Anatolii Shara

Invasion As Russia's "special military operation" turned Ivankiv into a war zone, a ragtag band of museum staff and locals decided that saving some folk art was more important than staying alive.

Thirty kilometers from the Ukrainian capital, the villages that saved it from the Russian invasion are now either ghost town or success story

Ivanivka is a village located on a crucial road between Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine’s steel capital) and occupied Kherson.…

Chased by Russian bombs I left early in the morning to visit the village. On my way, I…

On 24 February 2022, two powerful columns of the Russian army broke into Sumy Oblast. One was intended…

I spent two weeks in Donbas, a full-scale war zone. I spoke to many military men of different…

Before the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, each trip I took to the beautiful city of Chernihiv was…

My decision to go to Ovruch was pretty spontaneous. The city is located very close to the border…

The picturesque village of Katiuzhanka is located 47 km north of Kyiv and is hidden in the deep…

My friend Nina is a journalist from Finland. She came to Ukraine just a few days after I…

You probably have never heard about the small town of Borodianka before Russia’s war. Back in Soviet times,…

The town of Makariv is a small quiet picturesque place in the Kyiv Oblast. For a long time,…

I stood on the sidewalk, full of motor oil stains, engine parts, and fragments of uniforms near a…

It is quite natural that the COVID-19 pandemic is drawing all the attention because of its severe social…