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History of Ukraine

Zelenskyy: In Kyiv, where Lenin fell, Mazepa will stand—a Cossack hetman Russia still curses

A bust of Ivan Mazepa went up at Kyiv's main monastery, and the president wants a full monument on the boulevard where a Soviet statue came down in 2013.

byYuri Zoria

The entire population of Crimean Tatars who survived the German occupation of the peninsula (up to 200 000) were deported by Stalin just in two days to remote rural locations in Central Asia and Siberia. A year later, after the end of the WW2, when the Soviet Army was demobilizing, Crimean Tatar soldiers were sent into exile too.

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Take food for three days. Then you’ll come back. The Crimean Tatars never did

The people who finally came home in the 1990s and their descendants are Russia's political prisoners again.

byAlexander Moisseenko

Circassians in Turkey commemorating an anniversary of the Russian genocide of their people in 1864 (Image: worldbulletin.net)

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine is striking Tuapse — Russian refinery town founded by general who engineered Caucasus genocide

Three strikes in two weeks have left the Black Sea port burning, evacuating, and coated in oil rain. The land it sits on was the staging ground for a genocide, one Russia still denies and most of the West has never heard of.

byAlexander Moisseenko

2 minute read

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Ukraine destroys Russia’s newest reconnaissance drone named after Kyivan Rus ruler (VIDEO)

The operation shows that, regardless of name or design, Russian unmanned aerial assets remain highly vulnerable to precision countermeasures of Ukrainian forces.

byOlena Mukhina

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International

Learn to be fearless and brave from Ukraine, German historian tells Europe

It would perhaps also mean learning how to triumph, Karl Schlögel tells at country's top literary prize

byAlya Shandra

2 minute read

Latest news

84 years after Babyn Yar executions, Ukraine warns Europe: ignoring terror makes it stronger

Nazi Babyn Yar massacte carved horror into Kyiv. Today, Russian strikes test the same lesson.

byOlena Mukhina

11 minute read

Analysis

How Russia’s WWII propaganda machine turned Victory Day into a death cult

Putin transformed history into a crusade requiring new enemies—Ukraine became the target.

byYurii Bohdanov

7 minute read

Opinion

Trump’s “60 million Russian deaths”: the dangerous myth behind his Ukraine peace plan

Behind that inflated death toll lies a carefully crafted Soviet myth that made Russia look like the sole victor over Hitler. Today, that same myth threatens Ukraine's survival.

byYuriy Lukanov

2 minute read

Latest news

Ukraine supports exhumations for Volyn tragedy victims, says Polish foreign minister

Ukraine and Poland agree to practical mechanisms for exhumation efforts, marking progress in addressing sensitive historical issues.

byOlena Mukhina

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History of Ukraine

Scholars unite to answer humanity’s “hard questions” through a 3-million-word global history of Ukraine

An international team of 90 reserarches seeks to answer when humans first crossed into Europe and what truly causes wars, using Ukraine's rich past as a unique lens.

byAlya Shandra

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Analysis

Kursk Oblast: Where Russia’s “historical lands” argument falls apart

As Ukrainian troops advance into Kursk Oblast, they encounter an unexpected ally: history itself. Ironically, Russia's justification for invading Ukraine crumbles on its own soil.

byBohdan Ben

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From Anschluss to Invasion: Putin follows Hitler’s playbook

Despite the lessons of appeasing Hitler before WWII, world leaders have again failed to deter authoritarian aggression from Russia

byWinfried Schneider-Deters

3 minute read

Latest news

Ukrainian history goes global: British Museum hosts presentation of new research program

World-class scholars have announced a three-year research project to study and teach the history of Ukraine from ancient times to the present day.

bySerge Havrylets

16 minute read

Russia’s child brainwashing handbook: victim from 78 years ago speaks out

Echoing crimes of today, in 1945, daughter of Ukrainian Insurgent Army leader was forcibly sent away, given fabricated Russian identity, and raised to hail the Communists

byOrysia Hrudka

4 minute read

Latest news

Ukraine commemorates Sandarmokh’s victims – a thousand intellectuals slain by Soviet authorities

Thousand of Ukrainian writers, artists, and scientists were shot in northern Russia 86 years ago

byOrysia Hrudka

11 minute read

Analysis

The real reason Russia calls everyone Nazis

Russia is branding all opponents of its fascism as fascists and Nazis, but why? Look to the Soviet deformation of history, which conjured the "eternal war of the West against Russia"

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

6 minute read

Essay: Ukraine reclaims its place in Europe in the wake of Russia’s failing invasion

1. History is objective in that it is a series of significant and insignificant events. It is initially…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Russian military burn Ukrainian books in boiler houses on occupied territories

Cases of mass burning of Ukrainian books by the Russian occupiers were recorded in the city of Rovenky,…

byOrysia Hrudka

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Unholy trinity, explained: How Kyiv priests created Russia’s imperial “Triune Rus” ideology

Putin is willing to destroy anything that contradicts his interpretation of history. It includes the denial of Ukraine's…

byBohdan Ben

1 minute read

Latest news

Church survived two world wars but Russian shelling destroyed it in 2022

The church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Kiselyvka, Mykolayiv Oblast, survived two world wars…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

History

Zelenskyy: In Kyiv, where Lenin fell, Mazepa will stand—a Cossack hetman Russia still curses

Take food for three days. Then you’ll come back. The Crimean Tatars never did

Ukraine is striking Tuapse — Russian refinery town founded by general who engineered Caucasus genocide

Ukraine destroys Russia’s newest reconnaissance drone named after Kyivan Rus ruler (VIDEO)

Learn to be fearless and brave from Ukraine, German historian tells Europe

84 years after Babyn Yar executions, Ukraine warns Europe: ignoring terror makes it stronger

How Russia’s WWII propaganda machine turned Victory Day into a death cult

Trump’s “60 million Russian deaths”: the dangerous myth behind his Ukraine peace plan

Ukraine supports exhumations for Volyn tragedy victims, says Polish foreign minister

Scholars unite to answer humanity’s “hard questions” through a 3-million-word global history of Ukraine

Kursk Oblast: Where Russia’s “historical lands” argument falls apart

From Anschluss to Invasion: Putin follows Hitler’s playbook

Ukrainian history goes global: British Museum hosts presentation of new research program

Russia’s child brainwashing handbook: victim from 78 years ago speaks out

Ukraine commemorates Sandarmokh’s victims – a thousand intellectuals slain by Soviet authorities

The real reason Russia calls everyone Nazis

Essay: Ukraine reclaims its place in Europe in the wake of Russia’s failing invasion

Russian military burn Ukrainian books in boiler houses on occupied territories

Unholy trinity, explained: How Kyiv priests created Russia’s imperial “Triune Rus” ideology

Church survived two world wars but Russian shelling destroyed it in 2022

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