Блог Ирини Ковальчук

24.02.2023

Witness: Shooting by Russian soldiers of an evacuation convoy with children from Makarov.

A resident of Makarov, Kyiv Oblast, told how she and her family were leaving the city captured by  Russian soldiers. The Russian command allowed them to leave, giving them a so-called «green  corridor». However, as soon as the evacuation column of civilians came across Russian military  equipment, they opened fire on people.
24.02.2023

Witness: Russian soldiers killed a resident of Bucha and entered their house (Video).

When Russian invaders enter your peaceful city, they do not announce their arrival. When civilians come out of a house next to which the Russian army enters the city, they are shot at without warning. This is how Lyudmila’s husband from Bucha was killed. Before that, the completely peaceful family had to stay in the cellar for a week under fire — since February 24, 2022, Bucha has been constantly shelled by tanks and Russian aircraft.
23.02.2023

Witness: How russian soldiers tortured and killed residents of Staryi Bykiv.

In the Ukrainian village of Staryi Bykiv in of Chernihiv region, russian soldiers stayed for more than a month. When they entered the village in a convoy, all the men who were on the street were caught. They were tortured for several days and then killed. This was told by the surviving residents of the village.
19.07.2020

Bondarenko: “The Kyiv City State Administration offered nothing to the Cultural Center. Our viewers turned out to be the real fighters for “Kyiv”.

The second part of an interview with the director of the Kyiv Cinema Cultural Center,  Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, Viliya Bondarenko. In the first part, Ms.  Bondarenko told how her creative team resumed the work of a decaying cultural center in  the 2000s, reconstructed the building with credit funds, developed international  relations, and then was left on the street without premises and documents.
09.11.2019

Repair of the «Krakiw» cinema: the roof, which cost 10 million hryvnias, is leaking, and with this contractor, Kyivkinofilm is preparing to conclude a new contract.

According to the contract signed on August 2, 2018, between the Municipal Enterprise of the Executive Body of the Kyiv City Council «Kyivkinofilm» and the winner of the tender for 74.3 million UAH (Ukrainian hryvnia), LLC «Integral Bud-Standard» represented by director Yerokhin D.V., the capital repair works in the premises of the «Krakiw» cinema were supposed to be completed within six months from the start. However, the repair started at the end of October 2018.