Kontur https://konturnovosti.com/en_GB Kontur is comprised of a team of editors based in the United States and dozens of freelance reporters and content creators who live around the world. The mission of Kontur is to investigate and amplify stories of major importance that are often overlooked by local and regional media outlets. en-gb images/2026/06/26/56781-vtomleni-370_237.jpg Ukraine's new on-screen hero walks on prostheses From auteur film to 'The Bachelor,' Ukraine's wounded veterans are becoming the country's new cultural face -- depression, prostheses and all. http://konturnovosti.com/r/16e7g gc6/features/2026/06/26/feature-02 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 images/2026/06/25/56761-afp__20220317__326c7wg__v1__highres__russiaukraineconflict-370_237.jpg Russia wants kids back in the fields -- for the war effort As war drains its workforce, Russia is reviving Soviet-era youth labor camps, and critics say the real harvest is obedience, not produce. http://konturnovosti.com/r/16dvq gc6/features/2026/06/25/feature-01 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 images/2026/06/25/56759-florian_1-370_237.jpg The war that revived Ukrainian classical music Decades of being overshadowed by Moscow are ending, and it took a war to do it. http://konturnovosti.com/r/16dw8 gc6/features/2026/06/25/feature-02 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 images/2026/06/24/56745-afp__20260603__b4v73r6__v1__highres__russiaeconomypoliticsdiplomacyforum__1_-370_237.jpg Behind the staging, Russia's technology sector is hollow Tumbling robots, a relabeled Chinese car and falling research budgets: Russia's premier business forum revealed a country with little real technology to offer. http://konturnovosti.com/r/16dnt gc6/features/2026/06/24/feature-01 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 images/2026/06/24/56747-afp__20250728__683u2zu__v1__highres__russiatransportcyberattack-370_237.jpg Russians want to leave, but their passports won't come As emigration interest surges, Russians face months-long waits for the passports that would let them go, and some experts suspect the Kremlin wants it that way. http://konturnovosti.com/r/16dob gc6/features/2026/06/24/feature-03 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 images/2026/06/23/56724-afp__20260617__ukrinform-massiver260615_npsbf__v1__highres__massiverussianattackdama-370_237.jpg Why Russia's strike on the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra was no accident A Russian drone tore through the roof of one of Ukraine's most sacred sites -- historians say the strike, only the second of the war, was deliberate. http://konturnovosti.com/r/16dbt gc6/features/2026/06/23/feature-02 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 images/2026/06/23/56722-afp__20260618__b7gy7zq__v5__highres__russiaukraineconflict-370_237.jpg 'Got to get used to it': Moscow braces for more Ukrainian attacks The war Russian President Vladimir Putin promised wouldn't touch home has arrived in Moscow's streets. http://konturnovosti.com/r/16dcb gc6/features/2026/06/23/feature-03 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 images/2026/06/22/56685-afp__20260203__94yb3qm__v1__highres__russiaukraineconflict-370_237.jpg Russia's conscripts recount pressure to fight in Ukraine Russia turned a once-avoidable draft into a pipeline to the front line where conscripts are pressured, tricked and coerced into signing open-ended combat contracts. http://konturnovosti.com/r/16d6z gc6/features/2026/06/22/feature-01 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 images/2026/06/22/56698-afp__20260603__b4u38f3__v3__highres__topshotrussiaeconomypoliticsdiplomacyforum-370_237.jpg A former spy's message to Russia: get used to two decades of war A retired sleeper agent told Russia to settle in for a generational war , and the half-empty economic forum where he said it showed just how alone the country has become. http://konturnovosti.com/r/16d7h gc6/features/2026/06/22/feature-02 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 images/2026/06/19/56667-afp__20260609__b6hg3zv__v1__highres__estoniabalticnordicdiplomacydefence-370_237.jpg NATO bolsters northern flank as Nordic-Baltic allies back Ukraine's membership path From new rapid-reaction forces in Finland to a Tallinn summit pledge on Ukraine's 'irreversible' NATO future, the alliance is moving to harden its eastern edge against Russia. http://konturnovosti.com/r/16cvq gc6/features/2026/06/19/feature-01 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 images/2026/06/18/56682-1-vyezd-370_237.jpg Ukraine's most vulnerable make a hard, costly escape from occupation Stroke survivors, pregnant women and the paralyzed are now the ones fleeing Russian occupation, and the road out has never been harder. http://konturnovosti.com/r/16cu8 gc6/features/2026/06/18/feature-01 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 images/2026/06/18/56672-afp__20260312__a3234nt__v2__highres__russiaukraineconflictbelgorod-370_237.jpg Kremlin swaps civilian rule for military command on Ukraine's border Popularity, corruption and a worn-out body cost two border governors their jobs and handed their regions to the military. http://konturnovosti.com/r/16cuq gc6/features/2026/06/18/feature-02 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000