The ratification of a new law – “On the special order of local self-government in some areas of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts” – would transform Russian aggression and invasion into an “internal Ukrainian conflict”. In my...
“Ukraine has withdrawn its troops in Stanytsia Luhanska. Russia has not, and their military forces are still here. Russians are now walking around freely in the gray zone. Moreover, the war is escalating along the entire front line. If...
Euromaidan activist Ivan Hranatkin responded by publishing several photos of Pylypenko during the Maidan clashes, and asked him a pointed question: “So, Colonel, are you sleeping like a baby, you bastard?!” It should also be noted that...
How did you become a volunteer? It all began during the Revolution of Dignity. I wasn’t there on a regular basis, and I suppose that to make up for the guilt I felt not being with all those people at the Maidan continually, I slowly...
This 1941 photo documents a pile of ruins in the very center of Kyiv, which is now Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), on the corner of Institute and Khreshchatyk streets. The big ruined house is the “Ginzburg...
Putin doesn’t need the Donbas… this was the case even at the start of the war. The Donbas is not Crimea, which has a sacred importance for Russians and which is worth an enormous investment risk. Putin wants the Donbas to be part of...
Oleh Boyko, 14 years old My father was called Oleksandr Boyko. I live with my mother and older brother. Dad worked at Epicenter (home improvement & gardening supermarket). He wanted to become a professional boxer, but he was badly...
Because there are no cardinal changes which are able to preclude these revolutions. Society or people revolted against political factors which threatened their independence, but Ukraine traditionally was divided between two different...
My father, Viktor Makidon, was an officer in the Myrotvorets Battalion. He died of a heart attack in Sloviansk on July 22, 2014. He had retired before the war started in Eastern Ukraine, but decided returned to his duties as a policeman...
The pain could be relieved somewhat if he stared at the sky. It would recede deep behind the coping mechanisms of consciousness, gnawing at the spot where the bullet struck. The pain didn’t seem so daunting and consuming if he focused...
– It was September (1932-Ed). I was sitting in the sleeping car of the Moscow-Kharkiv express train that was taking me to my new job. … In the daytime, the bleak, suffering land looked even more frightening than at night. At...
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