Vasyl Arkhipov Author: Nataliya Hurnytska Vasyl Vasylovych Arkhipov, 58 years old Date of birth: 31.10.1956 Date of death: 23.05.2014 Status: soldier Call sign: “Grandfather”, “Arkhip” Place of residence:...
The story of one death Author: Olena Stadnyk People have been dying since the dawn of time. This is true from time immemorial. Man is mortal and doomed to death. Heroes do not die. Heroes become constellations. Heroes hold the sky...
MAMA TANIA Author: Bohdan Zholdak Over the centuries, to the present day, leaders who have governed Ukraine have done absolutely nothing to ensure that Ukrainian heroes are commemorated in our country. So...
Oleksandr Kondratiuk. Saving Lives Author: Maksym Lyzhov “I’m going to war to save lives, not to fight,” volunteer soldier Oleksandr Kondratiuk reassuringly told his wife, Myroslava, as he prepared to leave for the...
Mykola Kozlov: Matviy, Grandson of Matviy Author: Yevhen Polozhiy In the context of his biography, Mykola Kozlov should have been one of the very first people to raise the Russian flag at city hall in his village in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast...
Volodymyr Pytak Author: Olha Dukhnich Nobody knows where that shirt originally came from. An embroidered black shirt, blacker than night, as black as freshly-plowed arable soil. Or maybe from that song about the embroidered black shirts...
Andriy Yurha’s Story Author: Oleksandr Tereshchenko Heavy summer rain falls on the thirsty soil; a lone nut on a nearby tree trembles under the pressure of large raindrops. Fragile asters sway helplessly, finding neither peace nor...
ABOUT VOLODIA, OLIA AND DANYLKO Author: Oleksandr Irvanets This story could have a fairytale beginning. Imagine: Olia and Volodia lived in a beautiful old city. They met, decided to be together, and got married. A son, Danylko, was born....
Look, Grandpa! They’re having a big celebration in heaven today! Author: Larysa Denysenko Svitlana was sure that she’d give birth to a son. He was so restless and lively in her womb; he was in a hurry to be born. Then, her...
Volodymyr Rybak Author: Tamara Horikha Zernia “He was an ordinary man in every way! You know what I mean? He wasn’t a misfit, or a saint, or an idealist, or a hapless dreamer. Of all the words one might use to describe...
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...
