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Katarína Mathernová: "Ukraine's image as a corrupt state was largely created by Russian propaganda. This is changing."

In this interview, Ashton-Cirillo told Ukrainska Pravda how Ukrainians have surprised the world, whether society in the US continues to support Ukraine, and how effective Russian propaganda is in the West now.

The average score for meeting the (accession) conditions is 8 out of 10. There is a couple of problems: the "PEP law" and parliamentary resistance...

Ukrainska Pravda spoke to the key figures in the events that unfolded around Tuzla in 2003: Colonel General Mykhailo Koval and Serhii Kunitsyn, who was the head of the government in Crimea at the time. Former president Leonid Kuchma answered our questions in writing. This article reconstructing the events of the hot autumn of 2003 sheds light on questions like: What provocations did Putin carry out, how did he try to hide, and how did he grope about for red lines? How did looking through his binoculars on the island of Tuzla help Kuchma realise Ukraine was not Russia? And why did the events of 2003 almost culminate in a war?

Benjamin Haddad: "In France, public opinion tends to be much less cynical and much less afraid of Russia than our elites sometimes are."

In this interview with Ukrainska Pravda, an officer of the Special Operations Forces who is the spokesman for the Central Security Service’s National Resistance Center tells us how a partisan IT worker helped the Armed Forces of Ukraine to make Chornobaivka famous around the world. How ordinary Ukrainians have thwarted the Russians' plans for an easy and total occupation of Ukraine.

How did Andrii 'Juice' Pilshchykov decide he wanted to become a military pilot? Why did he decide, some months before the full-scale invasion, not to renew his contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine? And why was Pilshchykov, one of the most famous people lobbying for Ukraine to be given F-16 fighter jets, not part of the first group of pilots to be trained to fly them? Liliia Averianova, Pilshchykov’s mother, answers these – and other – questions.

Lobodiuk was killed in close combat with Wagner Group mercenaries. He was just 22. The short story of his life is a story about how the war is claiming the lives of the nation's finest people.

Oksana Zolotaryova: "For us, Russian narratives about genocide are just common rhetoric. But for the international community, it was something new. They didn't quite understand what it was about."

Ukrainska Pravda retraced the chronology of the occupation of Kherson Oblast by talking to those who led the defence of the region, fought off the attack on the morning of 24 February and mined the bridges.

During an operation in the Black Sea, a special ops officer Conan was overboard. For 14 hours he was alone in the open sea, under the nose of the Russians. Ukrainska Pravda found Conan to learn about this incident firsthand.

"573 days ago, Russia launched a brutal, full-scale military assault on Ukraine. This is a war of annihilation, imperialism, conquest and atrocity..."

Russia's agent built his presentation on fake historical claims about Nazi Ukraine and accused President Zelenskyy personally of supporting Nazism.

Export self-restriction, to which Kyiv has reluctantly agreed, would be a violation of trade rules, and this violation would be on Ukraine's side.

What was it that allowed the Russians to capture Ukraine's south, occupy Kherson and open up the way to Mariupol in a matter of days? Ukrainska Pravda found and interviewed one of the main eyewitnesses of those events.

Ukrainska Pravda explains what rewilding is and why Ukraine is destined to be a world leader in this field.

Penny Pritzker: "My responsibilities are economically oriented... It involves meeting the reform needs that are necessary for Ukraine to achieve EU accession ."

The approaching European elections have influenced the priorities, which is quite evident from Ursula von der Leyen's recent address.

What is really happening between Ukraine and Poland? Do the current issues have an electoral nature or are they systemic? Will they only intensify in the future?

Colonel Ivan Pavlenko on how electronic warfare has changed modern warfare, on the strengths and weaknesses of the Russians, why they failed to destroy the Ukrainian air defence system, and the Internet and mobile communications.

Snyder: "Russia has to lose the. History teaches us that the reckonings only start after your imperial project fails.

If millions of Ukrainians leave the country definitively, this will have a significant impact on the economy. How can Ukraine avoid the worst possible scenario?

The part two of the story about London assets and Russian oligarchs in United Kingdom – Ukrainska Pravda Investigation

Matti Maasikas: "What Ukraine will have to do on the first day after victory will require a very high level of statesmanship from the authorities."

Ukrainska Pravda investigated the actual pace of the Ukrainian offensive, what is preventing it from accelerating and what problems the large-scale operation in Ukraine’s south and east has revealed.

On 5 September, the Ukrainian parliamentremoved Oleksii Reznikov from the position of Defence Minister with a constitutional majority, and Zelenskyy nominated Rustem Umierov for the appointment of Minister of Defence. Ukrainska Pravda found out why this replacement took so long, what will happen to Reznikov, who else was applying for the position of the Defence Minister, and why the president opted for Umierov.

This meeting was supposed to take place not in Russia, but in Türkiye. Erdoğan did not hide how much he wanted it to happen. However, he travelled to Russia to leave empty handed.

The confiscation of frozen Russian may become a difficult precedent that has no analogs in the modern history of international relations.

The Russian Federation is earning no less than it was before its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. So why do Western sanctions have such a minimal effect on Russia?