The court concluded that the Ukrainian military and Markiv deliberately wanted to kill “inconvenient” journalists and that it was a unilateral attack, a crime against the freedom of speech. This is based on the account of...
Backround: “Yarosh’s business card” In the spring of 2014, Ukraine was going through tumultuous times, daily events were developing quickly and unexpectedly. In April 2014, Russian hybrid forces released information...
The city of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast was among the first spots where Donbas was occupied by Russian-backed forces. Fighting in the city began in the middle of April 2014. On 5 July of the same year, however, the city was...
“It’s very important…. and it’s very painful. These were our fathers and grandfathers. We should honour their memory and accompany them on this day. They defended us so that we could live.” says resident...
SLOVIANSK Welcome to Sloviansk, Ania says, greeting us warmly before adding, You will not like it. I immediately take that as a personal challenge. But I get it. It’s gray. There are a lot of broken things. Many stray dogs. Our hotel...
According to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, the academic year in the liberated cities of the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts began as scheduled, on September 1....
Kyiv theater director Pavel Yurov and artist Denis Grishchuk spent 70 days as hostages of the separatists led by Igor Girkin (aka Strelkov) in Sloviansk. Pavel was born in Antratsyt (Luhansk Oblast) and Denis in Donetsk. On April 25 they...
June 2, 2014 Pastor Serhiy Demydovych, Interviewed by Tetiana Rudenka Serhiy Demyovych, pastor of the Good News Church in Sloviansk on the situation in his city, reconsidering his own Christian position, challenges to the evangelical...
Forces of the Ukrainian Army interrogate a captured separatist that discloses shocking details of the Kremlin-backed militants’ treatment of the local population of the Donbas region of Ukraine. In particular, the separatist tells...
In October 2022, a few weeks before the Ukrainian Army liberated Kherson, Russian soldiers parked several school buses next to the Regional Art Museum named after Oleksii Shovkunenko. Over four days, the invaders loaded their vehicles with...