On Oct. 7, four aerial bombs struck residential areas in the city of Kherson in Southern Ukraine, injuring 20 civilians, including two children, two and four years old. At one of the sites, across [...] Continue Reading
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Military Madness
BY BOB MCCLOSKEY “Military madness is killing your country, So much sadness, between you and me, War, war, war, war, war, war.” —Graham Nash War Abroad and at Home Against the [...] Continue Reading
Inferno Tactics
Lukashivka, a Ukrainian village in the Sumy region in northern Ukraine, located just 200 meters from the Russian border, was razed to the ground by guided aerial bombs in March 2024. Oleksandrivka, [...] Continue Reading
Kherson’s Hell from Above
On Aug. 2, around 11 a.m., Angela was at work when her husband of 32 years, Serhiy, drove their car home from the auto repair shop and parked it under a leafy tree to hide it from a drone. Just a week [...] Continue Reading
Human Toll of Broken Security Promises
“We were the first to meet the enemy,” said Tetiana Mironenko, representative of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Commissioner for Human Rights Protection. We met in a spacious office in downtown [...] Continue Reading
On the Edge: Chernihiv’s Resilience Amid Russian Threats
Volodymyr is the mayor of Novoselivka, a village in northern Ukraine, located only 50 miles south of the border where Russian troops are conglomerating again. There are talks of a new offensive. A [...] Continue Reading
The June 2024 Issue of the Community Alliance
You can read the print version of the paper below. This is a .pdf of the June 2024 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier [...] Continue Reading
Ukrainian Displacement’s Impact on EU Elections
On Feb. 24, 2022, Olha was planning to take her 13-year-old cat Busynka to a vet for chipping and vaccination as they would have to flee Ukraine. The war could start at any moment. Living in [...] Continue Reading
At the Crossroads in Ukraine
At 10:30 p.m. Kyiv time, on April 14, by Odesa railway station, a short, middle-aged woman with a boyish salt-and-pepper haircut gets on the long-distance bus to Moldova and cries quietly, sunglasses [...] Continue Reading
Unprecedented Assault: Russia Attacks Odesa
Odesa, a major Black Sea port located in the south of Ukraine, was targeted by incessant drone and ballistic missile attacks in March 2024. After Russian President Vladimir Putin again announced Odesa [...] Continue Reading
Life and Loss in Kherson Two Years On
On Feb. 5, Russian artillery hit a southern regional center, Kherson, killing four civilians. With 70,000 Russian troops concentrated in Kherson and Zaporizhzhya oblasts along the Dnipro River, the [...] Continue Reading
Truskavets: Turbulent History and Ukrainian Resilience
Truskavets, a picturesque city 84 kilometers south of Lviv in Western Ukraine, is one of Europe’s oldest balneological resorts, offering unique mineral springs and a healing climate. Located in an [...] Continue Reading