The city sits 40 kilometers from Russia. Close enough to hear missile launches before sirens wail. Yet in one month, Kharkiv produced two world freediving champions.
While Ukraine fights for survival, Macron phones Putin. French MEP Glucksmann calls it peak European performance: busy, public, and strategically empty.
As the world debates peace, Mykhailo Malinovskyi's combat diary exposes the brutal truth: the Ukraine war everyone knew is over, replacing Bakhmut's past hell with "one chance in a hundred."
As Russian soldiers crawl over their own dead, Ukraine's ex-mufti saves the lives they claim — revealing what really drives the world's second army to raze peaceful cities.
Putin's imperial pageantry rests on an uncomfortable truth: the sound of Russian power was made by a Ukrainian whose identity Moscow is trying to erase.
For Ukrainian mothers, drone classes have replaced leisure, medical ID bracelets have become essential accessories, and a perpetually bleeding heart has become the price of loving more fiercely than ever before.
The composer who made Schoenberg sound tame vanished at his peak in 1920. A century later, his lost piano concerto comes home to Ukraine as air raid sirens wail over Lviv.
When the infamous Sednaya prison opened its gates, Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev traveled to Syria to uncover its horrors - mirroring the brutality he once endured in the notorious Izolyatsia torture chamber.