Eyewitness

As Another Ceasefire Fails, Truth Has Been Strangled By Its Attendant Bodyguard of Lies

February 18, 2015

Field journalist David Patrikarakos, frequently on the front lines of Ukraine, wrote this reflection while in Kiev on February 16, 2015. Almost a year ago today, Ukraine’s former President Viktor Yanukovych ordered snipers stationed on the upper floors of the Hotel Ukraine in Kiev to open fire on the thousands of protestors that had gathered […]

Holding the Line Against the Russian Invasion: A Ukrainian Volunteer’s Memoir

February 17, 2015

Ivan Rodichenko is a volunteer Ukrainian fighter with the Kiev Rus Territorial Defense Battalion. The following memoir was translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. See our report from August on this incident here. This was in July 2014, with the Kiev Rus 25th Battalion, not far from the Russian border in Chernihiv Region (Chernigov), 150 kilometers […]