“Zmiy” Vlad Sord is a poet and veteran with the nom de guerre “Zmiy”. He is from Rudnytsia, Vinnytsia Oblast. At the age of 16, he ran away from home to Crimea and enrolled in the Yaroslav Mudry National Law University of Crimea....
Back in 2015, the 57-year-old couldn’t just watch Ukrainian soldiers on television, defending the country against Russia’s war. Serhiy’s age meant the military recruiting office rejected him three times; but he...
Volodymyr Batischev used to serve in the military. Ballroom dance was his favorite hobby. In his mid-50s, he received a second degree in it and made the hobby his work. Apart from ordinary dance classes, he has special ones – for the...
Some twenty soldiers are sitting at a table, assiduously drawing and painting angels with the help of volunteers. Most of them have never worked on paper or canvas. The task is to draw an angel. Artur Spirin is one of the few veterans that...
Hundreds of Ukrainian war veterans, servicemen, and police officers have taken part in a global social media campaign. The “22 PushUp Challenge” aims to shed light on the staggering number of veterans who commit suicide every...
After losing both legs at the front, Oleksandr Chalapchy invested all his disability compensation in an eco-friendly business that he launched a few months ago. He opened a factory producing biofuel made from straw and sunflower waste in...
This is a story of motivation, self-esteem, faith and courage of the people who were able to find their place in this life. “Any person can dance tango. You really don’t need a perfect body or long legs,” believes Oleksiy...
This time the war has claimed the life of Ruslan Yurchyshyn, a young ATO soldier from Ivano-Frankivsk (western Ukraine). Ruslan died on the night of January 1 and 2 in the village of Dori (near Yaremche, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast). He was on...
2020 was a hard year for nearly the entire world: the COVID-19 pandemic and the multiple ensuing crises showed how easily our civilization can be upset by something as microscopic as a virus. Ukraine faced additional challenges. Ukrainian...
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