After the liberation of Izium from Russian occupation on 10 September in Ukraine’s offensive in northeastern Ukraine, a mass burial site was found. 447 bodies, including 22 soldiers, have been exhumed. Most of the exhumed...
As of 20 June 2022, over 1.2 mn Ukrainians, according to Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk, were forcibly transferred to Russia. The top officials of the European Union and the world’s leading human rights organizations...
After the liberation of Izium from Russian occupation on 10 September in Ukraine’s offensive in northeastern Ukraine, a mass burial site was found. 447 bodies, including 22 soldiers, have been exhumed. Most of the exhumed bodies...
121, 122, 123… Carelessly knocked together wooden crosses are marked with numbers. Their barely visible inscriptions blur into the vast pine forest encircling the city of Izium. On the outskirts of this recently liberated...
On 24 February 2022, two powerful columns of the Russian army broke into Sumy Oblast. One was intended to move towards Kyiv and join other Russian units, which were preparing to seize Chernihiv and block Kyiv from the left bank of the...
In early May, my friends and I decided to take a trip to the village Bohdanivka with to see how it was doing now, after nearly a month of occupation by Russian forces. Located 37 km from Kyiv, it bore the main brunt of the battle for the...
Putin’s brutal approach to eliminating the Ukrainian population currently centers on eastern and southern Ukraine. For journalists and human rights organizations, it is extremely difficult to gather information about Russian war...
Ukraine’s intelligence service has established that only 53 percent of the men who are listed as volunteers from Chechnya are in fact ethnic Chechens. The remainder are overwhelmingly ethnic Russians. Related: Inter-ethnic animosity...
The two Ukrainian soldiers lived on Myru Street in the village of Zdvyzhivka in Kyiv Oblast. Pavlo Kholodenko and Viktor Balay had known each other since early childhood. They grew up together, played together, and went to kindergarten and...
Before the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, each trip I took to the beautiful city of Chernihiv was always filled with great emotions and warm memories. I adore this city, not only because of the ancient architecture, and numerous...
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...
