Russia’s crimes

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...

How the Russian Empire and the USSR affected winemaking and horticulture in Ukraine

For centuries, homegrown plants and fruits sustained generations of Ukrainians. The cultivation of different varieties of grapes led to the development of winemaking in the region, with products that had the potential to spread far beyond the country’s borders. However,...

Types of international crimes and those committed by Russia in Ukraine

Evil unpunished only grows stronger. For many years, the international community failed to adequately address Russia’s aggression against Moldova, Chechnya, and Georgia (Sakartvelo), its occupation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, and the Kremlin’s support for terrorist groups in the east of...

How Russia destroys the identity of Ukrainian children in the occupied territories

How is Russia implementing cognitive occupation? What challenges will Ukraine face after the liberation of the occupied territories, and why do we need to make sure that children who had to grow up under occupation do not turn against Ukrainians...

To escape from occupied Oleshky after the attack on Kakhovka dam

This is a report about two people who managed to flee the occupied town of Oleshky amidst the chaos following the Russian explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. They got lucky, if one could even call it that. Residents...

When a day lasts a year. Reflecting on the Bucha massacre two years later

Russian soldiers entered Bucha, a city just outside of Kyiv, in the first days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. One of the first viral photos from the war was of destroyed Russian equipment on Vokzalna Street. But a week...

How Russia’s war against Ukraine affects animals and the environment

How does Russia’s war in Ukraine endanger the environment and what can we do to restore it? Let’s find out from Ostap Reshetylo, associate professor at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and project manager at World Wildlife Fund...

How war affects the Black Sea and marine life

In 1996, the six coastal states of the Black Sea signed the Strategic Action Plan for the Environmental Protection and Rehabilitation of the Black Sea. This plan was necessitated by the alarming destruction of the Black Sea’s unique natural complexes...

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