The sites listed are offered as generally reliable news sources related to the war.
Below those sites are articles recommended by people in the community of Compassion for Ukraine
Kyiv Independent: https://kyivindependent.com/
Institute for the Study of War: https://www.understandingwar.org/
Meduza, a Russian & English language independent news site, based in Latvia: https://meduza.io/en/live/2022/06/27/news-feed
Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/browse/view-allIt .
From Yana: this email newsletter with latest Ukraine news has been a great information resource.
This is a link to their news page:
https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/all-news/
And below is the link to the page to sign up for their newsletter
https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/subscribe-for-our-latest-news/
Current map of events on the battlefield in detail. The source is Ukrainian. https://deepstatemap.live/en#
Novaya Gazeta Europe (New Newspaper Europe)
https://novayagazeta.eu/themes/ukraine_en
This was established by the Russian opposition journalists who had to flee when the war started and are working in the west now.
Articles are often in depth analysis of what is happening in Russia.
About a camp for children who have lost parents, including art therapy etc.
He Survived the Invasion. What He Really Wanted Was a Friend.
During the war, a Ukrainian boy lost his home, his father and his friends. Could he find new buddies at a camp in the mountains?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-mountain-camp.html
Daughters of Ukraine: Women on the Front Line
Documentary 360 - ON THE EDGE
"The number of women in the Ukrainian military has soared since the start of the Russian invasion. We follow these soldiers as they face the enemy and their own growing sense of despair."
Broadcast on April 26, 2025 / Available until April 26, 2026
Here is the link: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/4001469/
Offered by Mark T
contributed by Chris
Video shared by Vegan on July 11th
The Ukrainian Schoolmaster Teaching History to His Invaders
Vitalii Dribnytsia engages with Russians online to correct Kremlin propaganda about Ukraine. Over time, he has come to realize his more important audience is Ukrainians themselves.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/world/europe/ukraine-history-russian-falsehoods.html
Articles on disinformation, 2/2024
https://news.yahoo.com/washington-post-russia-conducts-disinformation-212111042.html
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum talks about the rise of authoritarianism and nationalism around the world.
Ezra Klein interview
What’s Really Going On in Russia?
The Russia scholar Stephen Kotkin discusses how Russia’s war in Ukraine and the recent Wagner mutiny are shattering Putin’s ‘mystique of power.’
Political risks rise for Putin as Ukraine’s counteroffensive begins
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/10/putin-political-risks-ukraine-counteroffensive/
‘I work, then I cry’: Exhausted medics near Bakhmut fight for every life”
https://kyivindependent.com/i-work-then-i-cry-exhausted-medics-near-bakhmut-fight-for-every-life/
https://snyder.substack.com/p/prigozhins-march-on-moscow?
The Nova Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine Ten guidelines for writing about catastrophe June 7, 2023
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-nova-kakhovka-dam-in-ukraine?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Gratitude to Ukraine article https://snyder.substack.com/p/gratitude-to-ukraine
On the destruction (and emergence) of Ukrainian culture; Russian propaganda, genocide... https://snyder.substack.com/p/of-sanctions-and-silencings?
Documenting Ukraine project https://www.iwm.at/program/documenting-ukraine
"The making of Modern Ukraine" course series by Timothy Snyder, from YaleCourses
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz_1Mx1MaO6sw_
Lessons from Ukrainian history - see video below (on media coverage and its influence)
Media coverage in times of crises: Lessons from the past and ideas for tomorrow | Timothy Snyder
Heather Cox Richardson newsletter posts related to Ukraine
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-24-2023
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-21-2023
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-20-2023
If you are interested, the link below goes to a homepage with a subscribe button at the bottom. There are free and paid options.
"My country has fallen out of time": Russian author Mikhail Shishkin’s letter to an unknown Ukrainian
“You will need courage to not get tired of thinking of other people’s suffering,” Muratov said to the audience.
Muratov won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for his work to protect freedom of expression in Russia.
https://universe.byu.edu/2023/02/28/nobel-peace-prize-winner-speaks-at-byu/
In the Free Russia Legion, soldiers repelled by Vladimir Putin’s invasion have taken arms against their home country, engaged in some of the most heated fighting in the war.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/12/world/europe/russian-legion-ukraine-war.html
On strategy / moving away from "red line" thinking
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/01/opinion/putin-russia-ukraine-war-strategy.html
On the experience of Russians opposed to the war
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/28/europe/russian-opposition-ukraine-war-intl-cmd/index.html
The End of the New Peace
Vladimir Putin is pushing humanity toward an era of war that might be worse than anything we have seen before. It could threaten the very survival of our species.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/putin-russian-ukraine-war-global-peace/672385/
Philosopher José Antonio Marina, article on desire and emotions that shape human history