2 May, 2025
Today, we celebrate Lviv’s 769th anniversary!
As every first weekend of May, the Ukrainian city marks its birthday with a joyful public celebration, filled with music, dancing, and parades. A festive moment shared with family, dedicated this year to the Defenders of Ukraine — thanks to whom Lviv continues to live, thrive, and shine.
Twinned with Cannes, Lviv is not only an architectural gem — with over 2,500 historic monuments and a historic center listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site — but also a true hub of ideas, science, and culture in Ukraine.
First mentioned in 1256 and home to over 724,000 residents, Lviv is a deeply European city, shaped by Polish, Austrian, and German influences. It is the birthplace of Ivan Franko, the great Ukrainian writer, poet, and thinker, a leading ...
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25 April, 2025
On April 26, 1986, at 1:23 a.m., an explosion occurred in the reactor of the V.I. Lenin nuclear power plant, located just three kilometers from the city of Pripyat and 130 kilometers north of Kyiv, in present-day Ukraine. This disaster, caused by a series of human errors and technical failures, marked the beginning of the worst nuclear catastrophe in history.
Taking place during the Soviet era, the Chernobyl disaster exposed the flaws of an opaque and authoritarian system. Moscow tried to downplay the scale of the damage, lied to its own population, and concealed the truth from the rest of the world. The evacuation of Pripyat, a city of 49,000 built for plant workers, only occurred 36 hours after the explosion—by which time radiation had already begun to spread.
The radioactive cloud ...
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24 April, 2025
Last night again, Russian missile and drone strikes hit civilian areas across Ukraine: Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Poltava, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr… causing numerous deaths and injuries.
The head of Kyiv’s military administration responded to the attack by stating it represented “Russian peace in all its glory.”
In Kyiv, the Sviatoshyn district was severely hit. Two residential buildings were partially destroyed. The latest toll reports at least 9 dead and 70 injured — including 6 children.
This is not just a military war. It is a war against innocent civilians.
President Zelensky reminded the world that it has now been 44 days since Ukraine agreed to a full ceasefire, initiated by the United States. And for 44 days, Russia has continued to strike Ukraine, killing inno...
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