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Apr

2023

‘It was heartbreaking’: Ukraine children back home after alleged deportation

ANNA DABROWSKA MORE than 30 children were reunited with their families in Ukraine this weekend after a long operation to bring them back home from Russia or Russian-occupied Crimea, where they had been taken from areas occupied by Russian forces during the war. Mothers hugged sons and daughters as they crossed the border from Belarus into Ukraine on Friday after a complex rescue mission involving travel across four countries. Dasha Rakk, a 13-year-old girl, said she and her twin sister had agreed to leave the Russian-occupied city of Kherson last year because of the war and go to a holiday…

Feb

2023

By The African Mirror

Ukrainian police rescue six-year-old girl from besieged Bakhmut

WORLD

IVAN LYUBYSH-KIRDEY UKRAINIAN police staged a risky rescue mission in the besieged eastern city of Bakhmut this week to evacuate a six-year-old girl who had become separated from her pregnant mother. Young Arina was found living with her grandparents in a run-down apartment building in Bakhmut, which has been pummelled by Russian forces in heavy fighting. After trudging through the snow to reach Arina, with artillery fire echoing in the distance, policeman Pavlo Dyachenko and two colleagues in combat gear drove Arina to the nearby city of Sloviansk to be reunited with her mother, Halyna Danylchenko. "A shell exploded in our…

Jan

2021

By The African Mirror

Tragic death of five lifesavers

NEWS

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SOUTH Africa is today mourning the deaths of four medics and a pilot who died on a mission to keep others alive. The five were killed enroute to KwaZulu Natal to pick up a critically ill patient. One of the doctors who died in the helicopter crash was part of a team that hours ealier had tried to save the life of Jackson Mthembu, the Minister in the Presidency, who died from COVID-19 complications at the Milpark Clinic in Johannesburg. Dr Kgopotso Rudolph Mononyane, an anaethetist from Johannesburg, delayed the team’s departure to KwaZulu-Natal so that he…