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Olexander Scherba

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Olexander Scherba

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Photo: Sourced

Ukraine’s Plan A is peace

As Russia intensifies attacks on civilian infrastructure, Ukraine is bolstering its strike capabilities while reiterating that its primary goal remains a just and lasting peace.

This war is geopolitical murder

In 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, after having the world beg it not to, a wave of outrage went through mankind. People asked me: “How did Ukraine manage to generate so much…

Once allies: Ukrainians and Russians fought in the World War II trenches together. For generations, they jointly commemorated the fallen under the banner “The Great Victory”. Photo: Presidential Office

Victory Day is no commemoration

Honouring the victims of World War II by putting the world on the verge of World War III is insanity

Age of cruelty

The rise of darkness indeed splits the world … It divides us into those who believe in humanity and those who feel entitled to do whatever they want

Futility: Sixty kilometres — that is the progress President Vladimir Putin’s Russia has made in Donbas since
early 2023. Every centimetre of it is soaked in human blood. Photo: Dimitro Sevastopol

Africa, don’t let Russia use you

Seeing Africans fight and die for this insane comeback of imperialism in its cruelest, boldest form is wrong on many levels

Freeze out: A snow covered Kyiv-Obolon, Ukraine. Russia is using the
harsh winter to try to defeat Ukraine. Photo: Konrad Lembcke

Russian death warrant for Ukrainians

After the Russian army failed to break Ukraine militarily for about four years, they hope to win by breaking the spirit of its civilians

Stop the war: Begged not to start the war against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin went ahead to break a decade-long global taboo of bigger nations invading their smaller counterparts.

Russia’s new old imperialism

It takes true evil to send unwitting, unprepared young men, complete strangers to the whole Ukraine-Russia context, into Europe’s worst meat grinder since World War Two