The Latest Breaking News from Taras Shevchenko

Since last February’s invasion more than 30 statues of the 19th-century poet seen as a symbol for tsarist imperialism have been dismantled

More and more Ukrainians are switching from speaking Russian to speaking Ukrainian. In the media, this language shift is frequently portrayed as recent, dating back to the Russian invasion of February 2022. But the invasion was not the trigger. It was merely an accelerator.

Target of bombs is unclear, with some speculating Russia is trying to destroy key Ukrainian monuments

Series of missiles shatter several months of calm but normal life quickly returns amid the destruction

Protests after Russia calls up reservists and repeats nuclear threats; ‘referendums’ announced for four occupied regions; and life after liberation

Ukrainian recapture of Shevchenkove, Kharkiv region, reveals method of Russian takeover

Earlier this summer, the band performed in a metro station in Kyiv

Russian classical literature, chock full of dehumanizing nationalism, reads disturbingly familiar today.

Colonisation appears to have superseded ‘denazification’ in Putin’s military goals for eastern Ukraine