Let’s note right away: the hero of this story — Eyal Israeli — is a Jew, born and raised in Israel, an Israeli citizen, but married to a Ukrainian woman and, by February 2022, already living in Kherson for 16 years. That’s exactly where the invasion of the orcs caught him. And what follows is […]
Today, Uncle Hrysha — Hryhorii Mykolayovych Yanchenko — turns 78. Honored Citizen of Kherson, Knight of the Order “People’s Hero of Ukraine“, renowned Ukrainian volunteer… All true, but to hell with the official titles. For us, Hryhorii Yanchenko was and remains simply Uncle Hrysha — close, familiar, and irreplaceable. Never mind that he’s of very […]
His name was Vyacheslav Radionov. It was his actions that allowed Kyiv to defend itself against uncontrolled bombing by Russian aviation in the first days of the war — saving hundreds, possibly thousands of lives. On February 24, 2022, he gave his life to save virtually the entire aircraft fleet at the Vasylkiv airbase. He […]
Maria Berlinska is a Ukrainian public figure and volunteer of Jewish descent. She’s the founder and head of the Public Association “Aerial Reconnaissance Support Center,” which conducted drone operator training courses and imported UAVs. In 2017, she made it into Kyiv Post’s 2017 Ukraine’s Top 30 Under 30 ranking. When the Russian-Ukrainian war began in […]
Tigran Hovhannisyan and Mykyta Khanhanov are Ukrainian schoolchildren murdered by Russian occupiers during Berdyansk city’s stay under Russian occupation. On September 30, 2022, occupiers kidnapped Tigran, who lived with his grandmother in temporarily occupied Berdyansk. They held the boy in the Russian-occupied police station on Gretska Street, 3 and hid his detention location from his […]
Marusia Zvirobiy is a Ukrainian volunteer, soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and public figure. She took an active part in the Revolution of Dignity, joining the resistance against Yanukovych’s dictatorship right after the events of February 18, 2014, in Mariinsky Park and on Maidan. Marusia became a volunteer and launched the project “Help […]
Yuliia Paievska is a Ukrainian servicewoman, paramedic, volunteer, and military medic. Since 2018 — commander of the “Taira’s Angels” unit and evacuation department of the 61st military mobile hospital. Before 2014, “Taira” worked in art ceramics and book graphics. When the first clashes began during the Revolution of Dignity, she helped the wounded and thus […]
The short haircut, tattoos and dark-lined eyes of this woman involuntarily provoke you to fill in her biography in your head. She could quite possibly be a rock star. She could tell about concert tours, alcohol-drug parties and crazy plans. But on her shoulders is a military backpack with patches. On it, written in green […]
Olena Bilozerska is a Ukrainian journalist, blogger, and public figure. She’s been shaping independent media since early 2004. She started her career in small newspapers and magazines, learning the craft from the ground up. During 2004-2006, she took full editorial control and edited her own newspaper. This established her as an independent voice in Ukrainian […]
On October 30, 2017, Ukraine lost one of its brightest and most devoted daughters — Amina Okueva. Near the village of Hlevakha in Kyiv region, unknown killers shot up her car. Amina died from received wounds. Her husband, Adam Osmaev, was wounded but survived. Just months earlier, there had already been an assassination attempt on […]
