“We can handle it somehow, but what about the children?” Russian missile attack survivor says
For Serhiy, 14 January started as an ordinary morning. With his 16-year-old son, the man decided to visit…
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Victims of deadliest Russian missile attack still coping with grief
Russia’s attack on a residential building in Dnipro, in January, killed 46 people and destroyed dozens of flats,…
Anatomy of treason: how the Ukrainian Orthodox Church sold its soul to the “Russian world”
Church matters are heating up in Ukraine. After years of getting priority treatment from the government, the Ukrainian…
Russian literature is an accomplice in war against Ukraine – literary critic
Over the past thirty years, Ukrainian literature has embarked on a new path, turning its face away from…
Ukraine seeks to reclaim history by reframing Russia as “Moscovia”
On 22 October 1721, Moscow Tsar Peter I renamed the Moscow Tsardom into the Russian Empire. He chose…
Vive le résistance: how Kherson survived 255 days of Russian occupation
Kherson survived 255 days of Russian occupation. During the initial months of the war, the city’s residents gathered…
“I was lucky to survive in Bakhmut for sixteen days,” soldiers wounded in Bakhmut recall and name main problems
“I don’t understand how it is possible [for Russians] to crawl among corpses like that and still crawl…
Estonia offers sobering mythbusting about Russia’s war against Ukraine
The Estonian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has published a paper that intends to break common myths about Russia’s…
“We joke that if a leg is amputated below the knee it doesn’t count.” Soldiers get advanced prosthetics in Ukraine
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs…
Kremlin’s Trojan dove: how Russia uses “peace” to aid its war against Ukraine
Foreign military aid to Ukraine has been a crucial asset for Kyiv’s war effort. The Kremlin is well…
One year of Russia’s war made Ukrainians believe in themselves: poll
As of February 2023, Ukrainians’ confidence in victory stays at 95%, compared to 56% in January 2022. It…
Meet the vertep, a baroque Ukrainian Christmas tradition revived amid Russia’s war
Despite Russia's attempts to erase Ukrainian identity, a unique 18th-century Ukrainian Christmas tradition has been revived amid the war.
Media must stop pretending Russia is credible after ECHR’s ruling on occupied Donbas
On January 25, the European Court of Human Rights published an interim verdict on the so-called “great Donbas…
Take a look at the unique paintings Russia looted from the Kherson Art Museum
As Russia retreated from south Ukraine’s Kherson, the only regional center it managed to seize since the start…
Four towers of Kremlin propaganda: Russia, Ukraine, South, West
Although Russia started its unprovoked and unjustified aggression against Ukraine as early as late February 2014, when the…
Non-Russian avant-garde, or how Russia appropriates Ukrainian culture
One of the most well-known art phenomena from the ex-USSR, “russian[1] avant-garde” is perceived as a unique combination…
None of them wanted this life: the fury, silence, and “beauty” of war as recounted by Ukrainian soldiers
Winter is upon us, on the frontline, in the cities and steppes, in the villages and forests. It…
Ukraine helped build the Russian empire. Now it stands in the way of its resurrection – Serhii Plokhii
After the Russian Empire conquered Ukraine in the 18th century, the myth of a triune Rus emerged to…
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…
Russia had a secret plan to wipe Ukraine off the face of the Earth. This report tells why it failed
A report published by the London-based Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) defense and security think tank has shone…