The Polish elections have become a kind of mirror, meant to show what the political model of Central Europe will be and how it will affect our prospects.
Conversation with Ukrainian writer Sofiia Andrukhovych about how the war is changing the social role of the writer and drawing Europe’s attention to Ukrainian literature; how literature can overcome Europeans' war fatigue and prevent the war from becoming normalized.
19 October 2023, 17:11 — Sofiia Andrukhovych, Tetiana Pushnova
This article recounts how Ukrainian troops, far outnumbered by the Russian occupation forces, managed to hold the cities of Chernihiv and Kharkiv and the Donbas front, yet the Ukrainian defences in southern Ukraine crumbled under what appeared to be very similar circumstances.
19 October 2023, 06:30 — Roman Romaniuk, Fedir Popadiuk
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.
16 October 2023, 06:30 — Roman Romaniuk, Fedir Popadiuk
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.
12 October 2023, 01:06 — Olia Horodetska, Inna Kubay
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.
11 October 2023, 18:16 — Ukrainska Pravda, Anastasiia Poia
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.
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...
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.
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.
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?
28 September 2023, 06:30 — Mykhailo Krygel, Rustem Khalilov
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.
22 September 2023, 06:30 — Rustem Khalilov, Rustem Khalilov
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.
21 September 2023, 19:15 — Ukrainska Pravda, Yaroslav Halas
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.
