This is how the woman, who fled the village of Shyrokyne in the Donbas five years ago and who now lives in the nearby city of Mariupol, describes the first day of the bombardment of her hometown in the film “Shyrokyne: Swan...
According to reports by local residents on social networks, February 21 was mostly a quiet day in the Donbas. A short morning “wake-up call” near Avdiivka and Marinka: 06:10 Donetsk Kirovskyi district: For at least 10 min, a...
Shyrokyne is a strategic village 8 kilometers to the east of Mariupol, a Ukrainian-held city of 450,000 on the coast of the Azov sea. Since August last year, the invaders have been probing Mariupol’s defenses. While a key port...
For the first time since February this year, when the village of Shyrokyne came under the control of Ukrainian forces after an advance by the Azov regiment, the main forces defending the village will no longer be the volunteer forces but...
An exclusive photo report from the frontline in Shyrokyne by the US photographer Noah Brooks, modernwarcollective.com who traveled to the frontline in Shyrokyne. Ukraine needs independent journalism. And we need you. Join...
In the night of 20 May 2015, Russian forces and their proxies in Ukraine launched an attack on Shyrokyne that lasted more than 3 hours, according to the Azov regiment situated in the South-Ukrainian city near the strategic...
Several thousand residents of the Ukraine-controlled Mariupol took to the streets on May 3 in protest against the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the strategic village of Shyrokyne, some 23 km far from the port city, according to 0629...
“Shyrokyne is a strategic high ground and position for firing weapons, and had been regularly utilized by the enemy for the purpose of artillery barrages against the civilian population of Mariupol. This is the location from which...
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...
