The team of the Civil Network OPORA is telling about the life of de-occupied communities: what Russians left behind, and what issues local authorities need to address in the first place to be able to bring back people and normal life. This time, the story is about Snihurivka (Mykolayiv Oblast) that has been under the occupation for eight months. Russians used Snihurivka to continue their advance to Mykolayiv. That is why the de-occupation of the place was a precondition for the liberation of Kherson by the Ukrainian army, last November. 

Almost fully destroyed by the Russians, Mariupol has been under occupation for a year. The Ukrainian information space receives little reports about the life of its inhabitants and the functioning of the infrastructure. However, we can see that Russia is trying to paint a picture of the “reconstruction” in the city. On the bones.

Parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine have been under occupation for more than a year now. Russia is trying to integrate these territories into their own economic space in order to weaken their connections with Ukraine. In particular, the hryvnia came under the strike, as Russia seeks to replace it with the ruble. The occupiers introduced new rules for receiving social benefits and pensions: they can only be available to people who had become citizens of Russia. Recently, Ukrai...

The full-scale invasion of Russia provoked a food crisis in the world. Because of defeats at the front and the failure to seize Ukraine, the aggressor resorted to grain blackmail in order to weaken Western sanctions. The tool of this strategy was the Black Sea Initiative on the export of Ukrainian grain, which extension Russia uses every time to lobby their interests.

Russia is waging an aggressive war against Ukraine, in violation of the rules of war. The enemy army is killing civilians, and obliterating entire cities with rocket and artillery strikes. Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Izyum and Soledar were almost completely destroyed by the invaders. The extent of the war crimes committed by Russians will be definitively understood only after the complete liberation of all the occupied territories. Currently, Ukrainian law enforcement officers are investigating ...

On November, 11, Ukrainian troops liberated the right-bank part of Kherson oblast, including the Oblast center. Since then, stabilization measures have continued in the de-occupied territories, aimed at restoring critical infrastructure that the occupiers were deliberately destroying during their retreat. It is not easy to do so under incessant shelling.

At the end of October, representatives of the occupation administration of Kherson oblast said that they plan to remove about 50–60 thousand residents from 4 right-bank residential neighbourhoods of the oblast to the left bank of the Dnieper and to russia in connection with the preparation of the counter-attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. russians intimidate local residents who already live in an information vacuum, under difficult socio-economic conditions and under constant psychologica...

In September-October, during the counterattack, the Armed Forces liberated part of Kharkiv region captured by russian troops at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. The territory makes almost a third of the region. In addition to war crimes, during the assault the russians used the "scorched land tactics". They destroyed the critical infrastructure and residential buildings of the resisting cities.

Росія, як і Океанія Джорджа Орвелла, теж полюбляє переписувати історію, особливо на захоплених територіях. Це вона робить в анексованому з 2014 року Криму, на захоплених частинах Донецької та Луганської областей, а тепер — на нових окупованих територіях України. У Путіна зрозуміли, що точкою входу до зміни історії є школи, тому українська освіта сьогодні — один із головних об'єктів тиску російських окупантів. Перший місяць навчального року наочно підтвердив, які ідеологічні стратегії обкатуют...

Is there a standard occupation technology that russia implements in different territories of Ukraine? How to distinguish survival from collaborationism? And how can the state preserve the trust of TOTs residents and prevent a gap between those who stayed in the occupation and those who avoided it?

Having destroyed the native homes of millions of Ukrainians, russia has severely restricted Ukrainians from leaving the territories controlled by Ukraine. Instead, the aggressor country often leaves only one cynical option — to go to russia, to the territory where the war, killings and destruction came from. However, for many Ukrainian families, despite they had to pass the "filtration camps", this possibility, although morally difficult, became the only alternative to leaving the war zone. A...

Back in 2014, russia launched an operation to conceal their crimes on the territory of Ukraine. Since February, 2022, its attempts to transfer responsibility for the destroyed peaceful cities to Ukraine have become enormous, and the key tool in this regard is the Investigative Committee (IC) of the russian federation. The agency under the leadership of putin's classmate, Aleksandr Bastrykin, became a factory for the creation of an alternative reality, back in the time of russia's aggression a...