My decision to go to Ovruch was pretty spontaneous. The city is located very close to the border with Belarus, through which the Russian army began its invasion of Ukraine. It all started with a call from a good friend of mine Nina, a...
In a resolution passed on Thursday, 5 May, in Strasbourg, the European Parliament condemned the use of rape by Russian soldiers as a deliberate tactic in the country’s war on Ukraine. Entitled ‘The Impact Of The War...
The picturesque village of Katiuzhanka is located 47 km north of Kyiv and is hidden in the deep woods. The area was seized by the Russian army in the early days of the war, and residents stayed under occupation for more than a month. It is...
More than 400 cases of brutal sexual abuse by Russian troops have been reported to the Ukrainian authorities, Liudmyla Denisova, the plenipotentiary of the Verkhovna Rada for human rights, says. And their numbers continue to grow each day...
“Give us your property or you will end up beheaded” Russian occupying forces continue to illegally appropriate the estate of Ukrainian private farms – confiscating products stored in enterprise warehouses and forcing...
My friend Nina is a journalist from Finland. She came to Ukraine just a few days after I came back from a village of Borodyanka, which had been completely destroyed by Russian occupiers. Together with Nina we decided to go to the Kyiv...
Rape – a “standard tactic” of the Russian military On 12 April, President Zelenskyy said that hundreds of rapes committed by Russian soldiers have been reported. Taking into account the numbers that appeared in the...
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...
On 3 April, a day after the world learned about Bucha massacre, Russian state-owned media RIA Novosti published a text “What Russia should do to Ukraine” written by Russian ideologist and political campaigner Timafey Sergeyev,...
Under the threat of encirclement, Russian troops retreated from devastated suburbs of capital Kyiv. The town of Bucha was one of the key points on the way of the Russian forces in their failed attempt to capture Kyiv. Shortly after the...
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...
