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HISTORICAL FACTS: Taras shevchenko - The Untold Story

The puppet shows bringing storytelling and solace to bomb shelters in Ukraine

As war threatens to erase everyday life in Ukraine, artists have turned to puppetry, one of the oldest forms of storytelling. Light enough to travel, intimate enough to gather a crowd and able to capture the attention of children, puppet shows have become resilient tools of resistance, support and relief…

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“All who believe in freedom and sense the jeopardy we Europeans now find ourselves in are not sleeping easily on this, the third anniversary of the invasion”: U2 send message of support and music to President Zelenskyy and Ukraine

Bono reads out poem by Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko

MusicRadar

Trump's tariffs expose Ukraine's steel industry to another war

One of Ukraine’s largest steel plants lies in the country’s industrial east, where Russia’s 3-year invasion of its neighbor threatens to throttle production at any moment

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‘Hearing Russian brings me pain’: how war has changed Ukrainian literature

Many writers and publishers have ditched Russian language in favour of Ukrainian in response to invasion

The Guardian - UK

Pushkin must fall: monuments to Russia’s national poet under threat in Ukraine

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

The Guardian - UK

In Russia's war against Ukraine, one of the battlegrounds is language itself

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.

The Conversation

What can you say when a Ukrainian bishop in Kyiv asks ‘has God forgotten us’?

On a visit with leaders from many religions, we saw so much to test even the strongest faith, writes Jonathan Wittenberg, rabbi of New North London Synagogue

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As bombs fall, a Calif. librarian rushed to preserve Ukraine’s cultural legacy

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The night Russian bombs began falling, Dr. Ulia Gosart was 6,000 miles from her native Ukraine.

Tribune News Service

Russians lay flowers at improvised memorials to commemorate Dnipro dead

Russians in St Petersburg and Moscow have been laying flowers at improvised memorials to the victims of a Russian missile attack on a nine-storey apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

Reuters

Life in a Ukrainian town: rampaging Russians, power cuts, a visit by Banksy

Borodianka was largely reduced to rubble by the Russian invasion. It's become a symbol of the devastation inflicted by the Russian forces, and attracted a recent visit by the artist Banksy.

WEKU

Sandbag sculpture: how Kyiv is shielding statues from Russian bombs

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

The Guardian - UK

‘This only unites us’: defiance as deadly strikes bring war back to Kyiv

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

The Guardian - UK

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

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

The Guardian - AU

‘I was born here and I’ll die here’: liberated Ukrainians tell of life under occupation

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

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U2 declare they 'stand with Ukraine' as country marks 31st anniversary of Ukraine's Independence Day

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

Foreign Policy

From Pushkin to Putin: Russian Literature’s Imperial Ideology

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

The Guardian - UK

Back in the USSR: Lenin statues and Soviet flags reappear in Russian-controlled cities

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

The Guardian - UK

Writers in bombed out Kharkiv seek inspiration in historical resistance

‘It feels like history is repeating itself,’ says local poet as Russian bombs fall

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The Independent UK

AP PHOTOS: Day 32: Signs of resolve and collective grief

A 16-meter-high bronze monument to Taras Shevchenko, a national hero in Ukraine, survived World War II. Ukrainians have shielded it with countless layers of sandbags in hopes it also will survive Russian attacks.

The Guardian - AU

Zelenskiy promises to work for new sanctions against Russia – as it happened

Volodymyr Zelenskiy says new round of negotiations ahead but that deal would have to be subject to referendum; Joe Biden rejects suggestion he was calling for regime change in Moscow

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine latest updates: Kyiv willing to discuss neutrality

Ukraine news from March 27: Ukrainian president says he is prepared to discuss Russia’s neutrality demand.

The Guardian - UK

Kharkiv citizens: ‘They can bomb us for as long as they want: we will withstand it’

In the second most shelled city in Ukraine, defiant residents are set on keeping their beloved city running

Reuters

Russia reframes war goals as Ukrainians advance near Kyiv

Moscow signalled on Friday it was scaling back its ambitions in Ukraine to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists in the East as Ukrainian forces went on the offensive to recapture towns outside the capital Kyiv.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ukrainian artist-poet born more than 200 years ago touched on themes strikingly relevant today

Show featuring the work of Taras Shevchenko planned for April 8 after Tuesday’s fundraiser.

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