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22/09 – 27/09. How Ukraine is resisting Russian occupation. Photo digest №36

On the 23rd of September, the Russia-appointed administrations in the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories started sham referenda trying to create a legal precedent for joining Ukrainian territories to Russia. On the night of the 22nd of September, Mykolaiv was subjected...

16/09 – 21/09. How Ukraine is resisting Russian occupation. Photo digest №35

On the 15th of September, a mass grave was discovered on the outskirts of the city of Izium in Slobozhanshchyna, which was recently liberated from the Russian occupiers. The exhumation of the bodies has begun, and investigative actions are ongoing...

10/09 – 15/09. How Ukraine is resisting Russian occupation. Photo digest №34

The Ukrainian military continues a powerful counteroffensive in the east and south of the country. Since the beginning of September, the defense forces have freed about 2,000 square meters of the territory of Ukraine from the Russian occupation. On September...

04/09 – 09/09. How Ukraine is resisting Russian occupation. Photo digest №33

On the night of the 4th of September, Russian military shelled Mykolaiv with S-300 missiles, civil infrastructure objects were damaged. In one month, almost 10,000 people left Donechchyna as part of a mandatory evacuation (as of 26.08.22). The European Commission...

29/08 – 03/09. How Ukraine is resisting Russian occupation. Photo digest №32

The Ukrainian military reports on the breakthrough of the first line of defense of the Russian forces in the south of the country. The IAEA mission departed from Kyiv to the occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP to assess danger and establish a...

Fear and loathing in the USSR: what life was like during the so-called golden age of Soviet stability

The Soviet Union, the largest totalitarian neo-empire in the world, collapsed more than three decades ago. However, a generation of older people who lived in the USSR still recall (or re-imagine) it as a haven of solace and peace. It’s...

The extraordinary daily life of Ukrainian rescue workers

Staff of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) selflessly rescue people from fire, water, and any other emergency. During the full-scale war they are, without any exaggeration, true heroes who work daily at the limits of human capabilities.

Rape as a weapon of Russia in Ukraine

“Whether you like it or not, endure it, my beauty” – Putin used a phrase that has sexual assault connotation while talking about Ukraine during a press conference at the beginning of February 2022. The veiled threat of coercion and...