Mykyta Ilchenko

Ukraine’s 225th Assault Battalion has been defending the city of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region for over four months. Several positions ended up surrounded by Russian forces, forcing the soldiers into a 70-day circular defense until the battalion finally broke through.

In 1991, an independent Ukraine signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances in 1994. These decisions, often questioned by Ukrainians today, led Ukraine to eliminate the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal.