On April 27 Canadian lawmakers voted unanimously to call Russia’s attacks in Ukraine a “genocide”, with members of parliament saying there was “ample evidence of systemic and massive war crimes against humanity” being committed by Moscow. The Canadian House of Commons’ motion said war crimes by Russia include mass atrocities, systematic instances of willful killing […]

Many many minutes of silence would be needed to pay tribute to all of our fallen citizens and find the ability to speak after Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel, Borodyanka, Izyum, Mariupol… For us, Ukrainians, the world has changed and will never be the same as before. We ask you to remain silent with us – in […]

Coexisting: Lviv Cultural Institutions working in a Wartime The Cultural Strategy Institute looks at the work of cultural institutions at a time that no one could have imagined — in the wartime. We arranged interviews with a number of Lviv cultural institutions — theaters, libraries, cultural and art centers — to ask about their current […]

Life that won’t happen   The acute phase of Russia’s war against Ukraine, which began in 2014, has been going on for a month. From February 24, the chronology does not matter for Ukrainians. The number of victims is what’s counting here indeed. It is difficult to say the exact numbers: while we prepare the […]

Stand with us!   Journalists, priests, moms-to-be… all killed by Russian troops   19-th day of Russian war against Ukraine. The Russian military fires and commits violence against civilians, violating all laws and customs of war. Furthermore, on March 13 the first reported death of a foreign journalist was uncovered.    Brent Renaud – acclaimed […]

  Words matter! or How to talk about the war in Ukraine   It is important to call what is happening in Ukraine now in accordance with what the Russian Federation and Russian troops are doing on the territory of Ukraine in essence, with no looking for euphemisms. How else, if not a crime and […]

Ukrainians continue to call on NATO to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine to help save the lives of people. So, according to preliminary data, within the 10.5 days of the Russian invasion, 38 Ukrainian children were killed and 71 injured by Russian shelling. Source: Ukraine’s Ombudsperson Ludmyla Denysova. The Russian occupiers in Ukraine have […]

“Life will overcome death, and light will overcome darkness” these are Ukrainian President’s words written in Ukrainian on the cover of the last TIME’s  issue   “In our history and our homeland we have survived two world wars, three Holodomors, the Holocaust, Babyn Yar, the Great Purge, the Chornobyl disaster, the occupation of Crimea and the […]