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sanctions, 49–52 issues affecting morale, 20
Servant of the People (television program), 16 praised by Zelenskyy, 28–29
Sevastopol, 14 strength of, 8, 29, 53
Shemetovets, Yuliana, 33 Territorial Defense Forces (TDF), 6, 31–34,
social media, Zelenskyy’s use of, 21–22, 22 32
Soviet Union, 11 See also battles
collapse of, 6 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
establishment of NATO and, 11–12 See Russia; Soviet Union
Putin on collapse of, 14 United Kingdom, 50–51, 54–55
Ukraine as member of, 6–7 United Nations, 39, 47, 48, 49, 52
See also Russia United Nations Human Rights Council, 49
Spencer, John, 23 United States, 53–54
Stalin, Joseph, 14 See also Biden, Joe
Statista, 55 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
Stoltenberg, Jens, 53 Aerorozvidka and, 36–37
Sweden, 53, 54 attack on Russian tanks, 7
Switchblade UAVs, 54 Bayraktar TB , 26
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civilian pilots, 31
Tasheva, Tamila, 44 US aid to Ukraine, 54
Task Force KleptoCapture (US Justice Department), USA Today, 27
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Tatars, 14 Vikings, 10
Territorial Defense Forces (TDF), 6, 31–34, 32 Vyazovchenko, Taras, 42
thermobaric missiles, 26
Time (magazine), 16 war crimes, committed by Russian military
Turkey, 12 in Bucha, 42, 42–44
in Kherson region, 44
Ukraine in Mariupol, 44–47, 45
Donbas region warfare
hostilities in (beginning in 2014), 14–15, 16–17 documenting in photos, 46
Putin’s recognition of independence of rules of, 44, 45–46
separatist-held provinces of Donetsk and sanctions as economic, 49–52
Luhansk, 18 Warsaw Treaty Organization (Warsaw Pact), 12
forced union with Russia in Soviet Union, 6 weapons
history of, 10 Molotov cocktails, 32–34
independence of, 6–7, 15 nuclear, 54
interest in joining NATO, 7 pledged and/or sent to Ukraine, 53–56, 55
Kharkiv thermobaric missiles, 26
basic facts about, 19 See also drones
Russian attacks on, 22, 22–23, 32 Wigell, Mikael, 50
TDF units and, 32 Wilson, Kyle, 18
Kyiv World War III, 12, 54
Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti),
17 Yanukovych, Viktor, 14, 17
as major Russian target, 23, 25, 36–37 Yeltsin, Boris, 13, 13
Russian’s failure to capture, 20
TDF units and, 32 Zalishchuk, Svitlana, 17
Zelenskyy remaining in, 21–22, 22 Zelenskyy, Volodymyr
languages spoken in, 12 basic facts about, 15–16, 27
length of border with Russia, 7 elected president, 16, 16
life in, after invasion, 40 fighting in Donbas and, 16–17
Mariupol, 23–24, 44–47, 45 in Kharkiv, 22, 23
meaning of name, 10 military and
Odesa, 19 on casualties, 31
population of, 8 full mobilization of, by, 28
railroad lines to Belarus, 33 praise for, 28–29
Russians living in, after collapse of Soviet Union, 12 response to invasion by, 8
Ukrainian military on Russian war crimes in Bucha, 43
casualties, 30–31 on Russian war crimes in Kramatorsk,
early victories by, 9 47
full mobilization of, 28, 38, 39 on Ukrainians’ determination to win, 56
hostilities in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, 14–15, use of social media, 21–22, 22
16–17 Zhuravlyov, Aleksey, 54

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