Articles written by Lori Hinnant & Vasilisa Stepanenko


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  • Russia obliterates Ukraine's front-line towns faster with hacked bombs and expanded air base network

    LORI HINNANT and VASILISA STEPANENKO|Jun 21, 2024

    KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — The first shock wave shattered aisles stacked almost to the ceiling with home improvement products. The next Russian bomb streaked down like a comet seconds later, unleashing flames that left the megastore an ashen shell. A third bomb failed to detonate when it landed behind the Epicenter shopping complex in Kharkiv. Investigators hope it will help them trace the supply chain for the latest generation of retrofitted Russian "glide bombs" that are laying waste to eastern Ukraine. The Soviet-era bombs are adapted on the ch...

  • Russia scrubs Mariupol's Ukraine identity, builds on death

    LORI HINNANT and VASILISA STEPANENKO|Dec 23, 2022

    Throughout Mariupol, Russian workers are tearing down bombed-out buildings at a rate of at least one a day, hauling away shattered bodies with the debris. Russian military convoys are rumbling down the broad avenues of what is swiftly becoming a garrison city, and Russian soldiers, builders, administrators and doctors are replacing the tens of thousands of Ukrainians who have died or left. Many of the city's Ukrainian street names are reverting to Soviet ones, with the Avenue of Peace that cuts through Mariupol to be labeled Lenin Avenue. Even...