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Olena Pekh, researcher at Horlivka Art Museum, cries while she speaks to her daughter via videosignal in Kyiv airport, Ukraine, Saturday, June 29, 2024. Ten Ukrainians who had been held prisoner for years were released from Russian captivity Friday with the mediation of the Vatican, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Ukrainians held prisoner for years released from Russian captivity

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Once an investigative journalist, then an activist, and later a lawmaker, Yehor Soboliev speaks during an interview with Associated Press in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 3, 2024. In all of these roles, he sought to expose corruption in business and government as a way to defend Ukraine's budding democracy. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Ukraine spent years trying to build a Western-style democracy. Then Russia invaded the country

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi, front, attends an event for marking Statehood Day in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv, on July 28, 2023. Rifts within Ukraine’s top leadership have burst into the open following swirling rumors that Ukraine’s top military chief will be dismissed amid reported tensions with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The rumors that Zaluzhnyi was being sacked were denied by Zelenskyy’s office and the Defense Ministry this week and the immensely popular top commander still retains his post. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP, File)

Zelenskyy, in risky move, ousts popular military commander Zaluzhnyi

By Guillaume Ptak

A Ukrainian serviceman prepares to receive a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine marketed under the name CoviShield at a military base near the front-line town of Krasnohorivka, eastern Ukraine, Friday, March 5, 2021. The country designated 14,000 doses of its first vaccine shipment for the military, especially those fighting Russia-backed separatists in the east. But only 1,030 troops have been vaccinated thus far. In the front-line town of Krasnohorivka, soldiers widely refuse to vaccinate. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Wide resistance to vaccines plagues Ukraine’s COVID-19 fight

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press