Four years after the Ukrainian town experienced some of the war’s worst atrocities, a 21-year-old planted bombs outside his own apartment building

On a recent evening in March, Bohdan Tymchenko, a quiet and unassuming man from Bucha, logged on to his computer to play the popular video game World of Tanks. Less than two weeks later, he planted two bombs outside his flat.

What unfolded in the intervening days offers a stark glimpse into a growing pattern: Ukrainians drawn in online by Russian intelligence services, promised money or coerced into carrying out sabotage attacks against their own country.

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The sprint sensation was pushed to new heights in the 200m final by an unlikely opponent at the Australian Athletics Championships

It didn’t look good for Gout Gout. He had started the 200m final at the Australian Athletics Championships relatively well, and was positioned just off the lead at the start of the straight.

But, there – who was that? The man wearing all black, two lanes on the inside. An athlete who appeared to match the global phenomenon step by step just when Gout was expected to pull away.

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Ukraine's military said it recorded nearly 2,300 violations, while Russia's said almost 2,000 breaches occurred as of Sunday morning.

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Bela Shayevich (n+1, 04/06/26), "Miss Translation column 2": "For our very first puzzle, I chose a poem by Kári Tulinius called 'MARG URÞÚ SEMS YRGR' ... The challenge of the puzzle was this: to render the English text using exclusively four letter words, following the Icelandic. The poem has four stanzas with four words each." Poems with 4 feet, groups of 4 lines, or both are more familiar. And in 1619, de Porchères's sonnet "Vœux pour sa maiesté" put 4 exchangeable phrases in 4 columns; in 1822, Rougemaître's poem generator "La Tragédie Burlesque" turned any 4 4-letter words into 4 lines in an absurd poem; and in 1965, May Swenson made a poem of "Four Word Lines." But this poem's themes and wave-like iconicity may call to mind a Titanic shape poem, "The Convergence of the Twain." The next puzzle translates assonance in a Spanish poem by Karmelo Iribarren.