Azov fighter Illia Samoylenko is barricaded in Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant. For him and his comrades, there is no surrender to the Russians: captivity means certain death. Together with his brothers-in-arms from the Azov Regiment...
Sniper vs sniper As they say in the army, the best remedy against a sniper is a 120mm mortar. For example, if there’s gunfire from a certain area, then four or five mortars will be more effective than a sniper duel. Of course, it...
Here we honour the Ukrainian soldiers – young and old – who laid down their lives in 2021 for the independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine. It is only thanks to the bravery and sacrifice of thousands of Ukrainian men...
Leaders of the Bashkir national movement have publicly called on Bashkirs not to take part in Russia’s war against Ukraine. In a statement issued by Ruslan Gabbasov, one of the leaders of Bashkort, an organization of the Bashkir...
Nadiya started thinking about military service way back in 2014, when her city, Bakhmut, was occupied by Russian units and pro-Russian forces. Pro-Russian rallies were held in Bakhmut in the spring of 2014, and propaganda leaflets...
Moldova Unlike most of Moldova, which was part of Romania in the interwar period, Transnistria was an autonomous Moldovan republic within the USSR stretching along the banks of the Dnister River. In 1990, the 14th Soviet Army Russian army...
Radio Donbas.Realii met with the Ukrainian soldiers to create these stark, but telling black-and-white portraits. An improvised photo studio with windows covered with sandbags. The story of one unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and yet,...
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...
