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Locations

Irpin: Vitali's tour through his destroyed home

In the northeast of Irpin, a residential area was particularly affected by the fighting in the Ukraine war. Vitali shows what happened in his hometown.

People

Leonid Kucheruk has the calendar matrix in his head

The Ukrainian Leonid Kucheruk has a penchant for calendar days. He knows the day of the week for any date in his head. He is just as fit in chess, with history and politics.

Projects

Module Club Dnipro: DJs at the front

Music and parties have been out of the question since the Russian large-scale attack on Ukraine. Members of the Module Club Dnipro fight for their freedom on the front lines.

Locations

Kharkiv: Victory on ruins

In Kharkiv, the Ukrainian army made an important interim victory. But the price is high, as a site visit shows.

People

Adam's escape from Mariupol

Adam survived the Russian siege of Mariupol. He spent a month in the war-ravaged harbor city. Here he tells about his experiences.

Projects

Vinnytsia: Ukrainian humanitarian aid hub

Donations from all over the world are received in a warehouse in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. A local organization takes care of the distribution.

Topics

Why foreign farmers are coming back to Ukraine

Like many foreign colleagues, Michael Dihlmann continues to work as a farmer in Ukraine despite the war. The risk of a global food shortage weighs more heavily on the industry.

Topics

Nusaybin: In constant fear of the state

The Turkish city Nusaybin is predominantly inhabited by Kurdish people and located directly on the closed border with Syria. However, people suffer more from the war that their own government is waging against the local population.

Topics

Syria's torture prisons

An arrest by the intelligence in Syria can be equal to a death sentence. We spoke to three torture victims who were imprisoned back in the 1980s and have since fled to Turkey.

People

Sergey Panashchuk: Reluctant war reporter from Odesa

Sergey Panashchuk works as a journalist in Odesa. In recent years he has tried to stay as far away from the war in Donbass as possible. Now the fighting has come to his city.

People

Juli Karzanova reports from Chernihiv: "We are dying here: for no reason at all"

For several weeks, the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv near the border with Belarus has been under non-stop Russian attacks. Juli Karzanova stayed and reports on everyday life in the war.

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"Unterkunft Ukraine": Hundreds of thousands of beds remain unused

The "Unterkunft Ukraine" initiative wanted to find hundreds of thousands of places to sleep for refugees. But the criticism of the voluntary bed donors is growing.