A survey conducted after two years of full-fledged war shows that Ukrainians are more unified than ever in rejecting Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ambitions for their country. Anxiety over future support from the international community, however, tempers their pride at successfully opposing a much larger adversary.
Over 6 million Ukrainians have fled their country due to war since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.Even as the war continues, Ukrainian officials are laying the groundwork to get those citizens back in Ukraine when the war ends.
Even far away from the front lines, there are significant implications to the debate over funding Ukraine’s war with Russia.VOA’s Kane Farabaugh has more on the impact of refugee resettlement in Chicago, the second-largest U.S. city for Ukrainian refugees who have fled the war.
Ukraine has used a range of strategies to repel Russian forces that are encroaching. The most recent one involves training dogs to accompany Ukrainian soldiers during their missions.
For the first time in modern history, Ukraine observed Christmas on December 25 this year. The Russian invasion in early 2022 prompted the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church to abandon their celebration of Christmas on January 7 and adopt the Revised Julian calendar, which aligns Christmas with the Gregorian calendar used in the West.
After a year of bitter battles in Ukraine, neither the Russians nor the Ukrainians have emerged victors, and the front lines virtually at a stalemate. Observers say a protracted war of attrition as war fatigue plagues Ukrainian forces and their Western backers.
Holiday gift packages for the estimated 700,000 men and women serving in the Ukrainian military—including the tens of thousands of soldiers on the front lines—are being put together by volunteers in Ukraine.
After Russia invaded Ukraine, three Ukrainian women-a mother of three, a teacher at a boarding school, and a successful supply manager—who became internally displaced after Russia invaded Ukraine.
The UN says over 5 million people, many of them elderly people, have been driven from their homes as a result of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Thanks to the American charity To Ukraine With Love and a community called Miracle Village, some people are now able to find safe places to live.
Millions of Ukrainians were left without connectivity on Tuesday due to a large-scale cyberattack that targeted the country’s largest mobile network operator. Although service is being gradually restored, the majority of consumers still had no cell phone service a day later.