When counting the casualties of war, there is rarely an idea of the animal kingdom beyond our own bipedal species. It is assumed that Mother Nature will simply “adapt”, with its less evolved inhabitants abandoning old habitats and finding new ones on their own when they have to. Checkpoint Zoo is training its lens on … Read more
Just six months after Russia invaded Ukraine, on a balmy September evening in eastern Germany, I ran into Mykhailo Mudryk shortly after midnight. It was September 2022 and Mudryk was then an emerging talent for Ukrainian champions Shakhtar Donetsk. He scored and was the team’s main attacking threat in a shock 4–1 victory for Shakhtar … Read more
Ukrainian companies recruit women for traditionally male jobs amid Russia’s war – CBS News Watch CBS News With so many Ukrainian men serving in the military amid the country’s war with Russia, companies are recruiting women to fill their jobs. For this small nation, repelling the Russian invasion was very costly. Be the first to … Read more
History, when told well, is a muddy and confusing thing. There are no elegant narratives or happy endings. Philip Sotnychenko’s “La Palisiada” takes this truism and twists it into a suitably complex form: this 1996 film noir chronicles a pivotal moment in Ukrainian history by focusing on the investigation of a murder. But as it … Read more
Russia launched a massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine on Sunday, described by officials as the largest in recent months, targeting energy infrastructure and killing civilians. The attack comes as fears grow over Moscow’s intentions to devastate Ukraine’s power generation capacity as the cold winter approaches. Emergency services personnel work to put out a … Read more
Kyiv, Ukraine — Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital kyiv on Wednesday with a sophisticated combination of missiles and drones for the first time in 73 days, authorities reported, as the Pentagon said most North Korean troops had been sent to help. Moscow’s war effort were fighting to drive the Ukrainian army from Russian soil, in … Read more