Ukrainian families divided by Russian occupation hang on and hope to be reunited

Daughters of Ukraine: Women on the Front Line - ON THE EDGE | NHK WORLD-JAPAN

The number of women in the Ukrainian military has soared since the start of the Russian invasion. We follow these soldiers as they face the enemy and their own growing sense of despair.

Development Ministry working on creating strategic program to address IDPs’ problems

The Ministry of Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine (Ministry of Development) is working on the creation of a comprehensive strategic program to address the problems of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and the reintegration of temporarily occupied territories with the project name eZhyttia, said Deputy Minister of Development of Communities and Territories Oleksiy Riabykin.

Ukrainian families divided by Russian occupation hang on and hope to be reunited

On a recent Saturday morning, several dozen volunteers at a youth center are weaving strips of cloth to make camouflage netting for the Ukrainian army. They are in the capital of Ukraine’s southeastern province of Zaporizhzhia, about two-thirds of which is controlled by Russian forces. The front line is 25 miles from here. But this city — the biggest in the province, and a major industrial hub — remains firmly in Ukrainian hands.Many of those he…

How Ukraine’s ‘Yellow Ribbon’ Activists Keep Resistance Alive Under Russian Occupation

This April marks the third anniversary of the ‘Yellow Ribbon’ movement, a resistance group formed by Ukrainians living under occupation. Operating in regions such as Luhansk and Crimea, the movement continues to carry out acts of defiance against Russian forces while waiting for the return of Ukrainian control. The coordinator of the movement, whose identity remains undisclosed for security reasons, spoke to Radio NV about the ongoing efforts an…

The victims of war are not just a number in statistics. Each of them had a name and a destiny, and left behind survivors who are learning how to live on.

In the war in Ukraine, which in fact tends to develop homes everywhere, the fact is that there is the battlefield and there is propaganda that mounts parallel realities that favour the fact that conflicts are insoluble. The first task we must have at heart to do is to foster dialogue between communists even if we have at the beginning divergent positions linked to the national narrative that is imposed on us without always having the means to co…