#Kharkiv

Vladimir Putin’s generals briefed him on the “capture” of two Ukrainian cities this weekend—assertions quickly contradicted by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and OSINT analysts, whose battlefield maps show the towns remain contested and far from the sweeping advances Moscow claims.

From smashing a 2,000-year-old Han dynasty urn to carpeting the vast halls of the Tate Modern with millions of ceramic sunflower seeds, the career of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been defined by large-scale statements. The very established artist, who started off as a dissident not only in China but in the art world itself, talks to us about his time in Ukraine.

A Russian missile barrage targeted western Ukraine overnight, collapsing part of a high‑rise in Ternopil, killing at least 25 and injuring dozens of other residents—including children—as simultaneous strikes battered Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Kharkiv, overwhelming emergency crews across the region.

Boris Mikhailov: Ukrainian Diary—a color-rich portrait of post-Soviet Ukraine—opens in London after debuting in Paris in 2022. Ukrainian Photographer Boris Mikhailov and Paris-based curator Laurie Hurwitz reflect on the decades-long artistic journey that shaped the exhibition, from the radical Kharkiv School of Photography to the transgressive Case Study series, and on creating art in the midst of Russia’s full-scale invasion.