Ukrainian police have detained a group of offenders who cut off graffiti by British artist Banksy from a wall in Hostomel, a Kyiv suburb devastated by the Russian invasion, chief of the Kyiv Oblast police Andriy Nebytov reported on 2...
After the liberation of Izium from Russian occupation on 10 September in Ukraine’s offensive in northeastern Ukraine, a mass burial site was found. 447 bodies, including 22 soldiers, have been exhumed. Most of the exhumed...
The police first reported about the group on 30 January, but gave more details at a briefing on 31 January, saying that a number of mass riots were planned in the capital city of Kyiv, and in Sumy, Chernihiv, and Poltava oblasts. The first...
On 15 July, a historic vote for the resignation of the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov took place in parliament. Avakov headed the Ministry for seven years under three presidents — interim president Oleksandr Turchynov,...
Unprecedented brutality against peaceful protesters opposing the falsified presidential election giving dictator Lukashenka an implausible victory are ongoing in Belarus for the fifth day in a row. Mass protests across the country started...
Contents ACT I - LOOKING BACK: ELECTION CAMPAIGNS AND POWER DUALISMAvakov's political optionsA Conflict of Power BlocksAvakov-style Election CampaignTest Run for LoyaltyA Necessary Evil?Persistence through Neo-PatrimonialismAvakov's Goals,...
The chronic lawlessness within police forces has served as a trigger for society’s outrage and led to civil protests in Ukraine many times before. One of the most-known took place in the village of Vradiivka, Mykolayiv Oblast, in...
Have you ever heard the name of Kateryna Handizuk? If stories from Ukraine are getting to your news feeds, probably you did, as during the last year, the assassination of the Kherson activist and city official became a symbol of the...
It’s 31 May, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi city, Kyiv Oblast, the eve of International Children’s Day. Some police officers find Friday evening entertainment in shooting bottles on the street. They are drunk. Five-year-old Kyrylo...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
