Category: People

Bread has always held a special place in Ukrainian life — on the table, in everyday values, and in historical memory. During the Holodomor famines, people survived on “bread” made from dried and ground acorns, chaff, and even tree bark. In today’s war with Russia, bread has again become a way to endure. In occupied…

It started with just one van… In the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine, British citizen Richard Astle, who was born in Sheffield and lives in Peterborough, was overcome by anger, frustration, and a deep sense of injustice. Determined not to stand by, he contacted his friends — and within weeks, Richard and…

Buddhist gods and lighthouses around the world — what do they have in common? Mariia Kamenska is a Ukrainian who has been living in Poland for ten years. She is a creative individual who draws, writes, photographs and creates thread paintings. Mariia also loves to travel, and before the war, she maintained a blog about…

Revolutionary events in Georgia have already been compared multiple times to the Ukrainian events during the Revolution of Dignity. The key difference is that all of Georgia has a smaller population than Kyiv and its surrounding region. Currently, the people of Georgia continue to fight against election falsifications and the rollback of European integration by…

Robots instead of soldiers? Wang Jixian, a Chinese-born man now living in Ukraine, believes it is possible to reduce the need for human presence on the battlefield. Using his expertise in artificial intelligence, Wang is developing innovative projects entirely on his own. “I want to help save the lives of Ukraine’s defenders,” says Wang, who…

Oleksandra Dubovytska is a native resident of Kyiv, who lived in a huge city before the full-scale invasion. However, February 2022 changed everything: she moved to a small town in Pokuttia(an ethnographical area in the western part of Ukraine – ed.) to get a quality education for her daughter. Now the woman is working on a social…

At the onset of the war in Ukraine, Stanislav Onyschuk, an entrepreneur and the director of a Clinic of Plastic Surgery and Cosmetology, founded a project called “The First Volunteer Surgical Hospital.” This hospital provides free medical treatment and surgeries for individuals affected by the conflict. Before the war Stanislav started a cosmetology clinic in…

Anastasia is 93 years old, and she was born in the Lviv region. At the time, parts of the western areas of Ukraine were part of the Polish Republic, and the world was about to face World War II. She was working as a babysitter for a very famous Ukrainian family of public figures —…