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'Humiliated' and 'harassed': Ukrainians recount life under occupation
'Humiliated' and 'harassed': Ukrainians recount life under occupation
by  AFP

Surrounded by kittens unmoved by the far-off sounds of war, 72-year-old Maria Syzhuk recalled the terror she lived through during Russia's six-month occupation of her village in southern Ukraine. Syzhuk was one among a handful of the village's 4,000 residents who stayed throughout Russia's hold on the area after it invaded Ukraine in late February.

Gunmen kill five soldiers, civilian in southeast Nigeria
Gunmen kill five soldiers, civilian in southeast Nigeria
by  AFP

Gunmen killed five soldiers and a civilian in southeast Nigeria, police and local media said Thursday, after the latest bloodshed in a region where separatist tensions often flare. Local media said five soldiers in a vehicle were ambushed and shot dead, while a civilian bystander was killed by stray bullet.

'Better than killing people': Russians flee into Mongolia
'Better than killing people': Russians flee into Mongolia
by  AFP

On a bright morning in Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar, a young Russian fleeing Moscow's first military call-up since World War II had a stark answer for why he had left: "I don't want to kill people." "At first, I thought I knew what was happening," another young Russian said of the Ukraine war.

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