War
During two weeks in September 2023, lecturers from the UK were providing training to the Armed Forces of Ukraine on managing combat stress, panic attacks and anxiety on the frontline. Richard Kemp, a British Army reservist, was one of the...
War
“My conscience is clear. And hands? I will scrub them off.” Reportage on how the 93rd Mechanized Brigade Kholodnyi Yar fights Text and images by Olena Maksymenko
The history of the war
Ukrainian travelers in the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries were driven by a desire to explore the world, and they played an important role in the nation's cultural, scientific, and social life. The world travelers visited remote corners of the...
Ukraine Through The Eyes of Others
Our next episode of Ukraine Through the Eyes of Others features Andreas Umland, a political scientist specializing in contemporary Russian and Ukrainian history, regime transitions, and a wide range of topics in post-Soviet studies. His extensive body of work spans...
War
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainians resisted heroically, and Russia's plan to quickly seize the entire country failed. Its focus then shifted to specific cities in the east and south of Ukraine, where it...
War
Individual rule backed by fear and terror. Brutal reprisals against opponents, mainly for far-fetched reasons. Senseless wars against neighbouring states, often ending in defeats. A sincere belief in one's own divine nature, and therefore the justice of one's bloody actions....
