Amira Barkhush

Religious leaders, military chaplains, journalists, diplomats, and international supporters gathered in Kyiv to pray for Ukraine—and to reflect on what faith, justice, and solidarity mean more than four years into Russia’s full-scale war.

From roughly 450 kilometers above Earth, Jannicke Mikkelsen was looking through the window of her spacecraft when she noticed something moving between her and the Earth below. She saw a fireball, a meteor maybe? But it behaved differently.

For over 20 years, Oleksii Yukov went where few others would, searching battlefields for the missing and bringing the fallen back to their families. Today, Ukraine gathered in Kyiv to say goodbye.

Since Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, survivors have reported sexual violence in occupied towns, detention centers, and prisons. Years of investigations suggest these were not isolated acts, but part of a broader pattern that has become one of the war’s most difficult crimes to document—and one of its hardest to prosecute.

Before the NATO Summit began, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy outlined a simple goal: leave Ankara with stronger air defenses, new defense industry partnerships, and concrete security commitments for Ukraine. Two days later, how much of that did Ukraine actually achieve?

For more than two centuries, Sweden remained militarily non-aligned. Russia’s aggression changed that almost overnight. Today, Sweden is one of Kyiv’s largest military backers, has joined NATO , and is even adapting its own armed forces based on lessons learned from Ukraine’s battlefield.