Illya Titko, the author of Blood Formula, was a volunteer soldier, serving as Senior Lieutenant in the Ukrainian Armed Forces between 2015 and 2016. In the foreword of the book, Olena Kusmirchuk explains her father’s motivation to...
If reading Taras Shevchenko, the iconic Ukrainian serf-turned-national poet of the XIX century, is like striking a match in a dark room filled with explosives, as the life-changing effect of his poetry has been described, then reading...
It should be noted that his mobilization was an assignment for which he volunteered. As a senior engineer in his company, it was his job to inform fellow workers when they were conscripted into service, and on one occasion, in 2015, he...
Saskatoon, February 1993| April 26 is the anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. The most important information agreed on at this stage is that the sixty three kilograms of radioactive material thrust into the atmosphere by the two...
On 17 April 2015, the Basmanny court in Moscow once again refused to dismiss Nadiya Savchenko’s case, refusing to settle an appeal by her lawyers. The 33-year old pilot had been kidnapped on Ukrainian territory in June 2014 and...
When the commander of battalion Azov, Andrii Biletskyi, commented recently on the reluctance of Ukrainian bureaucrats to fight an open military war against Russia, I knew I had found an example of what psychologists call “betrayal...
Michael A. Newton, a lawyer in international law, has written an affidavit showing how Nadiya Savchenko’s defence can be established through two concepts: 1. the laws and customs of warfare; 2. compliance with recognized human...
Imagine a time so filled with anticipation that as the family prepares the house for the evening Christmas meal, arguments among the children are forbidden, and the smallest detail is considered so that all may know that this is no...
“Whatever else I may do or think in the future, I must never pretend that I haven’t seen this.” Malcolm Muggeridge, Winter in Moscow I have undertaken what can only be described as a daunting task, namely, to reflect as a...
De-humanization first, then their destruction can be justified Steve Komarnyckyj explains the title of his lecture by saying the following: “Those politicians, and diplomats who know of what happened in 1933, but choose to avert...
In October 2022, a few weeks before the Ukrainian Army liberated Kherson, Russian soldiers parked several school buses next to the Regional Art Museum named after Oleksii Shovkunenko. Over four days, the invaders loaded their vehicles with...
