Christine Chraibi

The ritual is older than Christianity. The Soviets tried to kill it. It survived—and this year, once again, soldiers will observe it from the trenches

Three Russian athletes already barred. More face scrutiny before Milan-Cortina 2026.

The city sits 40 kilometers from Russia. Close enough to hear missile launches before sirens wail. Yet in one month, Kharkiv produced two world freediving champions.

Ukraine declared independence in 1991; Russia has been trying to crush it ever since.

Global demonstrations reject territorial concessions as bilateral meeting sidelines Ukrainian president

Nobody drafted them; nobody forced them. These women fighters chose to go to war and face death.

Ukraine's "cardboard revolution" proved teenagers can save democracy with markers, literary references, and perfectly placed f-bombs.

While Ukraine fights for survival, Macron phones Putin. French MEP Glucksmann calls it peak European performance: busy, public, and strategically empty.

As the world debates peace, Mykhailo Malinovskyi's combat diary exposes the brutal truth: the Ukraine war everyone knew is over, replacing Bakhmut's past hell with "one chance in a hundred."

As Russian soldiers crawl over their own dead, Ukraine's ex-mufti saves the lives they claim — revealing what really drives the world's second army to raze peaceful cities.

Putin's imperial pageantry rests on an uncomfortable truth: the sound of Russian power was made by a Ukrainian whose identity Moscow is trying to erase.

For Ukrainian mothers, drone classes have replaced leisure, medical ID bracelets have become essential accessories, and a perpetually bleeding heart has become the price of loving more fiercely than ever before.

In the frontline city of Zaporizhzhia, seven meters of reinforced concrete shield school children from Russian missile strikes above.

The composer who made Schoenberg sound tame vanished at his peak in 1920. A century later, his lost piano concerto comes home to Ukraine as air raid sirens wail over Lviv.