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Elizaveta Sherstuk, director of a Ukrainian Jewish organization in the town of Sumy, who is one of 12 people chosen to light torches to mark the start of Independence Day, in an undated photograph. (Jewish Distribution Committee)
May 4, 2022, 4:04 pm
She helped get hundreds to safety in Ukraine; now she lights a torch in Jerusalem
Elizaveta Sherstuk was chosen to represent the Diaspora at Israel’s main Independence Day ceremony. ‘This is the acknowledgment of the importance of what we do’
By Judah Ari Gross
Ukrainians crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee crossing the Irpin river in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
March 8, 2022, 5:11 pm
Ukraine accuses Russia of attacking humanitarian corridors as civilians flee cities
Kyiv denounces Moscow shelling of evacuation routes in Sumy and Mariupol as ‘genocide’; number of refugees fleeing Ukraine tops two million
By Dmitry Zaks and Dave Clark
A Ukrainian police officer helps people as artillery echoes nearby while fleeing Irpin in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
March 8, 2022, 12:34 pm
Evacuation from Sumy begins as Ukraine says Russian offensive ‘slowed significantly’
Ukrainian rescue services report 21 civilians killed in airstrike on besieged city; Kyiv’s deputy PM charges Moscow ‘has planned to disrupt’ humanitarian corridors
By Agencies and TOI staff
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