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Harold Koh: "In the fall of 2021, there was a chance that Putin would invade. We developed a theory for that possibility."

This is the first part of the final episode of Ukrainska Pravda's podcast 24 February Reconstructed, in which Ukrainska Pravda has tried to recreate the military events of the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion: how the fronts emerged and moved, who heroically stopped the Russians’ advance and how they did so, how Ukrainian cities and the country as a whole recovered from the first shock and prepared for defence.

"Right now, Putin sees that we are not committed to Ukraine winning. So he just has to hang on."

As of the morning of 9 October, 49 victims of the Russian army's missile attack on the village of Hroza near Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, had been identified. On 5 October 2023, Russian troops fired a missile on a café where local civilians had gathered to attend a wake for Andrii Kozyr, a fallen Ukrainian defender.

When Russia launched its war against Ukraine, people of different ages and with different faiths and worldviews took up arms. Many members of the LGBT community also joined the army. Ukrainska Pravda Zhyttia (Life) spoke with LGBT military personnel currently serving in the Ukrainian army to find out how they are treated there.

In spring 2022 Mariupol, home to half a million people, turned into the largest mass grave in 21st-century Europe. Some Mariupol residents managed to escape. Tens of thousands died as they lay trapped under rubble, their bodies mingling with debris later recycled by the Russians who came to "liberate" the city. Photographer Yevhen Sosnovskyi shares his memories of 65 days of Mariupol’s siege and occupation.

Andrii Zahorodniuk: "Every time we achieve significant success, it doesn't happen the way our American partners expected."

Ukrainska Pravda journalists visit Hroza as the villagers process the tragedy and prepare for funerals

The Memorial memory platform remembers those educators who are no longer with us. Their lives were taken by Russia, which started a full-scale war against Ukraine on 24 February 2022.

It is time to prepare for all scenarios in the United States, given that in Washington, they are publicly discussing reducing or even discontinuing aid to Ukraine...

Ukraine's future accession is currently treated as a fact in internal discussions within the EU. However, experts warn against excessive optimism.

Why Telegram's staggering growth remains a failure from a business perspective, and who the investors are that funded the app despite it only recently showing signs of generating revenue.

Katarína Mathernová: "Ukraine's image as a corrupt state was largely created by Russian propaganda. This is changing."

In this interview, Ashton-Cirillo told Ukrainska Pravda how Ukrainians have surprised the world, whether society in the US continues to support Ukraine, and how effective Russian propaganda is in the West now.

The average score for meeting the (accession) conditions is 8 out of 10. There is a couple of problems: the "PEP law" and parliamentary resistance...

Ukrainska Pravda spoke to the key figures in the events that unfolded around Tuzla in 2003: Colonel General Mykhailo Koval and Serhii Kunitsyn, who was the head of the government in Crimea at the time. Former president Leonid Kuchma answered our questions in writing. This article reconstructing the events of the hot autumn of 2003 sheds light on questions like: What provocations did Putin carry out, how did he try to hide, and how did he grope about for red lines? How did looking through his binoculars on the island of Tuzla help Kuchma realise Ukraine was not Russia? And why did the events of 2003 almost culminate in a war?

Benjamin Haddad: "In France, public opinion tends to be much less cynical and much less afraid of Russia than our elites sometimes are."

In this interview with Ukrainska Pravda, an officer of the Special Operations Forces who is the spokesman for the Central Security Service’s National Resistance Center tells us how a partisan IT worker helped the Armed Forces of Ukraine to make Chornobaivka famous around the world. How ordinary Ukrainians have thwarted the Russians' plans for an easy and total occupation of Ukraine.

How did Andrii 'Juice' Pilshchykov decide he wanted to become a military pilot? Why did he decide, some months before the full-scale invasion, not to renew his contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine? And why was Pilshchykov, one of the most famous people lobbying for Ukraine to be given F-16 fighter jets, not part of the first group of pilots to be trained to fly them? Liliia Averianova, Pilshchykov’s mother, answers these – and other – questions.

Lobodiuk was killed in close combat with Wagner Group mercenaries. He was just 22. The short story of his life is a story about how the war is claiming the lives of the nation's finest people.

Oksana Zolotaryova: "For us, Russian narratives about genocide are just common rhetoric. But for the international community, it was something new. They didn't quite understand what it was about."

Ukrainska Pravda retraced the chronology of the occupation of Kherson Oblast by talking to those who led the defence of the region, fought off the attack on the morning of 24 February and mined the bridges.

During an operation in the Black Sea, a special ops officer Conan was overboard. For 14 hours he was alone in the open sea, under the nose of the Russians. Ukrainska Pravda found Conan to learn about this incident firsthand.

"573 days ago, Russia launched a brutal, full-scale military assault on Ukraine. This is a war of annihilation, imperialism, conquest and atrocity..."

Russia's agent built his presentation on fake historical claims about Nazi Ukraine and accused President Zelenskyy personally of supporting Nazism.

Export self-restriction, to which Kyiv has reluctantly agreed, would be a violation of trade rules, and this violation would be on Ukraine's side.

What was it that allowed the Russians to capture Ukraine's south, occupy Kherson and open up the way to Mariupol in a matter of days? Ukrainska Pravda found and interviewed one of the main eyewitnesses of those events.

Ukrainska Pravda explains what rewilding is and why Ukraine is destined to be a world leader in this field.

Penny Pritzker: "My responsibilities are economically oriented... It involves meeting the reform needs that are necessary for Ukraine to achieve EU accession ."