Maria Kuchapska

A rally organized by five women in Kyiv grew into Ukraine’s most recognizable civic activism campaign, gaining global traction and offering hope to the families of the missing.

When a Russian drone hit Eddy Scott’s truck in a strike on a humanitarian mission near Pokrovsk, the volunteer lost his limbs. But instead of going home, the British sailor-turned-medic stayed in Ukraine, advocating for the war’s wounded and proving that its reintegration model doesn’t just rival the West, but can teach it.

Cheerleaders, entertainers, and hundreds of fans gathered to cheer on players competing for gold at the first-ever All-Ukrainian Wheelchair Basketball Tournament for veterans. On the court, skill, talent, and fierce competition give new insight into what life with a disability can look like.

Amid scorched battlefields, burnt-out tanks, and frozen trenches, ordinary people risk everything to defend freedom. Ukrainian combat medics share firsthand stories of evacuating the wounded under Russian fire, where survival is a race against time.

Refusing to bow to an occupier in Russia’s world labels you as “mentally ill.” Through forced diagnoses, drugging, and institutionalizing—even children—Russia’s modern occupation of Ukraine echoes a horrifying Soviet tactic: punitive psychiatry.

From the average Joe to the famous one—Rogan—Russian propaganda has successfully seeped into both everyday conversations and influential platforms, constructing anti-Ukrainian sentiments using sensationalism to elicit an emotional reaction from people otherwise unfamiliar with Ukraine, its culture, politics, and history.