In early March 2022, Russian troops passed the northern city of Chernihiv, approaching Ukraine’s capital, where heavy fighting took place. Russians did not enter Chernihiv itself yet almost encircled the city. City dwellers who did...
Bobsledder Dmytro Tkachenko volunteered to feed and rebuild Chernihiv “I understood that there would be a war,” bobsledder Dmytro Tkachenko, 41, says. “It’s just that we didn’t want to believe until the...
Although many maps from the first days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine show that Russians allegedly occupied the entire Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts (regions), local volunteers drove undetected 200 kilometers between Kyiv and Chernihiv...
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...
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...
On 24 February 2022, Russian troops invaded Ukraine from three directions, and immediately set out to capture several major cities in central and eastern Ukraine, namely Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv. Thus, as of the first hours of the...
First stereotype: Ukrainians are very poor Some Europeans viewed Ukraine as extremely poor. Many Ukrainian refugees were surprised to learn that. “They perceived us almost like we are cave people who do not know and have not seen...
