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UNSPEAKABLE DEGRADATION
Liberated Ukrainians recall the horrific sexual abuse—called ‘Biden’s Call’—which they suffered the first time around as Russia threatens to re-occupy the region.
Anna Conkling is a freelance journalist based in Berlin. Her work surrounds human rights violations and the war in Ukraine. Her work has been featured in Rolling Stone, Elle magazine, and The Daily Beast.
‘COMBAT WITCHES’
Desperate Ukrainians are flocking to witches and psychics for advice on how to avoid becoming victims in the war.
UNDERGROUND HEROES
Russian teachers tell The Daily Beast they are working to counter the new Putin propaganda warping children’s minds. Some subtly, others out on the streets by night.
WATCH YOUR BACKS
Soldiers in Ukraine’s liberated East tell The Daily Beast that they fear pro-Russian locals will poison their food and rat out their locations to Putin’s forces.
SO WRONG
For many families, the only way to get out of Gaza is to pay a huge bribe to Egyptian officials with absolutely no guarantee that you will be allowed out of the warzone anyway.
MAGIC OF TELEVISION
A Ukrainian woman who was falsely imprisoned at the start of the war says she was forced to appear on multiple Russian state TV shows spewing the Kremlin’s lies at gunpoint.
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TWISTED
Ukrainian children are pressured into joining the Young Army program where they are brainwashed, trained to fight, and forced to make supply packages for the Russian invaders.
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WILLY WONKA WEAPON
Using old Soviet anti-aircraft guns and commercially bought kit, Ukrainians have fashioned a deadly new weapon system.
CAN’T LOOK AWAY
Soldiers and medics fighting Putin’s invasion told The Daily Beast that they have been watching the news from the Middle East with trepidation.
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ABANDONED
In interviews with The Daily Beast, soldiers recounted horror stories from the Nagorno-Karabakh onslaught after their Russian allies failed to intervene.