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Evidence of widespread Russian war crimes can be found across Ukraine. Mass graves in Bucha, heartbreaking testimonies from towns like Irpin and Borodyanka, and blood-smeared walls beneath a once bust
Jun. 14, 2022
A little over three months ago, Denys Chaplinsky was an ordinary civilian working in construction materials sales. He had never even seen an operational tank or anti-tank missile. Today, Senior Privat
Jun. 13, 2022
Kalashnikovs and a grenade launcher hang casually beside a handbag. Boxes of armor plates and sniper rifle scopes are stacked high against each wall. This is the scene that greets me as I unlace my bo
Jun. 13, 2022
Away from dramatic drone images and stories of individual bravery and collective suffering, there is a slow, steady war of centimeters and azimuths taking place in southern Ukraine. After waiting nerv
Jun. 11, 2022
It’s an overnight train ride from Kyiv to Kharkiv, from the medieval capital of the modern Ukrainian state, which straddles the Dnipro River, dividing the country into east and west, to its second lar
Jun. 10, 2022
Artem Stepashyn, a veteran combat infantryman, is perfectly happy when the front is quiet. So is his battle buddy, a dog named Blackie. Stepashyn, 28, is a reservist from Kirovohrad Region who was rec
Jun. 10, 2022
Lieutenant Colonel Andrij Bohraniuk is a military man of many talents. He ensures the supply of fuel for hundreds of vehicles, food for 2,500 troops on the front line, and keeps track of shells and bu
Jun. 8, 2022
The great nephew of Gareth Jones, the Welsh investigative journalist, known throughout the world for being one of the few in his day to report on the 1932-33 man-made famine in Ukraine, the Holodomor,
Jun. 7, 2022
As military jobs go, Junior Sergeant Dmytro Ninchenko occupies a reasonably tolerable billet. He heads up a maintenance team in one of the better brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and the mechan
Jun. 7, 2022
It looks like a junkyard. Beat-up automobiles and piles of bald tires; puddles of water swirling with oil; and stray dogs wandering through weeds which push up through the cracked asphalt. Next to one
Jun. 6, 2022
As the video scans across a cold, dreary March afternoon, snow and mud can be seen covering the ground before the cellphone’s camera focuses on seven Ukrainian soldiers’ lifeless bodies. A Russian voi
Jun. 2, 2022
Interview with the Australian journalist Peter Shmigel, sanctions advocate and political advisor currently visiting Ukraine. Shmigel on the following, and more: Is the fuel embargo enough to stop Russ
Jun. 1, 2022
Life today in the Russian–occupied city of Kherson in southern Ukraine resembles the regime described in George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”. The only difference is that it is happening in reality
May. 31, 2022
Movies
My conversation with Andrij Parekh, Emmy Award winner of the highly acclaimed American TV series “Succession” took place a few weeks before the war started on Feb. 24. Parekh is of Ukrainian and Indi
May. 30, 2022
It’s now less than half a year until the U.S. midterm elections. Taking place at the half-way point of the president’s four-year term, when all 435 Members of Congress and 34 of the 100 Senators’ seat
May. 29, 2022
Ukraine is winning the information war. Russians, still dangerous, are going underground. Alex Zamkovoi is a journalist and fact-checker. In 2021, he joined Stopfake.org, where he researches the sprea
May. 27, 2022
Evidence of widespread Russian war crimes can be found across Ukraine. Mass graves in Bucha, heartbreaking testimonies from towns like Irpin and Borodyanka, and blood-smeared walls beneath a once bust
Jun. 14, 2022
A little over three months ago, Denys Chaplinsky was an ordinary civilian working in construction materials sales. He had never even seen an operational tank or anti-tank missile. Today, Senior Privat
Jun. 13, 2022
Kalashnikovs and a grenade launcher hang casually beside a handbag. Boxes of armor plates and sniper rifle scopes are stacked high against each wall. This is the scene that greets me as I unlace my bo
Jun. 13, 2022
Away from dramatic drone images and stories of individual bravery and collective suffering, there is a slow, steady war of centimeters and azimuths taking place in southern Ukraine. After waiting nerv
Jun. 11, 2022
It’s an overnight train ride from Kyiv to Kharkiv, from the medieval capital of the modern Ukrainian state, which straddles the Dnipro River, dividing the country into east and west, to its second lar
Jun. 10, 2022
Artem Stepashyn, a veteran combat infantryman, is perfectly happy when the front is quiet. So is his battle buddy, a dog named Blackie. Stepashyn, 28, is a reservist from Kirovohrad Region who was rec
Jun. 10, 2022
Lieutenant Colonel Andrij Bohraniuk is a military man of many talents. He ensures the supply of fuel for hundreds of vehicles, food for 2,500 troops on the front line, and keeps track of shells and bu
Jun. 8, 2022
The great nephew of Gareth Jones, the Welsh investigative journalist, known throughout the world for being one of the few in his day to report on the 1932-33 man-made famine in Ukraine, the Holodomor,
Jun. 7, 2022
As military jobs go, Junior Sergeant Dmytro Ninchenko occupies a reasonably tolerable billet. He heads up a maintenance team in one of the better brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and the mechan
Jun. 7, 2022
It looks like a junkyard. Beat-up automobiles and piles of bald tires; puddles of water swirling with oil; and stray dogs wandering through weeds which push up through the cracked asphalt. Next to one
Jun. 6, 2022
As the video scans across a cold, dreary March afternoon, snow and mud can be seen covering the ground before the cellphone’s camera focuses on seven Ukrainian soldiers’ lifeless bodies. A Russian voi
Jun. 2, 2022
Interview with the Australian journalist Peter Shmigel, sanctions advocate and political advisor currently visiting Ukraine. Shmigel on the following, and more: Is the fuel embargo enough to stop Russ
Jun. 1, 2022
Life today in the Russian–occupied city of Kherson in southern Ukraine resembles the regime described in George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”. The only difference is that it is happening in reality
May. 31, 2022
Movies
My conversation with Andrij Parekh, Emmy Award winner of the highly acclaimed American TV series “Succession” took place a few weeks before the war started on Feb. 24. Parekh is of Ukrainian and Indi
May. 30, 2022
It’s now less than half a year until the U.S. midterm elections. Taking place at the half-way point of the president’s four-year term, when all 435 Members of Congress and 34 of the 100 Senators’ seat
May. 29, 2022
Ukraine is winning the information war. Russians, still dangerous, are going underground. Alex Zamkovoi is a journalist and fact-checker. In 2021, he joined Stopfake.org, where he researches the sprea
May. 27, 2022
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