Блог Ирини Ковальчук

11.02.2024

Preserving an archaeological reserve instead of building a residential complex on a burial ground: the court decides the fate of Kitaevo.

At the same time, the Office of the Prosecutor General and the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, together with the public, are trying to preserve a unique archaeological monument of national importance - the historical area of the Archaeological Reserve - for science and our descendants in the courts: «Kitayevo within the limits of the settlement and three mound groups».
01.03.2023

Witness: Grandmother asked, «Kill me, but don’t touch the children!» (Video).

As a result of the war, residents of many regions of Ukraine have been left without homes. Their tragic stories are different, but they all have one thing in common - the Russian Federation's occupying forces are not interested in keeping Ukrainians in their homes, in their cities and villages.
01.03.2023

Witness: The village of Baklanova Muraviyka was destroyed by Russian cluster munitions (Video).

The village of Baklanova Muraviyka in the Kulikivsky district of Chernihiv region, Ukraine, which was home to only 650 people before the war, like many settlements in this region, experienced devastating bombardments by Russian military aviation. This village, in addition to standard bomb and missile strikes, was hit by cluster munitions.
28.02.2023

Witness: how Russian snipers chose targets in Bucha (Video).

Officially, Russian soldiers killed 458 civilians in Bucha during the occupation in the spring of 2022.
27.02.2023

Witness: resident of Andriivka tells how Kadyrov’s men took her and her husband to be executed (Video).

The village of Andriivka, Kyiv region, has experienced not only large-scale destruction of the residential sector - the street leading to Kyiv has not a single surviving building. Russian soldiers killed at least 17 civilians here. A couple told about the shooting of two villagers.