Grieving daughters told to pay £10k to bring dad's body home from Ukraine

Christopher Vourlias On the eve of the 79th Venice Film Festival, where his powerful Ukraine war documentary “Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom” will premiere out of competition on Sept. 7, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky was in a frantic race against time. Footage was still being shot in Ukraine into the second week of August, with Afineevsky only completing the film on Aug. 31 — the same day that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the A-list celebrities and foreign press at the festival’s opening ceremony, urging the world not to forget the war in Ukraine with the impassioned plea: “Don’t turn your back to us.”

a video posted to Twitter, which you can watch above. In the clip, Chastain is seen riding in the back of a car looking into a cell phone as she narrates a voiceover that lists statistics related to the Ukraine war, started after Russia invaded the country in February.“So the number of refugees who have fled Ukraine now stands at 5.1 million who’ve left for the European Union countries and another 7.7 million who are internally displaced,” Chastain says in the video, before reeling off more figures from the cost of the war as the video transitions to a montage of her hospital visits, including one in which she meets a young girl who presents her with a water-color painting.“Oh, wow,” Chastain says.

Several Ukrainian mothers break down as they open up about the trauma their family has lived through during Russia’s invasion in an exclusive clip for NBC News’ upcoming special “Ukraine: A Mother’s War.”The special follows the lives of five Ukrainian mothers, all survivors fighting in different ways. In the clip, which you can watch above, one of the women clutches the hands of foreign correspondent Molly Hunter as she details the horrors she’s been through.“It was all Russians raping, abusing, and torturing our people,” the woman cries.

Members of Stirling’s Ukrainian community joined together with locals to take part in an event showcasing the very best in the country’s culture.

More than 50 years after she made her Venice debut as the star of Luis Buñuel’s 1967 classic Belle du Jour, Catherine Deneuve is being feted by the festival with its Golden Lion for Career Achievement.

A family from Ukraine, who have found sanctuary in Strathearn, had a taste of home recently when they visited the sunflowers at Gloagburn.

The war in Ukraine has lead to delays in repairing potholes in England and Wales, local authorities have found. Pothole repair costs have soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to new analysis.

A homeowner who caused a stir constructing a barricade to stop people parking on his street is now so ‘famous’ people flock to meet him. Derek Woodacre, of Commonside Road in Mosley Common, said that since the news broke that his roadblock had been removed people from ‘across Manchester’ have come to visit him and see the site for themselves.

British soldiers have been told they must be ready for a war against Russia by a senior military officer. Warrant Officer Paul Carney has urged troops to inform their loved ones of potential deployment as the Russian invasion of Ukraine rages on.

Coldplay paid tribute to their 'old friend' Darius Campbell Danesh on Wednesday evening following his sudden death.