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Terykon

Terykon

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From the slag heaps of war, a clear view of Ukraine. Independent Ukraine-based analysis by Giorgio Provinciali and Alla Perdei, read by an AI-generated voice.

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  1. Fallen On A Terykon: «I Was The One Who Pulled The Trigger Of War»

    · 14 min

    Bottom Line: On July 17, 2014, a Buk launcher of the russian 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade from Kursk shot down flight MH17 over Hrabove, killing 298 people, a finding confirmed by Dutch investigators, The Hague…

  2. Who’s Afraid of Khmara

    · 13 min

    Bottom Line: On July 16 Zelensky named SBU chief Yevhenii Khmara, former commander of the Alpha unit, acting defense minister amid the Service’s 40-day deep-strike campaign against russia. The appointment means…

  3. The Perception Front

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: In Kyiv, Mykhailo Fedorov’s July 15 removal from the Defense Ministry threatens the shift in partners’ perception his six months had helped produce, from expected defeat to a winning Ukraine. That trust is…

  4. A Different League: The Message Zelensky Couldn’t Deliver Himself

    · 19 min

    Bottom Line: The fall of Yulia Svyrydenko’s government, ratified by the Rada on July 14, removed Mykhailo Fedorov from Defense after six months of drone-first reforms and an open clash with commander-in-chief Syrskyi.…

  5. On The Wings Of The Wind: Ukraine’s Answer To The Glide Bomb

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: Near Dobropillia, in Donetsk oblast’, a Ukrainian aerostat seen over a drone-saturated road introduces the balloon family led by the DART missile, released from 12 to 18 kilometers, guided by satellite…

  6. Machines First, Man Last — The Fedorov Doctrine Behind History’s First Landing of the Machines

    · 14 min

    Bottom Line: On July 13 the 123rd brigade announced the first robotic landing in combat: a sea drone carried an armed ground robot onto the russian-occupied Kinburn Spit in the Mykolaiv region, where it opened fire…

  7. How Ukrainian Engineers Changed the Game

    · 4:49

    Bottom Line: Amid renewed russian strikes on civilian infrastructure in Kyiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv, the Patriot system’s success against Kinzhal hypersonic missiles is credited to Ukrainian engineers, who…

  8. Hospitals Under Attack

    · 4:15

    Bottom Line: From Zhytomyr, russia’s move to withdraw from the World Health Organization, justified by duma deputy chairman Pyotr Tolstoy as a defence of ‘russian values’, is set against WHO data showing 1,067 russian…

  9. When Evil Enters Churches

    · 6:47

    Bottom Line: SBU raids on churches, part of Kyiv’s drive against russian disinformation, have uncovered evidence of russian infiltration in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church — moscow Patriarchate, from instructions sent by…

  10. Inextricable Impasse

    · 6:28

    Bottom Line: General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi has warned that upgraded russian S-400 defenses blunt the F-16s due next year and that only technological leaps can break the stalemate. Contrasting Time’s earlier praise of…

  11. A Leap In The Dark

    · 4:31

    Bottom Line: Hours after the invasion began, russian scientists published an appeal calling the war “a leap in the dark” that would isolate russia; the page is now unreachable and many signatories have emigrated after…

  12. Being Ukrainians

    · 6:54

    Bottom Line: From Kolinkivtsi, in Chernivtsi oblast’, a testimony recalls that the russian invasion began before 2014 with settlers holding Ukrainian passports and the “green men”, and that on 24 February 2022 a woman…

  13. Holodomor Now

    · 5:21

    Bottom Line: On the day Ukraine remembers the Holodomor, Stalin’s dekulakization and the artificial famine of 1932–1933 are recalled as killing 7 to 10 million Ukrainians, according to a 2003 UN declaration, with 2…

  14. russian Killers in Civilian Clothes

    · 6:01

    Bottom Line: Testimonies gathered in Uman’ and other Ukrainian cities show russian missiles overwhelmingly hitting schools, hospitals, parks and energy infrastructure, while known military bases remain intact. Given…

  15. The Yunarmiya Project: Training Young People for the Regime

    · 4:02

    Bottom Line: Yunarmiya, a paramilitary youth organization financed by the russian Ministry of Defense, claims one and a half million members trained from pre-school age in regime values and combat skills, a model…

  16. The Day of Freedom And Dignity

    · 4:39

    Bottom Line: Ukraine marked the tenth anniversary of the Day of Freedom and Dignity, commemorating Euromaidan, whose roots lie in the 2004 Orange Revolution against Yanukovych’s electoral fraud and the dioxin poisoning…

  17. Yet Another Year Marked With Blood

    · 4:36

    Bottom Line: On the southern front, beyond the Surovikin lines, russians fired ten or even twenty shots for every two Ukrainian ones while throwing waves of troops at Ukrainian fortifications. Meanwhile, moscow…

  18. Christmas Beyond the Surovikin Lines

    · 4:22

    Bottom Line: At Christmas on the Southern Front, beyond the Surovikin lines broken by Ukrainian forces during the second counteroffensive, a reporting team crossed drone-watched roads into a destroyed city to reach…

  19. Meeting Zelensky

    · 4:27

    Bottom Line: At President Zelensky’s end-of-year press conference in Kyiv, where La Ragione was the only Italian outlet present, Zelensky denied any conflict with Zaluzhnyi, recalled the failure of the russian…

  20. russian Butchery in Mariupol’

    · 4:14

    Bottom Line: From 24 February, Viktoriya Pashkova, a nurse from Makiyivka working at the Mariupol’ Regional Hospital, treated a stream of casualties torn apart by explosions as russian bombing cut water and power. She…

  21. Heroic Medicine

    · 3:52

    Bottom Line: In Ukraine, doctors often work in precarious conditions without electricity. Alone with two bomb disposal experts and without electrocoagulation, a surgeon removed an unexploded VOG grenade lodged…

  22. Luhansk Russified

    · 4:25

    Bottom Line: In Chernivtsi, Stas, who grew up in Luhansk, recounted fleeing russian bombs at 15 on an evacuation bus that forced a russian checkpoint, and escaping again after returning home shortly before the…

  23. The Biggest DDoS Ever

    · 4:28

    Bottom Line: In Yarmolyntsi, Khmelnytskyi oblast’, metal debris from a massive night attack of russian missiles and drones broke through a house roof for the second time in under six months. A russian DDoS cyber…

  24. Act. Now.

    · 4:20

    Bottom Line: The latest Kiel Institute update shows the EU, with 88.88 billion disbursed, overtaking the United States, stuck at 71.38, as Kyiv’s largest financier, though Washington remains the main military sponsor.…

  25. Most Western Media Keep Reporting Fake News

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: As the war enters what Zelensky called a new phase, Ukraine’s allies are faulted for sending weapons late and in insufficient quantities, with tanks arriving mid-counteroffensive and F-16s only in 2024.…

  26. PsyOps

    · 4:18

    Bottom Line: Ukraine’s SBU believes russian special services are staging provocations abroad and at home, part of a “Maidan 3” project, to undermine Zelensky, weaken partner support and divide Ukrainian society. The…

  27. Strike On Makarivka

    · 3:33

    Bottom Line: On the roads between Yasnohorodka, Motyzhyn and Makarivka in Kyiv oblast’, traces remain of russian checkpoints where civilians were kidnapped or shot, alongside erased billboards, destroyed overpasses and…

  28. The Situation Inside Temporarily Occupied Territories

    · 4:42

    Bottom Line: A summary of a National Resistance Center of Ukraine study, updated to the first half of 2023, describes the temporarily occupied territories, where more than 440,000 russian soldiers were deployed,…

  29. Underground Schools

    · 4:15

    Bottom Line: In Kharkiv, mayor Ihor Terekhov announced the first underground school as russian missile and drone strikes, combined to saturate air defenses, hit Zaporizhzhia and a Nova Poshta hub in the city. Five…

  30. Irpin’ Defended Kyiv

    · 3:52

    Bottom Line: Irpin’, awarded the title of “heroine of Ukraine”, marks the end of putin’s plan to take Kyiv in three days. Some 500 days after the fighting, children play on a stadium pitted by russian artillery, near a…

  31. Why Helping Ukraine Is Necessary

    · 4:41

    Bottom Line: Citing a DGAP paper warning that moscow could field an army able to attack NATO within six to ten years, and a russian budget devoting a third of spending to defense, arming Ukraine is presented as NATO’s…

  32. Why F-16s

    · 5:05

    Bottom Line: In the most massive drone attack since the large-scale invasion began, 75 UAVs struck Kyiv in one night; air defenses downed 71, but debris damaged several districts, burned a nursery and injured five…

  33. Walking On a Minefield

    · 3:55

    Bottom Line: Bohdan, 25 and working in the Czech Republic on February 24, 2022, returned to Ukraine, volunteered below the minimum age and, after 24 days of training in Great Britain, joined the 80th amphibious…

  34. The Ghost of Vinnytsia

    · 3:51

    Bottom Line: Vadim Voroshilov, a Ukrainian Air Force pilot nicknamed “Karaya” who had retired in 2021, rejoined after the large-scale invasion and flew at least 20 missions, earning the name “the Ghost of Vinnytsia.”…

  35. Punitive Psyc

    · 8:08

    Bottom Line: After russia’s Supreme Court declared the “international LGBT+ social movement” extremist in a classified four-hour hearing, an offence punishable by up to 10 years in prison, police raided clubs, bars and…

  36. Hostomel’ Regained: The First Real Battle And Major russian Defeat

    · 7:50

    Bottom Line: At dawn on February 24, 2022, russian airmobile troops attacked Antonov airport in Hostomel’, the runway meant to bring in armour and troops for Kyiv’s capitulation, and took and lost it three times.…

  37. Interview Inside a Bunker

    · 6:56

    Bottom Line: Sheltering from russian missiles in a Soviet-era bunker in Chernivtsi, a couple from Kharkiv recounted ten days barricaded at home during the battle, their escape under fire and the candles they made for…

  38. Borodianka, The Day After

    · 4:12

    Bottom Line: Entering Borodianka after the russian occupation, the reporter found a town razed to the ground, with gutted housing blocks, craters and a statue of Taras Shevchenko shot in the head, but no military…

  39. Beyond Zaluzhnyi lines

    · 4:39

    Bottom Line: After returning from the southern front and consulting General Zaluzhnyi, President Zelensky ordered impenetrable defensive lines to protect the territories returned under Kyiv’s control, as russia…

  40. Neslamna

    · 16 min

    Bottom Line: Ukrainian marines consolidated positions on the left bank of the Dnipro near Krynky, while russian assaults around Avdiivka cost moscow at least 10,000 men in under a month, yet few newspapers reported…

  41. Bucha

    · 7:04

    Bottom Line: In Bucha, survivors Larissa and Vasyl recounted the rashist occupation: civilians shot, women raped at checkpoints or hidden in manure, and isolated acts of armed resistance. The city is now almost…

  42. Propaganda Diary

    · 4:20 · Explicit

    Bottom Line: The Ukrainian fact-checking project VoxCheck recorded at least 13,131 cases of pro-russian disinformation in six European countries between 24 February 2022 and October 2023, built on three messages…

  43. BAM!

    · 4:20

    Bottom Line: In Kyiv, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov presented to the 30-country “IT coalition” the results of the cloud-based “Delta” situational awareness system, backing a strategy of exhausting enemy resources…

  44. Being Rashists

    · 8:46

    Bottom Line: In Lviv, a strike by 10 Kalibr missiles from Black Sea submarines saw 3 hit residential buildings, killing around 40 civilians while russian media called them “the right targets”. Returning to the city,…

  45. Saboteurs

    · 4:35

    Bottom Line: On the northern front, russian sabotage units have staged incursions for at least a month, making it Ukraine’s most dangerous area, yet Italian media ignore it. Shortly after the reporters passed, six…

  46. Young Victims Of russian Crimes And Lies

    · 10 min

    Bottom Line: Ukrainian official figures put at 19,546 the children deported to russia in 22 months, with only 387 returned, while Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab traced thousands to “re-education” camps tied to the…

  47. Pain In Their Eyes

    · 4:15

    Bottom Line: Kamianets-Podilskyj, first mentioned in 1062 as a city of Kyiv Rus’ and once de facto capital of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, disproves russian claims that Ukraine is a Bolshevik invention. Its streets…

  48. High-Flying Lies

    · 4:42

    Bottom Line: A russian Il-76 transport plane was shot down over Yablonovo in Korochansky district, and kremlin media claimed it carried 63 Ukrainian prisoners headed to Belgorod for exchange. Kyiv said it had not been…

  49. 700 Days Ukraine Defends The World

    · 4:30

    Bottom Line: At 5.40 on the morning of January 25, 2024, Iranian Shahed drones struck Kyiv about four kilometers from the authors’ home in the center. They visited four impact sites: a school whose neighboring…

  50. Wall Against Walls

    · 4:49

    Bottom Line: On the Northern Front, facing 22,000 russian and Belarusian soldiers, Ukraine allocated 17.5 billion hryvnia for fortifications, while Metinvest began producing modular underground checkpoints, avoiding…

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