Happy Valentine’s Day from Dnipro. Well dressed lovers packed the restaurants and cafes tonight, scores of men rushed the flower vendors just before curfew. Love and romance must go on, air raid sirens blaring be damned.

russan war crimes: 5 russian officer indicted for the crime of ecocide

The year 2024 delivers humanity a new take on bomb shelter chic: children’s bomb shelters.

February 11, 2023

YOUR MONEY AT WORK IN UKRAINE. Sunflower F.U.N.D. donors deliver while our Congress tries to find its own ass(ets).

February 10, 2024

A pile of destroyed civilian cars in which entire families were annihilated as they fled their hometown. Some of the wrecks have candles in memory of those who died, some have flowers and ribbons. Some have teddy bears for the children passengers.

January 18, 2024

In the first days of the full invasion, the school building was severely damaged by artillery, much like every building in sight, including an elementary school that was completely destroyed.

January 18, 2024

The ruins of Irpin’s House of Culture stand quietly on a snowy square. Before the war, this was Irpin’s art, theater and music venue. Artillery and tank rounds silenced the music.

The silence is not unsettling, it is deceptively peaceful. Thus far broken only once by one aerial alarm.

January 15, 2024

A tentative smile and a moderate effort at Ukrainian will eventually get you the right stamp and a nod.

if you only see one documentary about the russian invasion of Ukraine, see this one