EU ambassadors have approved a €90 billion loan for Ukraine, with Hungary lifting its veto. They also endorsed the 20th package of sanctions against russia.

russians attempted to assassinate an aide to the Minister of Defence using a guided Shahed drone.
This is not the first time russians have targeted the apartments of Ukrainian figures in defence, science, and culture at night using Shahed drones.

For the first time in the world, the Ukrainian army has destroyed a Shahed drone from a surface (naval) platform. This was carried out by specialists from the Nemesis Brigade.

On the night of April 19, Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) struck two large russian landing ships in Crimea - “Yamal” and “Nikolay Filchenkov”, and also destroyed an enemy radar station “Podlyot-K1.”

Rescuers from the “Phoenix” evacuation group evacuated four more people from Druzhkivka on April 18. In total, 174 people were evacuated from frontline settlements over the past 24 hours.

The Svyatoshyn Station Limit This is a hauntingly typical story of a Ukrainian woman living a full life amidst constant shelling, nightly descents into the underground, and the grim calculations of exactly what, and how many, mis...

The Svyatoshyn Station Limit

War in Kyiv is boring and mundane. I can’t seem to document the war. Instead, the things that end up getting documented are all sorts of dumb nonsense. 
My life in Kyiv depends heavily on the type of Russian weaponry.

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russia is preparing a new ground offensive in southeastern Ukraine, deploying its strategic reserves to reinforce its forces in the country with an additional 20,000 troops.

With around 680,000 troops currently on Ukrainian territory, russia aims to seize the entire Donbas by September.

Over the past 24 hours, in the relative rear areas of Ukraine, russia killed four people in Dnipro, nine in Odesa, and four in Kyiv.

My sincere condolences to the families of the victims.

In Odesa, eight people are known to have been killed as a result of a russian overnight attack, and another 16 were injured.

Five people were killed in Kyiv.
Among them was a child.
Almost every attack, russian forces kill children.

At least 48 people were injured, including a 9-year-old boy, three police officers, and four medics who had arrived to provide assistance.

Kyiv, Chernihiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy💔

The russian attack has been ongoing for the second day.

Two people were killed and 27 injured in a attack on Dnipro.

Fourteen of the wounded are hospitalized. Five of them are in serious condition.

The strike hit a densely populated civilian area.

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Starting my U.S. trip to raise funds for tactical medicine with Leleka Foundation and Razom for Ukraine.

📍 Newark - Apr 26
📍 New Haven (Yale) - Apr 28
📍 San Francisco - Apr 30
📍 Los Angeles - May 2–3
📍 New York City - May 6–10 (Ukrainian Drama Showcase, «Balance»)
📍 Washington, DC - May 12

FAB-1500 struck central Sloviansk this morning.

Historic homes, small businesses, archives - wiped out in seconds.
A 19th-century landmark locals restored with their own money is now rubble.

Amid the ruins, a soldier pets a rescued puppy:
“There should also be a grey cat. Have you seen it?”

For the first time in the history of this war, an enemy position was captured using only unmanned platforms, ground robotic systems and drones.

Ukraine and Germany agree on a €4B defense package: hundreds of missiles for Patriot systems and long-range drones. Strengthening air defense and strike capability isn’t escalation, it’s survival.

Ukrainian forces destroyed a storage site for strike UAVs using SCALP missiles and GBU-39 guided aerial bombs yesterday and during the night of April 14 in the area of Donetsk Airport.

In addition, Ukrainian strike UAVs hit ammunition depots of russian forces.

Four people were killed and 25 injured as a result of a russian missile strike on Dnipro.

21 people have been hospitalized. 10 are in serious condition.

The dead and wounded are civilians who were traveling along the road in their own vehicles.

The number of people injured after a russian ballistic missile strike in Dnipro has risen to 15; all have been hospitalized.

Nine are in serious condition.

Russia violated its own “Easter ceasefire” over 4,000 times across the frontline by 7 a.m. on April 12.

Assaults continued. Kamikaze and FPV drones kept striking.

No missiles, guided bombs, or Shahed-type drones were used, but combat operations continued.

Дякую 🥳

Another 182 Ukrainians are home!!

Among the released soldiers, most had been held in captivity since 2022, including the heroic defenders of Mariupol. Also home are 25 officers, their release was an extremely difficult task, but the entire

Had one more unexpected year of life.

PhD in Social Work. Book written. 4 theatre premieres. Awards in Ukraine & across Europe. Residency in Germany. Signed my first European theatre contract.

In May - heading to the US (NY, DC, LA) to lecture and raise funds for combat medics.

A massive russian drone attack targeted Odesa.

Two people were killed.
A private house, an apartment building, a dormitory, as well as energy, industrial, and transport infrastructure were hit.

Ukrainian forces conducted a coordinated, multi-layered operation, targeting key russian military assets. Ukrainian drone units destroyed a russian Palantin electronic warfare system, identified and struck elements of an S-300V system, including a launcher and a multi-channel missile guidance radar.

Ukrainian forces reportedly struck two russian offshore oil and gas platforms in the Caspian Sea during the night of 10 April. According to preliminary information, the targets included ice-resistant stationary platforms (LSP-1 and LSP-2) at the Yuri Korchagin and V. Grayfer fields.

In May 2026, the first festival of staged readings of Ukrainian drama, the Ukrainian Drama Showcase, will take place in New York, organized by Razom for Ukraine. The event will run from May 7 to 10 at Flamboyan Theater on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

I am taking part in the Resilient Futures Fellowship.

The programme brings together 17 participants from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine to build networks for advancing resilience.

We work on international projects, study in Warsaw and online and write for European media.

A German volunteer works with our patronage service, Teplonosii, helping translate wounded soldiers’ documents from German. These are the soldiers returning to Ukraine after treatment in Germany.

Walter lives in Ivano-Frankivsk and is married to a Ukrainian woman.

We are very grateful to him!

Russia killed a civilian man in Nikopol during a drone attack on April 4, 2026.

His daughter shared that her father died in the strike. Now, an 11-year-old girl is left without parents, her mother had already passed away.

Nikopol is shelled and attacked regularly.