In the French village of Oradour (June 1944), Nazis murdered 642 inhabitants; in the Czech village of Lidice (June, 1943) – 320, in the Belarusian village of Khatyn (March 1943) – 149 (according to contemporary German data...
This project is run as a private initiative under the auspices of KRYLA Ukrainian Volunteer Association http://kryla.org.ua/. Your generous gift is used to provide direct financial assistance to wounded soldiers and help purchase...
Franz Carlowitz Březicki (Ukr: Frants Karlovych Brzhezytsky) was born in a modest Polish working family in Zhytomyr on September 4, 1924. In the 1930s, Soviet authorities executed his father (who was fully rehabilitated later on), and his...
Yakutovych was born in an artistic family in Kyiv in 1952. His father, Heorhiy Yakutovych was an outstanding Ukrainian graphic artist, also known for his work in the cinema, including Serhiy Paradzhanov’s legendary film – Shadows...
The war in Ukraine is no longer regularly reported in western media; when it is, the focus is generally on military activity or the breaking of the Minsk agreements. What is often neglected is the network of civil society volunteers that...
His friend Valeriy Lohinov, call sign “Askold”, remembers him fondly: “Valentyn enlisted in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and served in the Sniper Corps of the 95th Mobile Division. He was young, healthy and happy… a very cheerful...
A raven croaks its dreary song above the man sitting in darkness, A darkness covered in sorrow, even in his troubled dreams… No hope, torn by tears and grief, the man is slowly dying… A hero, a son of Ukraine – but forgotten and...
LEMKOS According to one version, Lemko ancestors were the ancient tribes of White Croats who lived on the slopes of the Carpathian Mountains. The number of Lemkos on territories of pre-war Poland was estimated between 100,000 and...
In particular, El Pais notes that Zozulya has never used Nazi symbols, but on the contrary, has demonstrated patriotic sentiment and is fully committed to the idea that military action is needed to return the Donbas to Ukraine....
After dinner, children drive the kutya symbolically away from the house. They run outside, beat a chosen corner of their home with long sticks and chant rhymes honouring kutya and the didukh. As night falls, the didukh is carried out of...
Free independent media is a necessary condition for democracy to function in any country. Censorship, on the other hand, is rampant in all its forms in dictatorships. These definitions may be relevant in a black and white world; in...
