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Fighters of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the forests of Volyn. According to the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, the UPA was the only military force in World War II to define its strategic goal as the creation of an independent Ukrainian state; therefore, the soldiers were ready to fight against all countries that tried to prevent the formation of an independent nation. UPA organized and waged anti-German campaigns throughout the entire period of German occupation. Whole Ukrainian regions were freed from German occupation … where so-called ‘insurgent republics’ were created … UPA engaged in guerilla attacks against the Polish forces that were trying to restore the pre-war borders of Poland. The UPA fought against the Soviet Union as their primary opponent.

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How Communist propaganda made eastern Ukraine hate the national liberation movement

There are historical reasons that explain the non-recognition of the Ukrainian liberation movement by some regions of Ukraine.…

byChristine Chraibi

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Ukraine

How a former migrant worker pulled his Ukrainian village from doom to boom

The idea to grow strawberries and Chinese leaf appeared in 2007-2008 when people from Khorokhoryn went to Poland…

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International

New civilizational divide in Donbas

19-year-old Oles Yarema was on the barricades during the Revolution of Dignity, and he has been undergoing military…

byRadio Liberty

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What it’s like for a refugee from the east in Western Ukraine

They ask me whether it is difficult for a migrant from Donetsk to live in a village in…

byUkrainian media sources