Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began when Vladimir Putin published an essay in 2021 portraying Ukraine as an artificial state.

From Bohdan Khmelnytsky to Ivan Mazepa, there were no hetmans.' This old, hyperbolic Ukrainian saying shows just how large ...

History is rattling Ukraine-Poland relations, yet again. The new round of historical grievances erupted in Poland when President Volodymyr Zelensky named a Ukrainian special forces unit after the ...

Yosyf Zisels, a Ukrainian Jew, as he calls himself, describes the significance of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group (UHG). He spent a total of six years in labor camps in the late 1970s for participating ...

After the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, Ukraine gained independence, its own constitution and international recognition. It also inherited a massive Soviet nuclear stockpile — some 1,900 ...

When Russian tanks rolled into the town of Vovchansk in north-east Ukraine in February 2022, some of the locals knew what they needed to do first: save the books. Vyacheslav Borodavka, once a ...

A generation of Ukrainian men has been shaped by the bloodiest war in Europe since World War II. Serhiy Hrebinyk, 25 years old and just released from a Russian prison, is one of them. A generation of ...

On September 26, 2022, seismic-monitoring stations in northern Europe picked up signals that resembled small earthquakes—rumblings below the surface of the Baltic Sea detected as far as a thousand ...

Something unbelievable has just happened in Ukraine. History was made as the crew of a Ukrainian Leopard 2A6 tank has just pulled off a kill that shouldn’t be possible. And that’s not all. Elsewhere ...

NPR speaks with Ukrainian journalist and activist Maksym Butkevych, who volunteered for the Ukrainian armed forces after Russia's full-scale invasion and became a Russian prisoner of war. A MARTÍNEZ, ...