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...
On June 29, in response to the continuous massive firing on their positions, the Ukrainian army was forced to retaliate with two brief hits at the advance positions of the 7th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Army Corps of the Russian...
Nearly every veteran of the zone of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) has had this experience: not long after they return from the ATO they encounter someone from the civilian population, or a non-veteran who works for the government or...
Four years after the Euromaidan Revolution, many people are wondering what it changed, and what it brought Ukraine. What is your opinion? I look at it from another point of view. It wasn’t Euromaidan that changed something – it was...
