Category: Lukian Selskyi

June 2025—the traditional Pride month—found Ukraine caught in a vortex of opposing trends. On the one hand, the very center of Kyiv had just hosted the first Equality March since the start of the full-scale war: shorter, held under heavy security, yet nonetheless public and loud. On the other, Draft Law No. 9103 on civil partnerships...

This year the United States celebrated the Fourth of July far more quietly than even last year. The scale normally associated with Independence Day in ordinary households, in some places, faded almost completely. Indeed, surveys show that most Americans admitted to more modest celebrations...

The night seven American B-2 Spirits flew halfway around the planet and, under the code name Midnight Hammer, blasted Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan instantly dominated U.S. news sites and TV studios. Next to the infrared footage of bunker-busters, the strikes on Kyiv all but disappeared from the feed...

American television no longer buzzes with the word “Ukraine” the way it did in past years. The Ukrainian front has slipped, almost noiselessly, into an information vacuum: drone raids over Kyiv, devastation across the country, and the deaths of hapless civilians are mentioned only in passing, tucked behind segments about gasoline prices...

The American political season, coinciding with the onset of summer, reveals a dangerous concentration of domestic upheavals: massive “No Kings” rallies alongside a military parade in Washington created a sharp—and television-spectacular—dichotomy between popular protests and imperial rituals...

The Ukrainian community in the United States is, without doubt, one of the most mobilized and generous when it comes to rallies, volunteer work, or donations to the land of...

Ukrainian military have once again shared their calculations: Russian losses in manpower have exceeded 980,000 people. The pace at which Vladimir Putin grinds down his own army suggests that already in the first third of the summer the world will hear a psychologically shocking figure – one million killed

In the early hours of May 18, Russia launched 273 drones at Ukraine—the largest single attack in the history of the Russian-Ukrainian war. All signs suggest that this grim record will soon be broken...

“I am Katya!”—three defiant words that ignite the pulse of The Last Lullaby, James Hodson’s searing new novel about a Ukrainian girl abducted from Mariupol and stripped of everything that made her whole...