#Russian occupation
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-72b63a4e0c8c475ad81fe3eed3f63729.jpeg "Photo of Cyril Barabaltchouk")
-03b1d110d0b792d09cf87a3631445c01.jpg "Civilians are evacuated from settlements on the Ukrainian-controlled right bank of the Kherson region during the temporary ceasefire for the Oleshky humanitarian mission. (Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine)")
-c439b7bd9030ecf9d5a4287dc361ba31.jpg "Photo of Katherina Popilnichenko")
-69fc22dc9ff2fbd165780cffb05f9f8a.jpg "Marc Beckman, a private adviser to US First Lady Melania Trump and founder of advertising agency DMA United. (Source: IMDb)")
-63c859efab550813c9d508440e946c5d.jpg "Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov speaks on a mobile phone during a Russian-Kazakh forum, on July 25, 2026, in Omsk, Russia. (Source: Getty Images)")
![A man holds his Russian passport. Illustrative image. (Source: Getty Images)]( "How Russian Forces Use \"Illegal-2026\" Raids to Force Passports in Temporarily Occupied Ukraine")
![Volodymyr Ananiev, a 77-year-old Crimean political prisoner sentenced by a Russian court to 18 years in prison. (Source: Crimean Tatar Resource Center)]( "Volodymyr Ananiev, a 77-year-old Crimean political prisoner sentenced by a Russian court to 18 years in prison. (Source: Crimean Tatar Resource Center)")
![“The Brink of Death”: How an Elderly Couple Escaped Russian-Made Starvation in the Middle of Europe]( "“The Brink of Death”: How an Elderly Couple Escaped Russian-Made Starvation in the Middle of Europe")
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![Jessica_daly]( "Photo of Jess Daly")
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- War in Ukraine
By the time they escaped Russian-occupied Oleshky, the elderly couple had been eating grass to survive. The grandmother could walk only 20 or 30 steps before collapsing. Ahead of them were 25 kilometers of mined roads and Russian drones.![Demonstrators gather in Brussels, on September 28, 2026, to support residents of Oleshky and other Ukrainian territories under Russian occupation. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Demonstrators gather in Brussels, on September 28, 2026, to support residents of Oleshky and other Ukrainian territories under Russian occupation. (Source: Getty Images)")
![Five-Meter-Tall Russians Go to War: AI Is Faking Putin’s Battlefield Victories in Ukraine]( "Five-Meter-Tall Russians Go to War: AI Is Faking Putin’s Battlefield Victories in Ukraine")
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![Photo of Yurii Marchenko]( "Photo of Yurii Marchenko")
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- War in Ukraine
Russia is increasingly fabricating not only the scale of its battlefield successes, but also the evidence supposedly proving them. Russian flags appear where there are no Russian troops. Where there are no soldiers, artificial intelligence adds them in. And sometimes the results are so convincing that Russian soldiers grow to five meters tall and simply dissolve on camera.![Demonstrators gather in Brussels, on September 28, 2026, to support residents of Oleshky and other Ukrainian territories under Russian occupation. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Demonstrators gather in Brussels, on September 28, 2026, to support residents of Oleshky and other Ukrainian territories under Russian occupation. (Source: Getty Images)")
-d32043ebe6285f4a9b9f0c430b3ec549.jpg "Volodymyr Ananiev, a 77-year-old Crimean political prisoner sentenced by a Russian court to 18 years in prison. (Source: Crimean Tatar Resource Center)")
-459bb73269263f483321d83a79e58470.png "“The Brink of Death”: How an Elderly Couple Escaped Russian-Made Starvation in the Middle of Europe")
-46f6afa2f66d31ff3df8ea1a8f5524ec.jpg "Photo of Jess Daly")
