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97-year-old Ivan Lysun from the Kharkiv region, who had bravely faced the atrocities of World War II at the tender age of 18 when drafted into the front lines of the Red Army and made...
- WWII veterans fall victim to Ukraine conflict - MSN
Valentina Shevchenko, at the age of 88, was killed in...
- WWII veterans fall victim to Ukraine conflict - MSN
The four named battles are: First Battle of Kharkov, an October 1941 battle in which German troops captured the city. Second Battle of Kharkov, a May 1942 battle in which Soviet forces attempted to retake the city.
20 maj 2024 · World War II-era German soldiers’ helmets and insignia that were found during an excavation in the Kharkiv region in 2021. For some Ukrainians, it has all happened within one lifetime —...
Valentina Shevchenko, at the age of 88, was killed in Mariupol from hunger and cold. As a child, she survived World War II, even though she was left alone without her mother. 96-year-old Borys...
97-year-old Ivan Lysun from Zolochiv, in the Kharkiv oblast, has been left with his jacket and the many medals he received for courage and his military service when he fought, together with Russians, against the Nazi invaders, and very little else.
24 mar 2022 · President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, the grandson of a Red Army veteran, repurposed language from that conflict, describing a “patriotic war” underway, a reference to the Great...
10 mar 2022 · KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Alevtina Shernina was a young girl when she survived the brutal siege of Leningrad during World War II. Eight decades later, so frail she can barely talk, or move unassisted, she is besieged again.
