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These are three stories of people who encountered the number 200 – each at a different time, under different circumstances. For some, it saved them from the enemy. Others heard it addressed to them. And someone even found an alternative to it – one you likely haven’t heard of.

How a kindergarten teacher became an anti-aircraft gunner, how difficult it is to shoot down a missile flying at breakneck speed, what a person loses and gains when they join the army – these are the stories that Nataliia Hrabarchuk, a soldier of the Ukrainian Air Force, told Ukrainska Pravda.

Russian captivity, the strategy of resistance, and the fight for space of freedom in captivity. We tell the story of Maksym "Moses" Butkevych, his many choices and his path to freedom – a journey far longer than his 850 days in captivity

This is a story about invincibility. About a struggle against thirst, despair and deadly fatigue from which you eventually emerge victorious. It’s a love story too. Told in the special agent’s own words

Ukrainska Pravda spoke to literary critic Vira Aheieva to try to grasp the nature of Russian imperialism, the role Ukraine plays in it, how generations of Ukrainians grappled with it in the 19th and 20th centuries – and how we can avoid the mistakes they made.