Alya Shandra

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Alya Shandra is the editor-in-chief at Euromaidan Press. Before joining Euromaidan Press, she participated in environmental research and education projects. Alya can be contacted at alya.shandra (a) gmail.com, on twitter @AlyaShandra., or FB

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Ukraine

She disappears as a person. Ukraine’s first study of 160,000 mothers of disabled children.

"It breaks my heart. If it breaks yours too, let's think about how we can make a difference in these women's lives together,"—Niya Nikel, report co-author.

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Analysis

Zaluzhnyi now blames Zelenskyy for the counteroffensive. He wasn’t always so sure.

Ukraine's cursed 2023 counteroffensive ran into Europe's largest fortified belt without air cover. The blame game between Kyiv's leaders lets the biggest culprit off the hook.

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Euromaidan Press

She showed up. In memoriam: Christine Eliashevsky-Chraibi

She wrote the truth, and the truth traveled.

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Interview

Russia’s allies keep dying. Russia keeps doing nothing. Defense analyst explains the Axis of Evil’s fatal flaw.

The whole system runs on one thing. Take it away, and there's no axis at all.

9 minute read

Latest news Ukraine

3,000 women march in wartime Kyiv demanding rights the state is quietly rewriting

First Women's March since Russia's full-scale invasion targets draft civil code, military harassment, and captive servicewomen

Ukrainian soldier installs Starlink. Photo from open sources

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Latest news Ukraine

Starlink crackdown cripples Russians—but American engineer warns Ukraine is just as vulnerable

Elon could just as easily switch off Ukraine's command and control

Vacancies: News reporter, fundraising communications manager

Euromaidan Press is expanding and searching for professional soulmates who believe in independent journalism. If you would like…

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Vacancy: news reporter / SMM editor

Want to tell Ukraine's story to the world? We're looking for a journalist who gets it. Euromaidan Press…

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International

Volunteers supply 95% of Ukraine’s military trucks. Watch their 30-hour drive to Kyiv

Documentary "No Sleep Til Kyiv" now free on YouTube—released as vehicle losses hit 1,000 per month

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International

First time ever: NATO allies send soldiers to counter threats from the United States

Denmark surges 350 soldiers as Trump demands Greenland and tariffs objectors

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukraine charges ex-PM Tymoshenko with bribing MPs, sets $761,000 bail

Ukraine's High Anti-Corruption Court set bail on 16 January at UAH 33 mn ($761,000) for former Prime Minister…

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Ukrainian politics

Tymoshenko has survived every era. This one has recordings.

Six months after celebrating gutting Ukraine's anti-graft agencies, she faces bribery charges for buying MPs' votes

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew signing the tomos of autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine on January 5, 2019. Metropolitan Epiphanius of Ukraine stands behind him. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

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International

“Antichrist in a cassock”: Russia’s spy agency declares war on Ecumenical Patriarch

SVR's invective against Bartholomew comes days after Putin calls his war a "holy mission"

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrskyi (center), reviewing a military map with Ukrainian officers in Donetsk Oblast on 4 October 2025

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Analysis

The Soviet disease plaguing both armies—and the Ukrainian brigades trying to cure it

Two cities fell in late 2025 because commanders lied about holding them. The difference in what happened next may decide the war.

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