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 —...
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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...
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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 ...
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On the occasion of the Easter holidays, Vladimir Putin announced a unilateral 30-hour ceasefire, set to begin on Saturday, April 19. President Volodymyr Zelensky immediately accepted the proposal and reiterated his country’s commitment to extending the truce for up to 30 days. But on the ground, reality quickly contradicted the Kremlin’s statements. From Saturday night into Sunday, Russian f...
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This Palm Sunday, Russia attacked Sumy with ballistic missiles. 32 civilians were killed, 99 injured. Among the dead: two children. Cluster munitions are believed to have been used — as in the attack on Kryvyi Rih — to cause the maximum number of casualties. People were hit in the street, in their cars, on public transport, in their homes. Lives destroyed in an instant, in the middle of ...
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The Russian aggressor killed at least six children today in an attack on the city of Kryvyi Rih. Another war crime to add to the long list of atrocities committed in Ukraine against civilians, and especially against children. The city of Kryvyi Rih, located in the Dnipropetrovsk region, was struck this afternoon by an extremely violent attack. A ballistic missile with cluster munitions, likely...
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Since 2022, Russia’s imperialist aggression has not only aimed to illegally annex Ukrainian territory. It has also targeted Ukraine’s identity, its language, and its culture. Russia has systematically bombed libraries, theaters, cinemas, museums, and opera houses. Many historical monuments and cultural buildings have been damaged or destroyed. In occupied territories, the Ukrainian language is...
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Three Years After Bucha: Russia Continues to Spread Terror and Destruction Today marks the third anniversary of the liberation of Bucha by Ukrainian forces. On March 31, 2022, Ukraine discovered the scale of the atrocities committed by the Russian army against civilians. The very next day, the world awoke to the horror through images and videos shared by international journalists: murdered civ...
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On Friday, March 28, Vladimir Putin called for the establishment of a “transitional administration” in Ukraine under the auspices of the UN, and for the organization of elections. An authoritarian regime attempting to impose its will on a democratic country it has been attacking militarily for over three years has absolutely no legitimacy to speak of peace. Putin’s Russia—where political oppo...
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On Thursday, March 27, a Summit on Peace and Security for Ukraine is being held in Paris, with the participation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron, and representatives from 30 allied countries. This meeting aims to strengthen international coordination and lay the groundwork for a common long-term strategy — military, economic, and humanitarian — in su...
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