24.02: The Invasion Reconstructed

We are pleased to present the trailer for the new season of the Ukrainian Spaces podcast, which is available on UP.  For our fifth season, Ukrainian Spaces returns to where it began: revisiting six Ukrainians from the 2022 inaugural season to see how hope, resistance, and resilience have shaped their lives. Across six episodes – fear, belonging, language, love, resistance, and the future – ou...

"Kyiv will stand as long as Chernihiv stands. As long as Kyiv stands, Ukraine keeps fighting." This quote from Taras Chmut, founder of the Come Back Alive Foundation, captures the essence of the predicament of the Ukrainian defence forces in Chernihiv on the morning of 24 February 2022. Convoys of Russian military vehicles and hardware, stretching out over dozens of kilometres, are easy to spot on...

This is the first part of the final episode of Ukrainska Pravda’s podcast 24 February Reconstructed, in which Ukrainska Pravda tried to recreate the military events of the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion: how the fronts emerged and moved, who heroically stopped the Russians’ advance and how they did so, how Ukrainian cities and the country as a whole recovered from the first shock and pr...

The image of the guarded presidential post where the top officials of the Cabinet of Ministers, the President's Office and the Verkhovna Rada gathered on 24 February 2022 reflected the nature of the entire resistance to the aggressor: sometimes poorly organised, but really deep. Ukrainska Pravda continues its podcast series 24.02: RECONSTRUCTION and brings its readers the next fascinating episode...

While the military was preparing everything necessary to repel Russian attacks from several directions simultaneously, the state apparatus was involved in making decisions on the security of the country's top officials and wartime legislative decisions. One of the most important thing to be decided at the moment was the introduction of martial law in Ukraine and the announcement of mobilisation. I...

23 February 2022 seemed to drag on forever. It seemed like it couldn't get any worse. All sorts of intelligence agencies had spent the last few weeks trying to give President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the date when the full-scale Russian invasion would "definitely" begin. These dates rolled by – 16, 19, 22 February – without anything happening. The night of 23-24 February was said to be the next possibl...