Hundreds of protesters marched in Ukraine’s capital city to demand more rights, among them service members that are part of the LGBT community.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 08:34:17 JST Tim Mak -
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 08:34:17 JST Tim Mak Putin wants full control of Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson as a condition of ceasefire negotiations.
“If Kyiv and West refuse, they will take full responsibility for further bloodshed,” Putin said.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 08:34:16 JST Tim Mak Today’s Dog of War is Katana, who, along with Alyong (right), both have heterochromia, a condition where each eye is a different color.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 23:01:29 JST Tim Mak Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
Gambling has been a wartime challenge going back to the American Revolution, when George Washington warned against it.
In #Ukraine, gambling addiction is on the rise as soldiers like Taras relapse due to stress.
Few would be surprised that Taras*, who spent 18 months on the frontlines storming enemy trenches, is in therapy.
After all, he still has shrapnel lodged so close to his carotid artery that doctors have refused to remove it.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 22:48:08 JST Tim Mak The power just came back on in the area of Kyiv that I’m in, after being off for six hours.
In the cafe I’m sitting, you could actually hear the tenor of the conversations become more buoyant after the power was restored
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 22:20:42 JST Tim Mak Good morning to readers, #Kyiv remains in #Ukrainian hands.
A #Russian attack on one of Europe's largest printing houses destroyed 50k books and 40% of Ukr printing capacity.
For Olena Rybka, it represented the heart of Ukrainian culture. Book lovers will find this heartbreaking.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 03:21:54 JST Tim Mak Maks was one of the few journalists who covered the war for eight whole years since 2014.
So on February 24th, 2022 there was no question for him whether to document the full-scale Russian invasion.
On March 13, Maks Levin together with soldier Oleksii Chernyshov, a former photographer, went by car to the village of Huta-Mezhyhirska, near the frontlines.
The pair were not far from Kyiv, as the Russians advanced on the capital.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 03:21:54 JST Tim Mak Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
This week is #Ukraine’s National Journalist’s Day and to honor it, we remember the 81 journalists killed since #Russia invaded
… through a profile of photographer Maks Levin, who was killed near Kyiv in March, 2022.
"Every Ukrainian photographer dreams of taking a photo that will stop the war," was one of Maks Levin's most famous sentences.
Unfortunately, he never did, because Russia killed him.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 03:21:53 JST Tim Mak According to the Institute of Mass Information's Monitoring of Russian Crimes Against Journalists and Media, #Russia has committed almost 600 different crimes against journalists and media in #Ukraine during the two years of full-scale war.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 03:21:53 JST Tim Mak They got out of the car and walked towards the scenes of combat, but then disappeared.
Two and a half weeks later, the police found the body of Maks Levin – the Russians had killed him with two shots.
This week Ukraine celebrates the Day of the Journalist.
Due to the full-scale war, some have left their usual professions and joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces, while others, with pen or camera in hand, are documenting the war crimes of the Russians in #Ukraine.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 03:21:52 JST Tim Mak Maks left behind his girlfriend, Zoriana Stelmakh.
"I lost the love of my life, a part of my soul, my dreamed future,” she recalled about her beloved.
“But Maks left me his people, who were there for me in the most difficult times and who are now by my side and support me.”
Zoriana is a volunteer and photographer, just like Maks.
Their story started in April 2021.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 03:21:52 JST Tim Mak Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 81 media workers have been killed.
10 while carrying out journalistic activities, while 71 journalists died as a result of Russian shelling.
With this story, The Counteroffensive honors the memory of the journalists who lost their lives to make the world aware of the war.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 03:21:51 JST Tim Mak However, as winter approached, the lovers began to realize that there was going to be a big war, so they talked about "what if".
For Maks, the war started long before February 24, 2022.
It began eight years earlier, in 2014.
"Maks was fair and wanted justice, so he also perceived the events on the Maidan not just through a lens, but as a responsible citizen who also wanted change," Zoriana said.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 03:21:50 JST Tim Mak That was an unsuccessful Ukrainian operation in the Donetsk region, near the city of Ilovaisk, in which 1,200-1,300 Ukrainian soldiers were surrounded.
The Ukrainian military tried several times to break through the encirclement.
However, all attempts failed.
The Ukrainian command tried negotiating with the Russian side to get the soldiers out.
They agreed on a route for the withdrawal of the Ukrainian forces through a "green corridor."
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 03:21:50 JST Tim Mak First he was at the Revolution of Dignity, and then he went to work on the war, taking photographs throughout.
His friends say it was important for Maks to show what was really happening, to capture a moment in history.
So, in 2014, he found himself in the Battle for Ilovaysk.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 03:21:49 JST Tim Mak After the full-scale invasion broke out in 2022, Maks became the first correspondent to film the aftermath of the battle for Kharkiv.
Then Maks returned to the Kyiv region to document the fierce battle for the capital city.
Maks often filmed using a drone, thereby seeing things that others could not.
He could see new details about the movement of Russian troops, or the deployment of heavy equipment.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 03:21:49 JST Tim Mak Maks' loved ones remember him fondly, and keep his spirit alive.
They say that Maks always told the truth, did not tolerate injustice, and stood firm in his beliefs, which often led to conflicts even with his close family and friends.
But that is also why he was loved.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 03:21:49 JST Tim Mak But the corridor became a trap for the Ukrainian military: Russian troops opened fire, shooting at the Ukrainian convoys.
368 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the battle, more than 250 were killed while leaving the corridor.
Maks managed to escape from the encirclement in Ilovaisk in a car that he drove himself.
His friends recall that the drive itself took 30-40 minutes, but at the time it seemed like an eternity. Maks’ was the only car to leave that day.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 03:21:48 JST Tim Mak This is exactly what happened in the forests near Huta-Mezhyhirska.
"But the drone was jammed by electronic warfare and fell," Zoriana said.
Maks went out to go and find the drone, which included all the critical videos and photos, accompanied by Oleksii Chernyshov, a soldier and former photographer.
The pair left their car and walked toward the village of Moshchun.
But they were never heard from again.
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Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 03:21:47 JST Tim Mak To read today's issue in full honoring the fallen journalists during Russia's full-scale war, please join us through the link.