ConfessionTracked down, coerced, threatened: How Russia hunts down deserters and forces them back to the front lines in Ukraine10 November 2025Viktoriia Ponomareva
SOCIETY“Drones fly right above the stores”: Residents flee the border areas of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Region amid Russian advance10 October 2025Viktoriia Ponomareva
SOCIETY“Russia arrested me in absentia, but an American court said I faced no danger back home”: How Russians are being deported from the U.S.9 October 2025Viktoriia Ponomareva
SOCIETY“We’re back to good old text messages”: Russians adjust to widespread mobile internet shutdowns7 August 2025Viktoriia Ponomareva
SOCIETY“More and more people don’t want to speak Russian”: How Ukrainians’ attitudes toward the Russian language changed during the war28 July 2025Viktoriia Ponomareva
POLITICS“I ran out of the dugout just in time to see the convict chasing a soldier with an axe”: Russian servicemen on the army’s degradation26 May 2025Viktoriia Ponomareva
SOCIETY“The teacher said we invaded to cleanse them of Nazis”: Inside Russia’s classroom campaign against Ukraine14 May 2025Viktoriia Ponomareva
POLITICSChanging channels: How three years of Kremlin propaganda bans in the EU have affected Russian-speaking audiences18 March 2025Viktoriia Ponomareva
Confession“Photos of Putin and Kadyrov were in the dean’s office, like icons”: Russian students expelled for their anti-war views share their stories5 March 2025Viktoriia Ponomareva
SOCIETY“The unwilling were tasered or had their papers signed for them”: Russia’s fall conscription drive reaches new levels of brutality24 December 2024Viktoriia Ponomareva
POLITICS“We broke into homes, looted supermarkets, acting like savages”: Confessions of a Russian Marine who fought in the Kursk Region19 November 2024Viktoriia Ponomareva
Confession“For 72 days I was electrocuted, beaten, not allowed to eat or sleep”: how Russian convicts are driven to “meat-grinder assaults”31 October 2024Viktoriia Ponomareva
SOCIETY“How do they make us sign contracts? They stick needles under our fingernails”: Wounded Russian soldiers forced back into the fight25 September 2024Viktoriia Ponomareva
Confession“Shreds of bodies hung from the branches”: Confessions of “meat grinder” assault veterans8 May 2024Viktoriia Ponomareva
Confession“Dying isn’t as bad as being a Russian POW”: Freed Ukrainian soldiers speak out about their time in Russian captivity15 April 2024Viktoriia Ponomareva
SOCIETYChildren of the Underground: How Kharkiv’s schoolchildren study in the subway amidst constant Russian shelling12 April 2024Viktoriia Ponomareva
SOCIETY“A wave of repression is sweeping over us; people are terrified”: Voices of Crimea after 10 years of occupation19 March 2024Viktoriia Ponomareva
POLITICS“Drafted on the same day, slashed his wrists upon arrival at his army unit”: Coercive tactics in Russian military conscription30 December 2023Viktoriia Ponomareva
SOCIETY“Destroying culture, you destroy identity”: Russia razing Ukraine’s cultural and architectural heritage to the ground27 December 2023Viktoriia Ponomareva
SOCIETY“Even children's toys are booby-trapped.” Why demining Ukraine may take 750 years7 November 2023Viktoriia Ponomareva
SOCIETY“When she hears a loud noise, she drops to the floor covering her head with her hands”. War's effect on children in Ukraine7 October 2023Viktoriia Ponomareva
SOCIETYWarriors of compassion: Veterinarians and volunteers share first-hand accounts of saving animals in Ukraine4 October 2023Viktoriia Ponomareva
Confession“Defending Ukraine, we're fighting for our honor tarnished by Kadyrovites”: Confessions of Chechen AFU fighters4 August 2023Viktoriia Ponomareva
Confession“After what we’ve seen, all problems seem trivial.” Confessions of war correspondents working in Ukraine7 July 2023Viktoriia Ponomareva
POLITICS“We dug trenches with spoons and looked for ways to hide.” How mobilized men were sent to frontline unprepared and unsupplied22 April 2023Viktoriia Ponomareva
POLITICS“Ethnicity is irrelevant, it's the aggressor's identity that matters”: Confessions of Russian Volunteer Corps fighters11 April 2023Viktoriia Ponomareva
POLITICS“I'd rather go to jail than add to the chaos.” How and why Russian contract servicemen evade war in Ukraine15 March 2023Viktoriia Ponomareva
SOCIETY“It's not the sight of blood that scares you but the possibility of making a mistake.” Confessions of frontline medics 10 January 2023Viktoriia Ponomareva
Confession“They sawed my husband's teeth off, he screamed in pain, and I heard it all”: Kherson locals on life under Russian occupation5 January 2023Viktoriia Ponomareva
Confession“This is my land, I am ready to kill for it”. How Ukrainian women fight on the front line3 November 2022Viktoriia Ponomareva
POLITICS“If they don't let me out, I'd rather go to jail than kill.” Russians on how they escaped mobilization7 October 2022Viktoriia Ponomareva
SOCIETYThe virus that wouldn't go away. Why Long COVID sufferers often can't get help21 December 2021Viktoriia Ponomareva
SOCIETYPlacebo Effect: Russian EpiVac scam could cost thousands of lives15 July 2021Viktoriia Ponomareva