The Russians continue to destroy the cultural heritage of Ukraine in the temporarily occupied territories. They loot museums and burn Ukrainian literature in libraries and schools. Textbooks published in the Ukrainian language are subject to destruction - this information is reported by Ukrainian intelligence officers and residents of the temporarily occupied territories.
Der ostukrainische Ort Bachmut hat sich zum Hauptkampfplatz entwickelt. Experten sprechen von einem Abnutzungskrieg, bei dem einiges an die deutsch-französische Schlacht um Verdun von 1916 erinnert.
While Tony is abroad as a volunteer soldier fighting in Ukraine, his wife Kim is home caring for their children and running their business. They share their insight into what it's like on either side of a conflict - for those who go, and those who stay.
Ten Ukrainian cities are already more than 70 percent destroyed. Another six cities are at least over 30 percent destroyed. Most are in the eastern regions near the front line. The longer the war lasts, the fuller this map will become. (Photo report)
A month before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian state called on its citizens in Russia to return home. Rita was one of those who heeded this call. As the war began, she found herself caught in the first moments of the fighting while crossing the border between the two countries now embroiled in brutal warfare.
After nearly a year of war, despite Ukrainians standing together and giving what they can between each other to help, international charity and awareness of the conflict has begun to fall off. A team in Latvia has come up with a modern solution meant to make supporting the Ukrainian military effortless. STOPIFY offers a monthly-subscription style donation for the price of a coffee.
KATAPULT wird vorgeworfen, Spenden veruntreut zu haben. Das ist unwahr. Dieser Bericht gibt detailliert Auskunft darüber, wie wir die Gelder verwendet haben.
At the opening of the second summit of the “Crimean platform” on August 23, 2022, the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy assured: Ukraine will definitely return to Crimea. From Crimea it [the Russian occupation] all began, and it will end.
Nach Schätzungen des Bundesamtes für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF) waren zum 1. November 2022 insgesamt 1.019.789 Personen im Ausländerzentralregister (AZR) registriert. Was machen sie hier: arbeiten, studieren? Wie viele von ihnen können Deutsch? Welche Perspektive haben sie überhaupt in Deutschland?
Mein Verhalten innerhalb des Ukraine-Projekts wird hart kritisiert. Einiges ist gerechtfertigt, einiges nicht. Ich ziehe daraus die Konsequenzen und trete als KATAPULT-Geschäftsführer und -Chefredakteur zurück. Um das zu verwirklichen, was ich angekündigt habe.
Ukraine is losing its churches at an alarming rate as Russia's invasion of the country takes its toll on some of the country's most significant historical sites.
Für 2023 plant die ukrainische Regierung einen Verteidigungshaushalt von 30 Milliarden Dollar. Das wären 13 Prozent des Bruttoinlandsprodukts und 44 Prozent des gesamten Haushalts.
Estland hat nur 1,3 Millionen Einwohner:innen. Für das russische Nachbarland ist der Einmarsch in die Ukraine eine reale Bedrohung. Über ein Prozent seiner Wirtschaftsleistung investiert das baltische Land, um die Ukraine zu unterstützen.
Ukraine has been in the market for tanks and, until now, had struggled to find a supplier to bolster their supplies. However, after a series of negotiations and some applied political pressure between allies, it seems that order will soon be filled.
Volodymyr Selenskyj feiert heute seinen 45.Geburtstag. Der junge Präsident, der als Person des Jahres 2022 gewählt wurde. In vielen Länder sind im letzten Jahr Biografien über Selenskyj erschienen und Katapult Ukraine hat eine kurze Zusammenfassung für euch gemacht. Was hat der Präsident der Ukraine in seinen 3,5 Jahren Amtszeit geschafft!?
Die russische Invasion der Ukraine trifft die Menschen auch dort, wo nicht gekämpft wird. Schon vor
Kriegsbeginn zählte die Ukraine zu den ärmsten Ländern Europas, doch wie verschlimmert der Krieg
diese Situation? Neben unzähligen freiwilligen Hilfsorganisationen unterstützt auch der Staat – mit
den wenigen Mitteln, die ihm zur Verfügung stehen.
For many, the Russian attacks against Ukraine are a thing of nine months ago. The 24th of February in 2022 feels to the world like the day on which life in Ukraine stood still. But really, this war in Ukraine has been there a lot longer – 8 years already to be exact.
Anna Ilyshenkova has something to say about this – she’s one of the women who volunteered right at the very beginning of the war.
Die zweitgrößte Stadt der Ukraine war hart umkämpft. Russische Soldaten drangen bis ins Zentrum der Stadt vor. Obwohl Charkiw an vielen Stellen zerstört ist, hat die größte Druckerei der Region ihre Maschinen wieder angeworfen.
With its sudden capture and quick liberation from Russian forces, the city of Bucha became the greatest example of the torture and looting in the Russian-Ukrainian war. Now the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region has become the newest example after its liberation by Ukrainian forces in their eastern counteroffensive.
A young Ukrainian woman who found herself trapped in her hometown, after it was occupied by Russian soldiers, and spent four months hiding from Russian soldiers has shared the details of her ordeal with Katapult Ukraine.
Despite the Ukrainian army lacking the necessary weapons and 1:3 manpower advantage for a counterattack, Russia still wasn’t prepared for the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Despite the widespread damage they cause and the extraordinary danger they pose to civilians, incendiary munitions are only banned for use in conflicts in a few specific cases.
When discussing plans to restore Ukraine from military devastation with the participation of foreign states, international financial organizations, and multinational companies, the time has come to figure out what the Ukrainian contribution to a project of such a large scale can be, as well as how to setup a construction site of that size.
The Russian military deported at least 555,128 children from the occupied regions of Ukraine to Russia, and introduced a simplified procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for Ukrainian children.
Six months ago, the basements of the schools of occupied Bucha at that time served as a shelter for local residents who hid there from shelling. And now today, the educational process has resumed in these schools and their basements have been equipped to be a safe place to teach children as the school year begins.
Despite the war, the Ukrainian Premier League started their new season on 23rd August. 16 football clubs will compete to hold this year’s title as the best in the country.
Since 2004 when it was introduced by Ukraine’s first president, Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainians have taken the 23rd of August to appreciate their national flag.
83% of Ukrainians believe that Ukrainian should be the only official language of Ukraine.
7% of the Ukrainian population think that Russian can be the co-official language of Ukraine – until February 24, 2022 that number had been 25%.
Infolge der russischen Aggression wurden dieses Jahr 32 Journalist:innen getötet, 16 wurden verletzt. Das sind nur die offiziellen Daten; die Dunkelziffer könnte deutlich höher liegen.
Zum fünften Mal fand am 4. und 5. Juli die Ukraine Reform Conference statt, welche angesichts der aktuellen Lage in der Ukraine und der damit einhergehenden Neufokussierung des Hauptthemas in „Ukraine Recovery Conference“ umbenannt wurde. Während in den vorangegangenen Jahren die Reformen innerhalb der Ukraine thematisiert worden waren, lag der Fokus in diesem Jahr auf dem Wiederaufbau des Landes.
On June 13, the harvest season began in Ukraine. Ukraine has already gathered 1.1 million tons of wheat.
On July 7, Russian shelling started fires in wheat fields in two regions, 20 hectares were burned down.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has caused enormous economic damage to the latter. According to official figures, the damage to the Ukrainian economy due to the war has already reached $600 billion.
A resident of Mariupol told KATAPULT Ukraine how she lived in the city, which was subjected to constant shelling for about a month, and managed to survive.
On the night of July 1, the Russian Army launched a missile attack on the village of Serhiivka, which is located on the Black Sea coast by the city of Odesa. The shells destroyed a nine-story residential building and two recreational facilities. 21 people were killed in the attack. 38 people were injured.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, more than 60 percent of Ukrainian media outlets have lost revenue and have had to reduce their editorial teams.
On June 27, the Russian army launched a missile attack on the Amstor shopping center in the city of Kremenchuk, Poltava region. A massive fire broke out in the building with over a thousand people staying inside at the moment of the attack. It has already been reported that 19 people have died, while the rescue operations continue.
On the night of June 27th, Russia launched a missile attack on the village of Mayaky, located 40 km from Odesa. A huge fire broke out at the site of the explosion. More than 60 private houses were damaged, four completely burned down, and 25 houses rendered unsuitable for living. Eight people have been reported injured, including three-year-old twins.
Das gesellschaftliche Leben fährt in einem Krieg normalerweise herunter. In der Ukraine führt der Krieg jedoch auch dazu, dass Hochzeiten früher als geplant stattfinden.
The State Emergency Situations Service of Ukraine removed a 500-kilogram bomb from the roof of a multi-story building in the residential area of Severnaya Saltovka in Kharkiv region. The bomb was dropped on the city by the Russian invaders back in March.
On June 22nd, (his birthday), Serhiy Prytula announced the collection of 500 million UAH per week to buy three Bayraktars. On June 24th, the fund’s account had already collected 600 million UAH!
Seitdem die russischen Truppen, welche in der Region Charkiw aktiv waren, während der ersten Maihälfte erfolgreich Richtung eigener Staatsgrenze zurückgedrängt werden konnten, hat sich die Lage im Vergleich zu der davor etwas entspannt. Doch wie schauen aktuell der Alltag und die Entwicklungen in der Stadt wie auch an der regionalen Front aus? Denn ruhig mag es vom normalen Lebens- und Wirtschaftsgeschehen her sein, aber noch lange nicht seitens Kriegsaktivitäten.
Two American volunteers who fought on the side of Ukraine were captured by the Russian army, reports The Telegraph. They will face the fate of other foreigners who were sentenced to death by the puppet regime of the Donetsk quasi-republic at the behest of Moscow.
In one of the Ukrainian cities that were under Russian occupation, children found a mine on a playground. It was only by luck that no one was hurt. The State Emergency Service shared news of the shocking find.
The Russian army launched strikes with Kalibr class cruise missiles in Lviv, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky and Chernihiv regions. Ukrainian air defense shot down all four missiles, but six people, including one child, were injured from falling debris.
A resident of Donetsk, who served as a tank gunner in the troops of the unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic, admitted to shelling residential buildings in which there were civilians.
