The Kharkiv institute, just 14 miles from the front, once helped design Soviet atomic bombs. U.S. aid funded its particle accelerator in return for removing weapons-grade uranium, but the lab still stores highly radioactive fuel. 2/
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Russian drones and rockets damage lab, threaten uranium fuel rods
Russian drones and rockets punched holes in the lab’s walls, knocked plaster from control rooms, and once left the building without power for months. Engineers had to rely on backup heating to stop uranium fuel rods from freezing and cracking. 3/
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Russian strikes on Kharkiv nuclear lab; five officers charged
NYT: Russians hit a Kharkiv nuclear lab 74 times. The site holds dozens of pounds of enriched uranium in its Neutron Source device — enough to contaminate the area where 640,000 people live if scattered. Ukrainian prosecutors charged five Russian officers for targeting it. 1/
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Pologne trouve débris de 16 drones russes
Poland finds debris from 16 drones launched by Russia. Polish emergency services have found debris from 16 drones launched by Russia, the Polish radio station RMF FM reported late on Sept. 10.
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Ukraine: 9,000 UOC priests, 180 cases, 38 convictions, cut Moscow ties
Ukraine’s record: 9,000 UOC(MP) priests serve. SBU opened 180 cases (incl. 23 bishops); courts convicted 38 — only those who aided Russia. Kyiv asks UOC(MP) to cut legal ties to Moscow. Other denominations worship freely. 5X
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Militants shot Protestants; Russians tortured pastors to death in Ukraine
June 8, 2014: militants shot four Protestants in Sloviansk. Russians tortured Pastor Oleksandr Khomchenko on a rack; he later died. Feb 2024, Kalanchak: they tortured priest Stepan Podolchak to death for serving in Ukrainian and refusing the Moscow Patriarchate. 4/
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Occupiers arrest and torture over 100 Protestant pastors in Melitopol
Occupiers have arrested and tortured 100+ Protestant pastors. In 2023 in Melitopol they closed every non-MP church; Wagner turned the city’s largest Protestant church into an office. 3/
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Two Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests freed after 3 years of Russian torture
Ukraine brought home two UGCC priests — Bohdan Heleta and Ivan Levitsky — after nearly 3 years in Russian captivity. Russians beat them, starved them, staged mock executions. They returned emaciated, nearly blind — for being Greek Catholics. 2/
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Russia Persecutes Christians in Ukraine
Since 2022, Russian troops have destroyed 652 churches and killed 67 pastors/priests, according to National Review. In occupied areas, they detain, torture, and execute clergy, and shut down all churches not under the Moscow Patriarchate.
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Zelenskiy offers aid and military cooperation to Tusk
Zelenskiy to Polish Prime Minister Tusk: Ukraine has offered Poland assistance, training and experience in shooting down Russian drones, including Shahed. "We have agreed on cooperation at the military level and will coordinate actions with all NATO allies,"