Olha Moskaliuk

Yevhen Terekhov (Titanium Jackson): "Most terrible ’road of life’ I would call distance to another trench when ours collapsed. It was hard. I would say it was 700 metres of hell." Yevhen Terekhov mobilised in 2014. Then in August he was seriously wounded. Since then, he has 28 pieces of shrapnel in his body and a titanium plate in his head. But this did not stop him at the beginning of the full-scale war when he returned to the front. 07.03.24 09:52 10 469 5 Previously in trend: War

Colonel Valerii Kurko: "Soldiers are not matches to be burned in whole boxes" We recorded this interview with Colonel Valeriy Kurko in June 2022, when he commanded the 103rd Territorial Defence Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, we did not receive official permission to publish it at the time. 01.03.24 08:05 25 912 24 Previously in trend: War

Call sign Marseille: "Russians are "throwing" everything they have. They are going to their inevitable death and trying to hit everything that can be levelled to ground" Our hero Artem is from Melitopol, which was occupied by the Russians at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. He and his family were forced to leave the city. On the way, he had to "communicate" with Russians, Kadyrovites, and Buryats. After he sent his family abroad, he volunteered for a year and a half: he brought the military what they asked for, got and repaired their cars. Then - the army. Here he became a driver of an operational group of a UAV reconnaissance unit. He was given the call sign Marcel by his comrades-in-arms, similar to the events of the world-famous French movie. 24.02.24 09:25 7 729 3 Previously in trend: War

Colonel Serhii Sidorin: Enemy intensified offensive actions almost along entire frontline. We could say that he did not stop them, but only made pauses The Russians have intensified their offensive along the entire front line. The Bakhmut direction, where the hero of our interview, Colonel Serhii Sidorin, commander of the battalion tactical group of the 4th Rubizh operational brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, is fighting, remains difficult. 21.02.24 12:55 11 476 11 Previously in trend: War

"They told me in prison that he was executed by shooting" - story of Yahupovs: military and civilian prisoner The Yahupovs have experienced what hell on earth is like. Artur is a soldier who joined the army under a contract in 2019, defended Kharkiv at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, and is now in a Poltava hospital due to spinal problems. Olena is a civilian who survived the occupation in her hometown of Kamianka-Dniprovska of Zaporizhzhia region, a filtration camp and captivity. She was beaten, strangled, tortured, kept in inhumane conditions and forced to dig trenches for the Russians in the cold. She says she was a slave. She miraculously managed to escape and return to the free territory of Ukraine. 16.02.24 08:50 7 651 4 Previously in trend: War

Writer and soldier Valerii Puzik: "There is gap between civilians and military. And it is growing exponentially. It keeps getting worse" He could have continued to write children’s fairy tales about wizards and dragons. Instead, he writes about war. Not from legends. From the trench. 03.02.24 10:10 22 647 75 Previously in trend: War

Call sign Batman: "When we arrived in Avdiivka, we saw damaged equipment, mowed down plantations, mud, and wounded people. There was clear understanding that there was big real war going on." Anatolii, a senior gunner with the 6th Separate Rifle Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, call sign Batman, went to the Russian-Ukrainian war at the age of 19 in late 2015. He served under contract for three years. He fought in Volnovakha, Novotroitske, and Kurakhove. Then, in civilian life, he worked abroad. Before the full-scale attack, he returned to Ukraine for a while and was supposed to go back. But on February 24, 2022, his plans changed. 30.01.24 10:10 11 015 11 Previously in trend: War

Oleksii Chub: "Intense mortar fire started from three sides. 120th shell hit trench about meter away from me. My comrade’s back was completely wounded - "sieve". My arm was torn off." Oleksii Chub, a fighter of the famous 93rd Brigade "Kholodnyi Yar" of the first motorized infantry company, worked as a miner in his native Pavlohrad until 2014. Then he was mobilized. He served until mid-2016. He returned to the mine, but after the full-scale invasion, he rejoined the Armed Forces to defend the country. He fought in the hottest areas of Kharkiv and Donbas. 23.01.24 13:05 11 552 6 Previously in trend: War

Andrii Otchenash, crew commander of "Visitation of God" UAV: "In Klishchiivka, we managed to use copter to evacuate group that was lost in complete darkness" Andrii Otchenash, the crew commander of the UAV "visitation of God" of the 4th Operational Brigade "Rubizh" of the National Guard of Ukraine, has known what war is like since 2014. Back then he fought in a volunteer battalion of the OUN (Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists). Two years later, he signed a contract, after which he went abroad to travel. He hitchhiked about 30 thousand kilometers in Southeast Asia. When the COVID-19 epidemic began, traveling stopped. The borders were closed, so I couldn’t return home. I settled in Cambodia. I found a job and lived here until Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine. 13.01.24 12:25 9 387 11 Previously in trend: War

Oleh Pryimachov, thai-boxing champion and soldier: "I can go longer distance in body armor and equipment, but I don’t have halo of protection either. Everyone is mortal. And this is war." Oleg Priymyachov, the world champion in Thai boxing, did not believe that Russia could wage a full-scale war on Ukraine. He admits that he was not prepared for such events. But when it all started, he joined the ranks of the Poltava-based territory defence unit. In March 2022, he sold his gold medal from the 2017 World Games at an auction for 20 thousand hryvnias. It was bought by a philanthropist from Poltava. Half of the money went to support the military and the other half to IDPs. Currently, she serves in the "Artan" special unit of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine. But he does not forget about sports - he goes to the ring to win there. 11.01.24 09:40 13 105 6 Previously in trend: War

Rodion Kudryashov, 3rd Separate Assault Brigade: "No matter how much we want to relax, to abstract ourselves from this war, reality is quite harsh: if we relax for minute, we will lose it." The deputy commander of the 3rd Brigade, Major Rodion Kudryashov, never wanted to become a soldier. But after the Revolution of Dignity, the annexation of Crimea and Russia’s offensive in Donbas, he joined Azov in spring 2014. 05.01.24 09:10 9 175 5 Previously in trend: War

Colonel Oleksandr Gramarchuk (Hrom): "End of war according to classics is defeat or victory. There are still many years of struggle ahead. Unfortunately " Colonel Oleksandr Hramarchuk, call sign Hrom, is a career soldier. At the beginning of 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and invaded the territory of Donbas, he joined the ATO. He performed combat missions, in particular in Debaltseve and at the Zenit position opposite Donetsk airport. 25.12.23 10:05 17 142 62 Previously in trend: War

Dmytro Kukharchuk (Slip), 3rd Brigade commander: War has changed in August-September this year and turned into drone warfare Dmytro Kukharchuk, commander of the 2nd Assault Battalion of the 3rd Separate Mechanized Brigade with call sign Slip, went to the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2014. But he resigned the following year. - I wouldn’t have done it if the country’s leadership at the time had been willing to fight for Ukrainian territories. We understood that this was not the case," he explained to me. - "In fact, I really regret not staying then. Thus, there was no intense fighting for a long period of time, but I would have had the opportunity to improve my military skills. But it has already happened. It didn’t matter. As soon as the full-scale invasion began, I came back. Now I have to push the matter through. 18.12.23 19:30 16 805 7 Previously in trend: War

Military judge Oleksii Sytailo: I took warnings of full-scale invasion seriously. Back in December, there was information that Prosecutor General’s Office started taking out files Oleksii Sytailo, the head of the Seredyna-Buda District Court in Sumy region, prepared for the full-scale invasion in advance, so he ensured that the cases were archived and evacuated from the court. He did this because he had received information from border guards a few weeks earlier that the Russians were preparing an offensive. 12.12.23 18:20 18 498 14 Previously in trend: War

Serhii Dykun, who lost his leg in war: "I think I’ll be useful in army. My amputation is not too big yet - one leg... I will be useful in army somewhere" Serhii Dykun is from Nikopol of the Dnipropetrovsk region. He is an ATO (anti-terrorist operation) veteran who worked abroad for five years and returned to Ukraine after the full-scale invasion. In August this year, he lost his right leg during a combat mission in the Luhansk region. Now he is undergoing treatment and waiting for a prosthesis at the Unbreakable Rehabilitation Center in Lviv, where he was admitted on 24 October. This is where we met. This is the first interview he has ever had, so he does not hide his emotions. He feels shy. But he speaks sincerely and frankly. 04.12.23 19:45 10 186 5 Previously in trend: War

Azov soldier, call sign Lemko: "In Olenivka, Russians wanted to execute all of us. As usual, they planned poorly, and not all of us died." Books and films should be written and made about people like him. These soldiers are making the history of modern Ukraine. Major Arsen Dmytryk is 29 years old, and he has been fighting in the Russian-Ukrainian war for nine years. At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, he defended Mariupol. He was at Azovstal. After leaving the plant, he was sent to Olenivka. He survived the terrorist attack that took place here on the night of July 28-29 last year. 01.12.23 17:50 27 699 16 Previously in trend: War

Military serviceman Artem Moroz: "Two and half liters of blood were infused into me. I don’t know how I survived" Before the full-scale invasion, Artem Moroz worked as a civil engineer. Together with his wife, he raised two children. He went in for sports. He did not stop training even after the injury, due to which he lost both legs. This happened in September 2022 in the Kherson region. And in half a year, Artem ran the Boston Marathon with prostheses. 14.11.23 23:21 11 671 5 Previously in trend: War