Sir Ian McKellen read a poem by Ukrainian veteran Arthur Dron to mark the anniversary of russia’s full-scale invasion 💙💛

Der Journalist Serhii Waganow hält am 24. Februar 2022 die letzten friedlichen Momente der ukrainischen Stadt Mariupol vor Urbizid und Besatzung durch Russland fest. Die Menschen stehen Schlange beim Militärkommissariat, der Apotheke oder am Geldautomat...

My interview for Jacobin jacobin.com/2026/02/ukrain…

Noone captures the deep trauma of Russia's war against Ukraine and how it's changing the country like Siobhán O'Grady . Hard to believe this elegaic insightful story about Ukrainian kids growing up in the ruins of war could be one of her last for the Post washingtonpost.com/world/2026/02/…

"I want to smile through tears and weeping" — Lesia Ukrainka. Today, we honor the birth of Lesia Ukrainka (Larysa Kosach-Kvitka) — one of the greatest writers, intellectuals, and feminists of #Ukraine. She was born in 1871, at a time when the Ukrainian language and culture

ICYMI: reposting my long story on intelligence backdrop to Putin's Ukraine invasion: how US/UK found out so much about Russian plans, why Europe & Zelenskyy didn't believe, & much more. 100+interviews & months of work, so I'll be happy if you have a read! theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…

Wait, this is big… We’ve just acquired a major painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, the most celebrated woman artist of the Italian Baroque. “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy” is an intensely intimate masterpiece by one of the greatest artists in history.

It's a couple of years old by now, but this is one of the better articles I've read on the question of genocide in Ukraine. If anything, Russia's prosecution of the war since 2023, when the piece was published, only strengthens its conclusions: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

I love this metaphor from Terence Tao—widely considered the world’s greatest living mathematician—about one of the drawbacks of using AI to solve hard math problems. theatlantic.com/technology/202…

thinking of this anecdote about the first McDonald’s in Russia

OPINION: Putin's propaganda machine has been working overtime to spread the false narrative of a strong Russian economy. In reality, it’s at its weakest point since the Ukraine war began — and likely to get worse, write Rachel Reeves and Elisabeth Svantesson. politico.eu/article/rachel…

La esposa de Tejero supo desde el principio que aquello había fracasado y lo expresó con una elocuencia que ningún historiador habría inventado: “Me lo han dejado 'tirao' como una colilla”. La metáfora,en su vulgaridad precisa, condensa la miseria del 23-F lavanguardia.com/opinion/202602…

Inside Kharkiv’s morgue, where forensic experts work tirelessly to establish the cause of death, in what they see as a battle for justice to Ukrainians killed by the war. The longer the bodies arrive after death, the harder to establish the truth. kyivindependent.com/you-cant-turn-…

More than 50 Ghanaians have been killed in the Ukraine war after being "lured into battle", Ghana's foreign minister said after a visit to Kyiv in which officials raised the issue of recruitment of Africans. reuters.com/world/africa/u…

For the past four years, Russia and Iran have been working together to upgrade their shared drones, testing them on Ukrainian civilians. Today, they are putting those innovations into practice in the UAE and Bahrain. All this time, the world kept saying it’s “just a Ukraine

Los Emiratos del golfo, conociendo de golpe el poder destructor y psicológico de los drones iraníes Shahed que cada noche atacan Ucrania desde hace años

A symbolic timetable at Kyiv Central train station shows departure times for occupied Ukrainian cities. Except Kherson is already coloured white to represent the city’s liberation in November 2022. The first train reads: Kyiv to Victory (“Peremoha”)

In a new Q&A, Karim Sadjadpour says that Iranian officials are likely to “rush to close ranks behind a new leader, whether a cleric or a Revolutionary Guards commander, rather than allow some greater power transition to take place.” foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

Greetings from Kyiv. I will never tire of praising its beauty. March 1. We made it. We survived this winter.

How many more times do these people need to get hit in the face by the reality before their publishers finally begin noticing?