Aidar soldier dies in U.S. after 15-month fight for life
Roman Lutsiuk from Lutsk (western Ukraine), Maidan activist and Aidar volunteer, passed away while he was being cared…
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Young Anatoliy, one of several Ukrainian soldiers KIA in first month of 2016
There are no weekends or holidays in war. Demining expert from Delyatyn, Anatoliy Harkavenko (aka Moryachok) was killed…
Orest Petryshyn’s story of 9-months in captivity
Orest Petryshyn was held captive for nine months. He recently returned home to Lviv where family and friends…
An Italian Maidan Activist: Now an author and filmmaker combating Kremlin propaganda
(This is a translation of the article Італійський активіст Майдану бореться з пропагандою Кремля: написав книжку і взявся за…
Mykhailo Myhovych, photographer: I’d like to see Ukrainians show respect to our soldiers and not to unscrupulous money-spinners
After spending two years in the war zone, photographer Mykhailo Myhovych has created a series of artistic photos…
How beading replaced engines for Ukrainian tank mechanic
Kyiv before the holidays looks like a Christmas ornament: festive lights on every corner, hand-made souvenirs in markets…
“Mom, I’m alive”: mother receives word from son declared KIA
The incredible story of the mother of an ATO soldier who received official notice of her son’s death,…
Pastor and sniper: how to kill and not sin
In the beginning of September 2014, just after the Ilovaisk tragedy (outside of a city near Donetsk, where…
Soldier Ruslan Filipsonov: It’s most offensive when people ask me “Whatever were you fighting for?”
Lviv. Ukrainian fighter Ruslan Filipsonov saved the lives of seven comrades and was seriously wounded. 25-year-old Ruslan, serviceman in…
A Ukrainian military chaplain’s candid reflections on Christmas
There was a time when I only knew such things by reading about them in books, or watching…
Ruslan Yurchyshyn, National Guard sniper is no more…
This time the war has claimed the life of Ruslan Yurchyshyn, a young ATO soldier from Ivano-Frankivsk (western…
Sashko Koval: The first day of the new year was his last …
18-year-old Sasha Koval was killed on January 1, 2016. He was a true patriot, brave and caring, a…
Aidar fighter Nazar Holyuk killed on eastern front on January 1, 2016
As Ukrainians and the world celebrate the New Year and television channels broadcasts soothing news from the front…
Bandera cats at war in the Donbas (photo report)
ATO soldiers love their battalion cats, share food with them, give them shelter and even dedicate poems to…
Svitlana from Cherkasy enrolls in army after her son’s death in Donetsk Airport
Svitlana Chorna-Tereshchenko from Cherkasy lost her son a year ago. When Andriy was killed in the battle for…
How pizza made by Ukraine’s war veterans is taking over Kyiv
A paratrooper is a waiter, a sniper is a pizza maker, and soldiers eat for free in a…
Maksym Ilchenko: 25 years old, severely wounded, but happy!
Maksym Ilchenko was shot in the face during a combat mission and has undergone eight major operations. However,…
ATO fighter’s last FB post: “War doesn’t exist for you, but you’re still tired of it all!”
ATO fighter’s last FB post: “War doesn’t exist for you, but you’re still tired of it all!” Oleksiy…
Euromaidan commander Oleksandr Abaiev: I got married on August 1 and was in ATO zone on August 5
Oleksandr Abaiev, a 26-year-old from Khmelnitsky was shot three times during the violent clashes on Maidan in February…
Soldier Vadym Borsyak: “There are no principles or ethics in the DNR”
Vadym Borsyak, a soldier of the 74th Reconnaissance Battalion defended Donetsk Airport in October 2014. We tracked him…