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Poet Lyuba Yakimchuk grew up in the contested Donbas region of Ukraine. After pro-Russian separatists took control of the area in 2014, her family had to flee. And now, the whole country has been invaded. Lyuba Yakimchuk reflects on poetry, war, and the burden of a motherland.

Though Vladimir Putin’s stated that his purpose was to “de-Nazify” Ukraine, his actions actually parallel Nazi aggression in 1941.

Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelenskys Jewish background has been flagged up amid recent comments by Russian president Vladimir Putin. What was said?

For Ukraine’s Jews, the threat of war stirs memories of past horrors

Aleksander Kwaśniewski served as the President of Poland from 1995 to 2005. After the fall of Communism, he became a leader of the left-wing Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland.

President Isaac Herzog hosted the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at his official residence.

In Odessa, Jewish leaders are preparing for the worst: hiring security guards, scoping out bomb shelters and making plans to evacuate if Russia invades the country.

Feb 20, 2022 // More than 100,000 people were murdered by Nazis at the Babyn Yar site near Kyiv, Ukraine from 1941-1944. While international efforts are underway to memorialize the site, it remains almost completely unknown - a tragic blind spot that deserves remedying, writes Diplomatic Courier's Whitney DeVries.

With no architecture to the Holocaust by Bullets, Babyn Yar seeks to achieve a new type of memorialization.

‘Putin is telling us that he wants to destroy us,’ Oleksiy Danilov says.