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...
… Everything’s very clear… we all know what really happened. (On June 1, 2017, Amina Okueva and her husband, Adam Osmayev, narrowly escaped death when Osmayev was shot by a man who identified himself as a journalist of the...
Oleksiy served in the war zone from 2014. He didn’t wait to be called up, persistently visited the recruitment office and was finally deployed to the war zone in Eastern Ukraine. Oleksiy talks about his experiences: I waited for that...
Dawn… The radio instantly erupts: “Myrnyi, take your group and move forward; we’re being attacked.” We have three men, plus a transport of six, and I am in the reserve group. I sit and wait, listening to the radio communications on...
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...
