War

5 pillars of Russian imperial nationalism

The war against Ukraine was not initiated by Putin personally. The war was started and is being waged by Russian imperial nationalism, with Putin and his accomplices as the figureheads.

Russia uses sports as a tool of aggression. How is the world reacting?

After the Russians, with the assistance of the Belarusians, launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, their athletes were suspended from participating in international tournaments. But in early 2023, despite the ongoing war, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus...

Alexei Navalny and Ukraine: how the Russian “opposition” leader’s team sees the end of the war

How oppositional is Alexei Navalny’s team? Calling themselves the opposition, this Russian group talks about fundamental democratic beliefs and the end of Russia’s war against Ukraine. But a closer look at their statements shows that this is far from their...

Testimony of a woman who survived two wars in Izium

Along with the joyful news about the de-occupation of Izium, Slobozhanshchyna, in September 2022, the whole world became aware of the following heinous crimes committed by the Russians: dozens of tortured people and mass burials, from which 447 bodies were...

How the IAEA does (not) work: a history of failures of the “peaceful atom” defenders

For over a year, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, has been occupied by Russian forces. Humanity has been on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe for over a year. This is the first...

Powerful Quotes from the Heavenly Regiment of Ukraine

The Russian Federation’s current war against Ukraine began with the shootings on the Maidan during the Revolution of Dignity. At that time, the Heavenly Hundred appeared in Ukraine — these people who were killed during the Maidan Revolution. The names...

Ukraine Through the Eyes of John Sweeney

Our next episode of Ukraine Through the Eyes of Others features John Sweeney, a British writer, reporter, and formerly investigative journalist at BBC, currently covering the Russian war against Ukraine. In this interview, he shares his thoughts on Russia’s systematic...

A century of deportations. How Russia has been destroying nations

Russian occupiers commit a terrible crime by deporting Ukrainians. Since the beginning of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian authorities and their accomplices (in particular, local collaborators) have been organizing mass deportations by forcibly transferring Ukrainians deep into the...

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