Ukrainian soldiers of the 130th Territorial Defense Battalion of Kyiv have been defending strategically important population centres in eastern Ukraine. The Defenders find themselves in “operational encirclement” and are...
(Not recommended reading for the faint of heart) I am a ghostly “200”… That’s my official designation. I have the document to prove it. And yet, here I am. I move about, I eat, and I sleep. Just a few hours ago...
On 18 June, during the opening of the Berlin Poetry Festival, award-winning Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk made a powerful speech about the Russian-Ukrainian war “War is not a metaphor!”. It was translated from Ukrainian into...
After Russian troops retreated from Bucha in Kyiv Oblast, devastating images of execution-style murders, mass graves, and dead civilians appeared on the Internet. According to Ukrainian authorities, Russian forces killed at least 280...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
Massive, menacing concentrations of troops on Ukraine’s eastern and southern borders, intensified anti-Western propaganda attacks that do not shy away from lies, and obviously unacceptable demands on NATO and its member states: in...
How was the Belarusian People’s Republic established? Why are the white-red-white flag and Pahonia the national symbols of Belarus? Why did this historical date become the day of protest actions? And how did the protests turn into a...
A study by Chatham House found that more than a million people took part in the protests and each fifth city dweller. Quite a lot for a country of 9.5 million. First, Belarusians demanded free and fair elections. Later, demands to stop...
“This film is not fiction. This is what’s happening right now in Belarus – the country where law and justice haven’t been working for 26 years. My country.” Pavel Supanenka, a Belarus-born filmmaker...
On September 30, 2020, the international task group presented a preliminary report assessing the effectiveness of the investigation into the killing of Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli and Russian human rights activist Andrei...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
