#20 Ukraine: Up to date

01:20 – Vicious Circle Must Be Broken

When Volodymyr Zelensky ran for the president of Ukraine, the commitment to resolve the conflict in Donbas and stop the war was one of his main campaign promises. A large part of Ukrainian society, not only Zelensky himself, deemed that the war in eastern Ukraine continued not only because of the Kremlin’s interest, but because Kyiv was interested in that also: to use the conflict for justifying political and economic failures and, needless to say, to thrive on the war.

07:21 – Life in the Land of War Colours

Andiivka, Krasnohorivka, Marinka, Shyrokyne, Hnutove, Popasna, Shchastia, and Pisky are toponyms of Donbas that are often mentioned in news about the war in easter Ukraine. This is only a small part of the 155 settlements of Donbas located on the line of contact in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Individual human destinies and stories are hidden in the names of towns and villages. Terrible, piercing, life-affirming, and sometimes just ordinary ones.

Read BUR now! https://www.promoteukraine.org/dirwp-content/uploads/2021/06/bur_6_en.pdf