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the arrival of afternoon – making it easier for drones to stalk the skies – and Oleksii and his wife were only halfway through what might be the world’s most dangerous newspaper delivery route delivering copies of the weekly Vorskla to subscribers in an active war zone The Pasiuhas’ newspaper route is an information lifeline for the few hundred people who remain in Velyka Pysarivka and the surrounding villages Russian artillery and air strikes have methodically destroyed every cellular communications tower in the area Most residents haven’t had internet access for months and while they can still watch Ukraine’s state-controlled main television channels there’s little to be gleaned there about what’s happening in this remote and disconnected corner of the country as well as news about the lives and deaths of Velyka Pysarivka residents fighting on the front lines 24 edition was about a local man – an event planner before the war – who had been fighting in the front line city of Pokrovsk but returned home for two weeks to try to convince others to enlist Vorskla is as scarred as the town it reports on The newspaper’s main office had its windows blown in and doors ripped off their hinges last March when a guided bomb slammed into the adjacent post office to move the paper’s editorial headquarters to the city of Okhtyrka and to shift its printing operation to Vinnytsia The Pasiuhas work together to deliver new editions of Vorskla Founded in Stalinist times and named for a nearby river the paper has served the community for 95 years.Olga Ivashchenko/The Globe and Mail The national Ukrposhta postal service says it’s not safe to deliver to hot zones like Velyka Pysarivka So Oleksii and Natalia – a 53-year-old insurance broker who also does some writing and design work for Vorskla – lay the paper out every Tuesday getting it printed in time to have 600 copies mailed back to them from Vinnytsia by Thursday the couple gets into their Daewoo sedan and begin the nervous drive from Okhtyrka to Velyka Pysarivka with the newspapers piled in the back Others they leave in bundles with friends who volunteer to pass them on to subscribers living nearby The rest they leave in piles at the half a dozen small shops still operating in and around Velyka Pysarivka where they’re sold onwards for between 35 and 50 cents apiece The Pasiuhas see their delivery run as their contribution to the war effort Most of the radio stations available in Velyka Pysarivka are from across the border in Russia often mixing entertainment programming with not-too-subtle Kremlin propaganda who added the slogan “With Ukraine In The Heart” to the paper’s masthead after the start of the invasion says he doesn’t try to counter propaganda with propaganda But he admits that he tries to make the news as positive as possible we try to give people hope that the displaced people will come back you just have to wait until the end of the war.” locals in Velyka Pysarivka who need news would have fewer alternatives to the propaganda-heavy radio broadcasts from Russia.Olga Ivashchenko/The Globe and Mail Both Oleksii and Natalia are naturally chatty and prone to laughter But they fell silent as they passed the sign marking the entrance to Velyka Pysarivka where Oleksii grew up and where the couple raised their daughter while Natalia cracked her window open so she could listen for the tell-tale buzz of Russian drones overhead Natalia pays attention to the sounds outside who was behind the wheel during last Friday’s delivery run Velyka Pysarivka was briefly occupied early in the war when Russian troops entered the town and took control of much of the surrounding Sumy region before withdrawing in the face of fierce resistance But the biggest hits were sustained over the past year as Ukrainian troops began using Sumy as a staging ground for cross-border attacks into the neighbouring Russian regions of Belgorod and Kursk drawing heavy Russian air and artillery strikes in response Destroyed bridges and other infrastructure make it harder for those remaining in Velyka Pysarivka to get around safely school and mini-mall have all been destroyed and an official evacuation was carried out last March The few who stayed are mostly elderly residents who say they couldn’t fathom living anywhere else The 600 newspapers that Oleksii and Natalia deliver to Velyka Pysarivka represent about 40 per cent of the paper’s overall print run Natalia said most of the other subscribers are former residents of the town – which had a pre-war population of 4,000 – who are now scattered around other parts of Ukraine but still feel attached to a place they were forced to leave we wouldn’t know what’s happening – we have no mobile connections the 64-year-old owner of a small grocery store that is the third stop on the Pasiuhas’ route He said he sells 10 or 15 copies of the newspaper each week from his shop which remains open despite being hit by a barrage of explosive drones late last year A grocery store on the road to Velyka Pysarivka is still open for business and the Pasiuhas keep it stocked with new weekly editions of the paper The house with the blue gate and boarded-up windows is the most dangerous stop on their route; a sign at the end of the road warns that the Russian border is straight ahead Despite the risks – the windows and roof were blown off by one of the many explosions to hit the street – Valentyna Honcharenko came out to meet her guests The 62-year-old ecologist said the weekly newspaper delivery – and the accompanying chat with her friends delivering it – was “a ray of sunshine” in her life “I watch a lot of news about the war and everything but I also want to see what’s happening in my own community as her dog Pushinka twisted around her feet Oleksii believes Vorskla also has a duty to tell the story of how the war has changed Velyka Pysarivka and the villages around it “We didn’t miss the death of a single soldier from the Velyka Pysarivka and Kyrykivka communities,” he said adding that 60 residents of the areas had been killed on the front line so far while another 10 civilians had been killed by Russian attacks We not only wrote the fact that these soldiers died but also what these soldiers were like in peacetime.” Even as Ukraine is knocked about by world events – the days since U.S President Donald Trump’s inauguration have seen the country’s future volleyed about in public remarks by both Mr Trump – Natalia says it’s local news that Vorskla’s readers want most Vorskla was perhaps one of the few newspapers anywhere in the world not to print a single word about Mr “People only want to hear the news of how he ended the war in 24 hours,” Oleksii said Trump’s campaign-time boast that he could end the conflict in a day I’ll put him on the front page for a month.” Analysis: Trump is promising to end the war in Ukraine. 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commander of Velyka Pysarivka – whose pre-war population of 4,000 has now been partially evacuated – on Thursday "We've gone from a prosperous town to ruins," continued the policeman whose main task until recently had been to organize surveillance patrols At the start of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 the Kremlin's forces had indeed passed through the center of the municipality before being halted at the neighboring town of Okhtyrka a semblance of peaceful life had gradually returned to the town despite its close proximity to the border and the sporadic bombings that continued to strike the territory You have 81.44% of this article left to read Lecture du Monde en cours sur un autre appareil Vous pouvez lire Le Monde sur un seul appareil à la fois Ce message s’affichera sur l’autre appareil Parce qu’une autre personne (ou vous) est en train de lire Le Monde avec ce compte sur un autre appareil Vous ne pouvez lire Le Monde que sur un seul appareil à la fois (ordinateur En 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village She added that evacuation services and consultations would be provided by the village council's specialists via telephone and online explosions were heard in Sumy during an air raid the Russian invaders struck twice at the city's infrastructure The missile attack damaged civilian infrastructure Russian troops launched a missile attack on Konotop the city's civilian infrastructure came under attack a 330 kV high-voltage line of NPC Ukrenergo was disconnected in Sumy region as a result of enemy shelling it became known that an engineer was killed as a result of Russian strikes on radio engineering facilities in Sumy region On the night of March 14, Russian troops struck Sumy with Shaheds, hitting a high-rise building, causing injuries and death. Later, the body of one more person was pulled out of the rubble, bringing the total number of victims to three. In total, emergency search operations at the site of the enemy attack lasted four days by Olena GoncharovaAn aerial view of the city center of Sumy Russian struck the city in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy Oblast in the early hours of March 6 (RoNeDya / Getty Images)Russian forces struck three communities in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy Oblast in 12 separate attacks throughout the day the Sumy Oblast Military Administration reported on March 24 At least 50 explosions were reported in the region over the past 24 hours The communities of Bilopillia, Krasnopillia, and Velyka Pysarivka were targeted Russia assailed the border communities with mortar Drones also dropped explosives onto the town of Krasnopillia and surrounding areas while two other communities experienced several airstrikes experienced the bulk of the attacks with 23 explosions reported The community is located directly on the Ukraine-Russia border Russian assaults on Sumy Oblast have escalated in recent weeks with Velyka Pysarivka emerging as a primary target Earlier this week, a Russian aerial bomb struck the town, resulting in one civilian death, while another person sustained injuries. Authorities reported extensive damage to numerous residences, a hospital, and a kindergarten. An attack on March 19 also claimed the life of one civilian in the town In response to the surge in Russian attacks, local officials have intensified evacuation efforts in Velyka Pysarivka with nearly 300 residents being relocated this week Olena Goncharova is the Head of North America desk at The Kyiv Independent where she has previously worked as a development manager and Canadian correspondent Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper’s Canadian correspondent in June 2018 Olena has a master’s degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia by Nate Ostiller, The Kyiv Independent news deskUkraine's military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov speaks at the third annual Kyiv Stratcom Forum 2024 in Kyiv on March 27 (HUR/Telegram)Ukraine's military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov refuted on March 31 earlier claims by Ukrainian military officials that Russia dropped a 1.5 ton (3,300 lbs) bomb on Sumy Oblast for the first time The UPAB-1500B gliding bomb was first unveiled at a Russian arms expo in 2019 The 117th Brigade of Ukraine's Armed Forces claimed on March 30 that Russian forces had used the bomb for the first time in an attack on the community of Velyka Pysarivka in Sumy Oblast Budanov said in comments on national television that it was not the first time Russian forces have used such a weapon in Ukraine "I can directly deny it," Budanov said "There's nothing new in this," he added The Ukrainian military-focused media outlet Defense Express, citing unnamed sources, claimed earlier in March that the bomb had been used for the first time Residents of the vulnerable communities along Sumy Oblast's northeastern border experience daily attacks from nearby Russian forces. Russia has intensified assaults in recent weeks, leading to large-scale evacuations from the region Russia attacked 12 communities along the Sumy Oblast border on March 30 the regional military administration reported the officer observed a section of the border at “Velyka Pysarivka” (Sumy region) which was the first to take the fight during the vicious Russian invasion of Ukraine Artem says that at 4:30 the checkpoint “Velyka Pysarivka” began to be “covered” with small arms and grenade launchers a large column of enemy equipment began to move from Russia: the BRDMs UAZ and other combat vehicles without appropriate distinguishing marks and inscriptions The border guards immediately accepted the fight and for what purpose they were shelling our positions when it became known that border units were under fire throughout the border we realized that there was a full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian armed forces The enemy dominated both armored vehicles and personnel,” the officer recalls The forces that were at the checkpoint at the time were insufficient to hold back the enemy's offensive The border guards had to withdraw to link up with other forces of the unit in order to occupy the defenses in the designated area and the forward group of border guards together with units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine returned to the line of the state border of Ukraine at the area of responsibility of the unit “Velyka Pysarivka” The help of the local population was quite powerful whether there were regular troops on our territory “Before the decision to knock out the enemy in this direction tremendous work and a number of successful operations were carried out by the soldiers of 93 brigade “Cold Yar” When we and the soldiers of the Armed Forces entered Bolshoy Pisarivka the enemy had already retreated to the territory of the Russian Federation but during the withdrawal he constantly subjected the village to shelling,” says Artem He emphasizes that in the context of hostilities the coherence between all services and forces is very important the units that are currently part of the Defense Forces were assigned different tasks the main thing was to protect the state border of Ukraine to carry out border control at checkpoints The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are assigned their tasks we maintain a defined section of the state border There are no characteristic actions of the enemy regarding the attack on the village of Velyka Pysarivka but the enemy constantly carries out shelling in this direction there are also shock copters for dropping explosive devices the Russians use helicopters from their territory They do not violate the airspace of Ukraine because they are afraid of being hit and shot down on our territory,” the border guard continues the Russians went to war on Ukraine because they understand: our state began to move forward The northern neighbors cannot adequately perceive this: in their barbaric view We will force the enemy to leave our land and revive Ukraine strengthen and survive happily in our native wealthy State Press service of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine We use cookies to provide you with better navigation on our website you automatically agree to the use of these technologies.