thus the russians, according to the girl, gained access to the children's database, after which, in early october 2022, they gathered parents and they informed that the children will be forcibly evacuated tomorrow. on october 8, already at 10 in the