occupier

Example Sentences

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"Yesterday, a video appeared on the Internet showing how the Russian occupiers are showing their beastly nature - cruelly torturing a Ukrainian prisoner and cutting off his head," the SBU agency wrote on Telegram.

From Reuters

“I have a message for the British occupiers,” Murray said.

From Seattle Times

“The Russian occupiers intensified preparations for the evacuation of the local population in the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson,” the General Staff said in its morning update.

From New York Times

“The fact that the occupiers are shelling the civilian infrastructure of Zaporizhzhia region,” he added, indicates that Russia fears a possible Ukrainian offensive.

From New York Times

Ukrainian officials say the danger there is elevated by the Russian occupiers abusing the plant’s short-handed Ukrainian staff and stationing troops and weapons at the plant, which the Russians have denied.

From New York Times