chernihiv

A group of high-school graduates in Ukraine’s Chernihiv came into global spotlight when photographer Stanislav Senyk photographed them on their graduation day using the ruins of the city as a haunting backdrop. Senyk said that the story he…

Eighty-seven people were killed in a Russian air strike in the town of Desna last Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, in what would be Ukraine’s biggest military death toll in a single strike of the war so far. On…

Issued on: 23/05/2022 - 09:42 In the first weeks of Russia’s Ukraine invasion, residents of Chernihiv were shaken by heavy gunfire followed by billowing black smoke.…

CHERNIHIV, Ukraine — Throughout the entire five-week siege of Chernihiv, Father Mykhailo travelled to his central city church every day to hold mass.Nothing would deter him. Not even when the church was shelled by the Russian army did…

One is a Nova Scotia lobster fisherman who delivers supplies to frontline towns. The other is an entrepreneur from Toronto who enlisted in Ukraine’s foreign legion.Lex Brukovskiy and Igor Volzhanin might have different roles, but they are…

MALA ROHAN, Ukraine: Russian forces bombarded the outskirts of Kyiv and a besieged city in northern Ukraine on Wednesday (Mar 30), a day after promising to scale down operations there in what the West dismissed as a ploy to regroup by…

Ukrainian officials reported shelling around the capital Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv on Wednesday (Mar 30), despite a promise by Moscow to scale down military operations there. Kyiv's deputy mayor, Mykola Povoroznyk, told…

Negotiators from Russia and Ukraine indicated progress in conflict talks in Turkey on Tuesday, so much so that a future meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy cannot be ruled…

Nights are spent huddling underground from Russian strikes pounding their encircled city into rubble. Daylight hours are devoted to hunting down drinkable water and braving the risk of standing in line for the little food available as…

LVIV, UKRAINE: Like many residents of Ukraine's besieged city of Chernihiv, linguistics scholar Ihar Kazmerchak spends his nights in a bomb shelter and starts his day lining up for the little potable water authorities have left to hand out.…