Days start early for SOS Vostok driver Vlad Savchenko, 48, of Slovyansk. He is one of several drivers for SOS, a Czech based NGO, risking his life in war torn Ukraine to help evacuate the elderly and disabled and those unable to flee hard hit areas. As fighting rages in southern Ukraine, volunteer medics are helping to evacuate the last civilians in the Donbass region as a new offensive from Russian forces looms. Millions of elderly and disabled Ukrainians are ‘at high risk’ because they are unable to flee the fighting. There are more than 7 million people age 60 or older in Ukraine and 2.7 million people with disabilities, according to the EU Disability Forum. Ukraine is trying to evacuate as many trapped civilians as possible, as Russia seeks to entrench a land passage between two separatist, self-proclaimed people’s republics in Donbas and the southern region of Crimea that Russia seized in 2014. Welcome to ‘The LAST to LEAVE’

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April 15, 2022, Medyka, Poland: An international group of Jews from Israel and Ukraine, along with Chinese, Scottish, Polish and others, celebrate a very special Passover at the Medyka Ukrainian Refugee Border Camp, an emergent humanitarian hub on the Polish side of the border between Poland and Ukraine, not far from Lviv. It was hosted by the Chinese volunteers in the New Federal State of China tent, and run by the Lev Echad, (One Heart in English) staff and volunteers from Israel and elsewhere. Passover is a holiday celebrating the passing over from slavery and oppression into freedom: both the past and present came together here last night in a beautiful celebration meaningful to all. This man is a volunteer with SSA, and today he provided assistance and security at the Woman and Children’s tent at Medyka. He was prepared to miss the Seder, ”Tending to the refugees is most important”, but he was able to stop by and join his fellow Jews at the end. (Credit Image: © Amy Katz/ZUMA Press Wire)

April 15, 2022, Przemysl, Poland: Bohdan lysun and his black cat Crowley late at night at the Przemysl trains station: both made refugees by Putin’s devastating war in Ukraine, are fleeing the Ukraine city of Cherkasy, with their mother, through Poland, Germany and with hope, to the United Kingdom. They left behind his father, who must fight in the war, and two other kittens, which he said were going to a shelter in Ukraine and he hoped would be rescued, too, like him, and adopted by a kind Polish family. (Credit Image: © Amy Katz/ZUMA Press Wire)

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April 17, 2022, Przemysl, Poland: Nun on Easter standing amongst Ukrainian refugee children on Easter Sunday, at the Przemysl train station. A long line of people waiting fo leave the train station. (Credit Image: © Amy Katz/ZUMA Press Wire)

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April 13, 2022, Przemysl, Poland: Ukrainian refugee girl with freckles holds and kisses her dog at Przemysl train station, as her parents (not in picture) try to figure out where to go and what to do, after fleeing Russia’s terror in Ukraine. (Credit Image: © Amy Katz/ZUMA Press Wire)

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April 11, 2022, Soucy, France : MARINE LE PEN, center, smiles while taking a selfie with supporters. Le Pen is travelling to Soucy (Yonne) on Monday, the day after her qualification in the second round of the presidential election. (Credit Image: © LE PARISIEN/Olivier Lejeune/Maxppp via ZUMA Press)

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April 13, 2022, Kyiv Region, Ukraine: Destroyed military equipment of the Russian army is seen near the village of Dmytrivka, Bucha district, Kyiv Region, north-central Ukraine (Credit Image: © Pavlo Bahmut/Ukrinform via ZUMA Press Wire)

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October 13, 2021: Domestic and foreign tourists among the ruins of the ancient city of Ephesus which was a city in ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, 3 kilometres southwest of present day Selcuk in Izmir Province, Turkey. Ephesus ancient city, which welcomes over a million tourists a year, was built in the 10th century BC by Attic and Ionian Greek colonists on the site of the former Arzawan capital. (Credit Image: © Tolga Ildun/ZUMA Press Wire)

Apr 5, 2015 – Moab, Utah, U.S. – Mountain biker TIM LANE riding the red slickrock sandstone on Captain Ahab trail on Amasa Back. Moab sports some of the most spectacular and challenging mountain biking anywhere. Porcupine Rim and Slickrock are top on the list of red rock rides that made Moab famous. Moab is surrounded by the spectacular Southeastern Utah red rock desert and by by Canyonlands National Park, Bryce and Zion National Parks, Grand Canyon National Park’s North Rim, Arches National park and the Colorado River. Moab is home to some of the greatest mountain biking on the planet, and has a huge variety of trails for mountain bikers of any experience level, from beginners looking for a scenic ride through beautiful canyons and mesa tops, to seasoned bikers looking for the ultimate challenge. (Credit Image: © Ruaridh Stewart/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)

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At least 403 civilian bodies, many of whom were brutally tortured and killed, were discovered in mass graves in Bucha, a once affluent suburb of Kyiv. The grim work now begins in Bucha gathering evidence of possible war crimes by Russian troops. The media tour was intended to show journalists the horrors that Ukrainian forces have uncovered in recent days before investigators remove the bodies and start the careful work of gathering evidence. The forensic process will be necessary to counter the Kremlin’s insistence its forces are not to blame for the deaths of civilians, as Moscow has claimed the atrocities were staged or carried out by Ukrainian forces. Images of the atrocities committed in towns of Irpin and Bucha near Kyiv have drawn condemnation around the world. Ukrainian authorities hope it could influence the western response to the invasion of Ukraine put in motion by Russian president Putin on February 24. Welcome to ‘War Crimes Watch: BUCHA’S HORROR’

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