The three brothers were captured by the Russians after the occupation of their village. They were then taken to another location and interrogated for three days before being summarily executed in a nearby forest. When Ukrainian forces...
Oksana: “I did not want to live like that. I didn’t want to be a burden to my family.” I am 23 and I worked at the children’s hospital as a nurse in the neurology department. I have two children, a boy Illia and a...
Mariupol residents Mariya and her family spent almost one month hiding from Russian shelling and bombs. 17-year-old Mariya Vdovychenko lived happily with her family in Mariupol. She played the bandura, was elected school president, and...
A large modern metropolis spending a week without electricity. Could anyone imagine something like that happening in Ukraine before the war? The damages to the electric grid are a direct result of targeted strikes by the Russians against...
“I didn’t want to leave Mariupol, but on the first night after the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, high-ranking people approached me and said that my name was on the hit lists compiled by Russia. They said that I...
The town of Makariv is a small quiet picturesque place in the Kyiv Oblast. For a long time, it was famous for being one of the ancient settlements of the Kyivan Rus. But now Makariv is infamous for the atrocities that were committed by the...
First days of Russian war against Ukraine On 24 February, when the war started, I was in Karavan village near Kharkiv, working my shift at the equine-assisted rehabilitation center. I saw how it all began, how the MLRS were fired at...
My world before and after On 24 February 2022 at 5.30 a.m. my grandmother woke me up with a phone call and the words: “Grandchild, the war has begun.” I did not hear explosions and slept peacefully in my apartment in Cherkasy....
I stood on the sidewalk, full of motor oil stains, engine parts, and fragments of uniforms near a totally destroyed house in Bucha. The iron fence fell into the yard, bearing distinct tank tracks. Only charred remnants of the walls were...
“We didn’t plan to leave Kyiv under any circumstances. If it hadn’t happened to us and we had a place to live, we wouldn’t have left till the end. Not all people flee the city. Everyone thinks it will end well...
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...
