12 key Ukrainska Pravda articles of 2025

War in 2025 didn’t slow down. It has shape-shifted. These 12 articles are Ukrainska Pravda’s attempt to pin down a year that refuses to sit still. They take you from underground metro... Read more »

Kyiv Dominates Ukraine’s Digital Governance Ranking

According to a recent study by Transparency International (TI) Ukraine, Ukraine’s capital Kyiv remains the undisputed leader in the country’s digital transformation. Kyiv has demonstrated the highest level of “digital maturity” among... Read more »

‘Medieval raids’ — fear, uncertainty in Ukraine’s Sumy Oblast border region

A Ukrainian army soldier drives a buggy in a frontline area of Sumy Oblast, Ukraine on June 28, 2025. (Andre Luis Alves / Anadolu via Getty Images) As Ukraine’s future is debated... Read more »

A Guide to the City’s Most Festive Corners

As the holidays get closer, Kyiv starts to feel like a small winter fairy-tale town. Even with blackouts and missile attacks, the city still finds a way to shine. Streets light up,... Read more »

Poll shows 55% of Russians expect war to end in 2026 — and want life back to ‘normal’

More than half of Russians, 55%, expect the war against Ukraine to end in 2026 and hope for a return to what they describe as “normal life,” according to a December poll... Read more »

Americans Back Ukraine, See Russia as Enemy – But Want Endgame

WASHINGTON DC – The official line coming out of last week’s US-European talks on Ukraine peace was one of resolve: allies unified – despite how aggressively Russia is trying to split the... Read more »

Ukrainians Plan Holiday Spending Carefully, Prefer Meaningful Gifts – Deloitte

Despite the fourth year of Russia’s full-scale war, Ukrainians continue to prepare for the holiday season, with 75% planning Christmas shopping this year, up from 65% in 2024, according to a new... Read more »

the song that made the world speak about Ukraine

The Ukrainian Republican Capella with conductor Oleksandr Koshyts (C) in Prague, then-Czechoslovakia, in 1919. (Central State Archives of Higher Authorities and Administration of Ukraine) About the author: Mariana Hirniak is a journalist... Read more »

Entire oblasts in Ukraine ‘almost completely without power’ after mass Russian missile, drone attack

Editor’s note: This is a developing story and is being updated. At least three people have been killed, and 12 others injured in a massive Russian missile and drone attack on multiple... Read more »

What Was Agreed in Budapest and What Should Ukraine’s Real Security Guarantees Be?

On December 5, 1994, Ukraine signed the Budapest Memorandum, which enshrined a number of mutual obligations that are clearly not being fulfilled, or not being fully fulfilled, by the parties. Against the... Read more »