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Joseph Zissels on Ukrainian Jews and collective identity

“My whole life has been a road to prison”, recalls Joseph Zissels, a Ukrainian public figure and human rights activist of Jewish origin. In the 1970s, he was an active participant in the Ukrainian dissident movement and joined the Ukrainian...

How Ukraine’s civil society battles Russia in the information war

In today’s world, information warfare is a core element of hybrid warfare — a strategy that blends traditional military operations with non-military tactics such as information operations, cyberattacks, economic pressure, political destabilisation, and psychological warfare. Since at least 2014, Russia...

Decolonisation: Taras Kuzio on decolonising perceptions of Ukraine in Western academia

In the seventh episode of the Decolonisation podcast, Taras Kuzio, a renowned British-Canadian political scientist and expert on Ukraine, delves into the challenges of shifting perceptions of Ukraine in Western academia.

“My grandma was an Ostarbeiter”: an interview with writer Lisa Weeda

In this interview with Dutch author Lisa Weeda, she shares the story of her family and her connection to Ukraine. The interview was conducted by Local History magazine and translated by the Ukraїner International team.

Ukrainian prisoners of Auschwitz

During the Second World War, many Ukrainians were among the prisoners held in Nazi concentration camps.

How dictatorships tried to silence Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe

Trump’s funding cuts put the future of Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe and Voice of America — and, by extension, the future of free press — at risk. Launched 70 years ago to break through totalitarian censorship, Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe...

Myanmar’s hidden war: Russia’s other battlefield

Since 2021, Myanmar has been plunged into a brutal civil war. It began when the military overthrew the democratically elected government, igniting mass protests across the country. The peaceful resistance was quickly met with violent crackdowns — bullets against banners....

Genocide of the Crimean Tatars: an ongoing crime

In collaboration with the “Where are our people?” project by Ukrainian non-profit PR Army, the Ukraїner team is investigating Russia’s crimes against Crimean Tatars throughout history and their enduring impacts today. In this article, we provide a...

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