October 18, 2024, the VII Kharkiv Security Forum “Civilian Ukrainians: Challenges and Resilience in the Conditions of Terrorist War” was held in Kharkiv. The forum was organized by the Maidan Monitoring Information Center and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation with the support of the Humanitarian Coordination Center. We offer you recommendations based on the results of the forum. […]
The international community should recognize nuclear terrorism as a distinct crime. Ukraine, having experienced nuclear threats, is a key example for advocating the introduction of this concept across all platforms. Preventative measures and clear accountability mechanisms for nuclear terrorism must be established. […]
In the northern part of Kharkiv city, 22 kilometers from the Ukrainian-Russian border, lies the verdant campus of Piatyhatky. Since 2022, this region housing nuclear facilities has been subjected to consistent Russian bombardment.
Amidst this ongoing threat of nuclear catastrophe, how do the residents endure? How do they perceive their future?
What prospects do scientists have in such an environment? How does warfare impact the natural world? What activities do children engage in? And what source of strength allows individuals to persevere? […]
I think there is a possibility of radioactive contamination by further destruction of the nuclear facility by structural fatigue as a result of previous damage. And due to the proximity to the Russian border, shelling and bombing of the nuclear facility can be renewed. […]
Markéta Gregorová, a Czech, originally from the city of Most, became the first European deputy to visit the city of Kharkiv since February 2022. […]
“Checkpoint Little Rohan” documentary follows the activities of three boys ages 9, 10 and 11 years in the village of Mala (Little) Rohan of the Kharkiv region in Ukraine during August-September 2022. The kids survived the occupation of their village by the Russian Army for one month in February-March 2022. […]
The results of the detailed mapping will help in the process of preparing for Ukraine’s post-war recovery and reconstruction and will fill the lack of coverage of these two important topics in war crimes research in Ukraine. […]
This paper is a selection of changes to defence policy and law to make the armed forces more effective at both fighting and administration. All reflect recent comments from front line officers and soldiers, volunteers, business people, and administrators.
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Western authors can incentivize Ukrainian publishers to publish books they authored, in Ukrainian, by both decreasing publishing costs due to a royalty-free license, and guaranteeing no competition from Russian versions. As a result, books will be published in Ukrainian that otherwise would never be published. […]
The humanitarian disaster in Izyum as recalled by Nataliya Zubar in an interview with Ihor Kiianchuk. […]
What is the purpose of the shelling of Kharkiv’s public infrastructure by Russian troops, and does this purpose exist at all? This is the topic of the interview conducted by Petro Pojman with Volodymyr Tymoshko, head of the Main Department of the National Police in the Kharkiv region, at the site of the kindergarten fired at by missiles, August 30, 2022. Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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The situation we observe today on the Ukrainian battlefield provides an answer to the question of why the Russian leadership has purposefully cultivated violent and criminal subcultures. […]
Two weeks after the start of the journey, the package with 10 helmets and two flags of Croatia and Slovenia reached its destination in Kharkiv. Since most MMIC members here had already got their helmets, we decided to share 8 helmets with civilian volunteers who provide humanitarian aid to people in the most war-affected areas of Kharkiv city and region. […]
I grew up in a grey rectangular city built by dreamers playing with gigantic concrete blocks. The dreamers imagined a purposeful communal living where workers together would build a glorious future without some negligible material things distracting them on the way. The future-builders would look out of the enormous three-panel windows of their apartments, see and greet each other. They would spend minimal allotted time in their tiny toilets and kitchens conjoined with bathtubs. These were all great dreams of innovators later called “Constructivists”, but these dreams did not belong to the little girl who loved fairy tales. […]
In addition to daily random shelling of residential areas that are reachable by Russian munitions, there is targeted destruction of civil infrastructure, in particular: […]
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