In a crime that cannot fail to stir the conscience of the world, Russian military units since Vladimir Putin began his expanded war against Ukraine in February have seized and taken to Russia 5100 Ukrainian orphans and other Ukrainian...
“Mama, now I have to repay your love and give it to the world” On 7 April, Olha Shchyruk launched her charity to help Ukrainian children who lost their parents in Russia’s war against Ukraine. It happened just a few days...
On December 7, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UNGA) adopted the resolution “Problem of the militarization of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, as well as parts of the Black Sea and...
Oleksandr Kondratiuk. Saving Lives Author: Maksym Lyzhov “I’m going to war to save lives, not to fight,” volunteer soldier Oleksandr Kondratiuk reassuringly told his wife, Myroslava, as he prepared to leave for the...
The seventh ceremony of the Euromaidan SOS 2020 Volunteer Award took place online in Kyiv on November 30. It has already become a tradition to have a large number of nominees with incredible stories, making it difficult for the jury to...
The Russian occupiers in Crimea are increasingly targeting the wives and children of Crimean Tatar activists in an attempt to get at the parents via their family members, Zair Smedlyaev, one of their number says, yet another indication of...
I met Julia in 2016, when being a volunteer in the summer peace camp for Ukrainian kids who either came from the frontline areas of Donbas or had been internally displaced persons. In this camp, the participants not only relaxed but also...
Hundreds of students from the Russia-occupied territories of the Donbas traveled to unoccupied Ukraine in order to take Ukrainian nationwide standard exams. “Why don’t they just leave?” This is a question which people...
Since 2014, propaganda in the Russian-occupied territories of East Ukraine has been trying to ensure the obedience of the local population as hard as it can. Children and the young people are particularly targeted, not least as the...
School Number 3, a documentary film from Ukraine, won the Grand Prix of the Berlinale festival in the category 14plus. It tells the story of Donbas teenagers who experienced warfare between the Ukrainian army and Russian-backed...
In October 2022, nearly two 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...
