Russia continues telling its citizens that it came to liberate Ukraine from the yoke of “Nazis,” yet the regime they establish in the Ukrainian territories they occupied could dwarf the likes of Nazi Germany in WWII....
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...
Currently, Kherson Oblast, which was occupied by Russian troops in the first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion, is formally ruled by a handful of local collaborators. They exist only to create a media illusion of free will of the...
Shortly before midnight on 27 April, a series of explosions rocked central Kherson, a south-Ukrainian regional capital occupied by the Russian troops since the first days of Russia’s all-out invasion. Local journalists found evidence...
“Give us your property or you will end up beheaded” Russian occupying forces continue to illegally appropriate the estate of Ukrainian private farms – confiscating products stored in enterprise warehouses and forcing...
In occupied Kherson, the Kremlin plans to hold a pseudo-referendum to declare the region the so-called “Kherson People’s Republic.” Scheduled for April 27, a workday, it is expected to show “a pre-approved...
Ukrainian reports on the Russian intentions to declare the so-called “Kherson people’s republic” circulate from the first weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. On 16 April, The Ukrainian...
In Kherson Oblast, Russians are now trying to assign their representatives to head the municipalities, replace the Ukrainian hryvnia currency with the Russian rouble, enforce the Russian language in education, and finally place their own...
Primarily, the efforts included fortifying the security and defense capabilities of local water-supply infrastructure objects (such as the North Crimean Canal). In addition, the authorities implemented multiple counter-sabotage and...
The world practice of resignations of the officials involved in big scandals seems like a utopia in Ukrainian realia as things in the country tend to take the opposite way. Recently, the movement “Who ordered Katia Handziuk?”...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...