My story on Soslan Valiyev and Yulia Buiskich, two innocent people reportedly murdered by Wagner convicts who returned to their hometowns after Ukraine. “The state and personally Putin and Prigozhin are to blame for Yulia’s death,” one relative told me
theguardian.com/world/2023/apr… Yulia Buiskich, 85, was a “very active and cheerful person, full of life," according to a close relative. "She was so fond of travelling, she often travelled hundreds of miles to visit her friends and family.” She was killed in an axe attack at the end of March.

At the help centre for refugees from Mariupol in Kyiv, those who left the city as recent as this week paint a bleak picture of a place they once called home that is now controlled by Russia. "We had no gas or electricity. Only the lucky ones had water.”
theguardian.com/world/2022/jun… Anna Chasovnikova, the psychologist at the help centre, said she often found it hard to help patients.
“What do you say when a girl tells you how her father was blown up in front of her during his own birthday celebration?”