Olha Smirnitska (1837-1920) was a Ukrainian composer from Zmiiv She studied at the Institute for Noble Maidens the most famous of which are “First Love” and Polish Mazurka Historians say that her music had a significant impact on composer Johann Strauss II Zmiiv City Council got an agreement to transform the building built in 30s of XIX century from the State Property Fund of Ukraine since recently the building became a common property (belonging to the Zmiiv community) “The main condition was to not allow privatization of the property — (the building) has to be used exclusively as a museum exhibition dedicated to Olha Smirnitska’s life and music,” said Zmiiv City Council. A few days ago, Mykhailo Saianyi, director of the Zmiiv local museum, received the key to this building. He’ll supposedly oversee the creation of a new museum. Subscribe to news from Kharkiv, UkraineMost important stories from the frontline region Google Facebook Or Register from Google Register from Facebook Or Website materials are permitted only with an active link to “GWARA MEDIA,” not lower than the third paragraph The use of digital platform content is allowed with textual attribution Content for documentary films and integrated products is permitted The site was modernized with the support of the European Endowment for Democracy in 2023 ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " as the country faces key debates over social policy and national security that could shape its political trajectory The annual report said Russia is using aggressive tactics such as unauthorized airspace incursions and close encounters with NATO ships and aircraft including Iranian-designed Shahed-type drones located about 70 kilometers northwest of Donetsk remains one of the most fiercely contested sectors of the front where Russia has concentrated its main offensive efforts since March  (Updated:  May 6, 2025 11:41 am)Ukraine's drones target Moscow second night in a row, Russian official claims, ahead of Victory Day parade. Debris from one of the drones reportedly fell on the Kashirskoye Highway The reported attack comes just days before Russia's Victory Day parade and three-day "truce." Vice President Mike Pence said Putin "only understands power." About 800 million euros ($905 million) will be allocated for the acquisition and installation of anti-tank mines to deter potential aggression  (Updated:  May 6, 2025 9:36 am)War analysisFrance is sending Ukraine more AASM Hammer bombs — here's what they can do Polish President Andrzej Duda said the United States has tools that can effectively influence the Kremlin arguing that only President Donald Trump has real leverage over Russian President Vladimir Putin The number includes 1,430 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement" by Benjamin Nathans which covers dissent in the Soviet Union and Russia today Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on May 5 announced they had facilitated Russian journalist Ekaterina Barabash's escape from Russia to France after she fled house arrest on April 21 A Russian drone attack on Odesa Oblast on May 5 killed one and caused damage to local infrastructure by Kateryna DenisovaThe view of the Zmiiv thermal power plant in Kharkiv Oblast (Zmiiv thermal power plant of Centrenergo/Facebook)Russian troops destroyed the Zmiiv thermal power plant in Kharkiv Oblast during a recent large-scale attack the state-owned energy company Centrenergo reported on March 29 Russia has intensified its missile and drone strikes against Ukraine's critical infrastructure, destroying a thermal power plant and all the electrical substations in Kharkiv The Zmiiv thermal power plant, among the largest in Kharkiv Oblast, was hit on March 22 during one of the biggest attacks on the country's energy infrastructure since the beginning of the full-scale invasion The attack destroyed all its units and damaged supporting equipment, according to the report The enterprise is currently clearing the rubble and has no access to most of the equipment," Centrenergo said It is unknown how much time and money it will take to rebuild Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko said during his visit to the site He said it may be recovered at the expense of a donor energy support fund As of March 25, about 200,000 households in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-biggest city, were left without electricity, Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov said A hourly blackout schedule has been introduced in the region until March 31 following recent Russian attacks against energy infrastructure Kateryna Denisova works as a News Editor at the Kyiv Independent She previously worked as a news editor at the NV media outlet for four years covering mainly Ukrainian and international politics Kateryna holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv She also was a fellow at journalism schools in the Czech Republic and Germany You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed The relevant statement was made by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office Russian invaders launched two missile strikes on Kharkiv’s Nemyshlianskyi District “One of missiles hit a hotel complex A fire broke out at a car wash located nearby Windows were broken in the neighboring apartment block The other missile hit the ground near one of enterprises in that district,” the report states Russian troops continue to open fire on Kharkiv Region they launched a missile strike on the city of Zmiiv The enemy projectile hit the ground near a health facility the Russian military used the S-300 systems to fire missiles at Kharkiv Region from Russia’s Belgorod Region A reminder that last night Russian troops launched two missile strikes on Kharkiv and one on Zmiiv While citing and using any materials on the Internet links to the website ukrinform.net not lower than the first paragraph are mandatory citing the translated materials of foreign media outlets is possible only if there is a link to the website ukrinform.net and the website of a foreign media outlet Materials marked as "Advertisement" or with a disclaimer reading "The material has been posted in accordance with Part 3 of Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine "On Advertising" No 1996 and the Law of Ukraine "On the Media" No 2023 and on the basis of an agreement/invoice Online media entity; Media identifier - R40-01421 The soldier who escaped from Azovstal – after it fell to the Russians; the argument for seizing Russian funds See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage Catch up with the must-read news and analysisThis article is more than 1 year oldThe soldier who escaped from Azovstal – after it fell to the Russians; the argument for seizing Russian funds See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage Every week we wrap up essential coverage of the war in Ukraine Oleksandr Ivantsov in the ruins of Azovstal Photograph: NoneIt was May 2022 and Oleksandr Ivantsov was trapped The Russians had seized the city of Mariupol Ivantsov and his fellow soldiers had lived in a network of underground shelters Now this grim subterranean existence was coming to an end Vladimir Putin had ordered a blockade so tight “that a fly can’t get through” Under pressure from Kyiv the Ukrainian garrison Or was it? As his battalion prepared to go into Russian captivity, Ivantsov came up with an extraordinary plan Instead of surrendering he would disappear in the hope he could somehow make it back to Ukrainian-controlled territory “I put the probability of success at 1 in 1,000,” the 29-year-old admitted Anastasia Taylor-Lind a Russian Iskander missile struck a bustling pizza restaurant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk a popular spot for local residents and international journalists was at full capacity when the missiles hit Among those present that day was Anastasia Taylor-Lind a British-Swedish poet and photojournalist They were in Kramatorsk to document a long-term project funded by the National Geographic Society which involved reporting on the environmental impact of the war in Donbas Taylor-Lind had spent a decade documenting the war in Donbas but until that moment her encounters with violence had been as an observer bearing witness to its impact on the lives of others This was the first time she had experienced the horrors of war on a bodily level It took her time to process the pain and trauma her response as a poet was to pour her feelings on to paper Taylor-Lind’s poem, published by the Guardian serves as a medium to unravel her fragile fragments of memory arranging them chronologically in the first person and present tense the idea of seizing Russian assets frozen by western countries has re-emerged as a potential solution economists Joseph Stiglitz and Andrew Kosenko wrote Although seizing these assets would boost Ukrainian morale and finances, policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic are wary. As the New York Times recently reported top US officials fear that setting such a precedent would deter other countries from depositing their funds at the New York Federal Reserve or holding them in dollars But the concern that other governments might become wary of keeping their funds in the US for fear of future seizures overlooks some key points Seizing Russia’s frozen assets would not affect other countries’ assets or change the incentives of governments that are not planning a major war western countries are signalling that governments waging brutal wars of aggression can violate international law and simultaneously benefit from it to escape the consequences of their actions G7 leaders should send a clear message: no country can have it both ways Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information Rescue workers and residents clear debris following Russian strikes in Zmiiv “It is clear that the financing needs for Ukraine will be immense,” Calvino who took over leading the funding arm of the European Union earlier this month She added she can’t envisage the US ending its support for Kyiv even as the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency looms Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Russian troops attacked Koropove in the Zmiiv community of the Kharkiv Oblast with at least five Shahed drones The police gathered the fragments of the Shahed drones at the hit sites There is information that all five of them are Geranium-2 [an Iranian loitering munition in the form of an autonomous pusher-prop drone — ed.] the head of the police investigation department added The Russian army carried out at least seven strikes. The Russian attack wounded a 47-year-old security guard, he received medical treatment. The Russian military also damaged a hotel, a restaurant, three cars, residential buildings, a recreation center, and a canteen. Rescuers are eliminating the consequences of the strikes. says Ukrainian MP; Russian warplane ‘accidentally’ drops bomb; Black Sea corridor moves 15m tonnes of cargo Russia targeted Ukraine with dozens of missiles killing at least four civilians early on Monday Two people were killed in the western Khmelnytskyi region a 62-year-old was reported to have been killed the governor of the Kharkiv region said a 63-year-old woman was killed in a strike on a town south of Kharkiv Ukrainian forces destroyed 18 out of 51 missiles launched during the wave of Russian airstrikes on Monday Ukraine’s draft mobilisation law will not conscript women or introduce a lottery deputy chairman of parliament’s defence committee which is is due to consider the law on Tuesday The British former defence secretary Ben Wallace warned his successor that the UK was at risk of “falling behind” in its military support for Ukraine because ministers had yet to announce a military aid budget for 2024-5 A section of railroad near the city of Nizhny Tagil in Russia’s Urals region was hit by a “bang” said the blast on the railway took place close to the station of San-Donato The Swedish prime minister announced that Sweden – despite not yet being a full member of Nato – will send troops to Latvia next year as part of a Canadian-led force to deter Russian attack In the Russian-occupied Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine a Russian warplane accidentally released a bomb on the town of Rubizhne the Moscow-appointed regional occupation head an FAB-250 that carries a high-explosive warhead His comments could not be independently verified Ukraine has exported 15m tonnes of cargo through its Black Sea shipping corridor including 10m tonnes of agricultural goods “Indiscriminately striking” civilians is a war crime because it violates international humanitarian law Pope Francis was quoted as saying in a speech referencing conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine said that Russia has “left people homeless” through its attacks on Ukraine a reality of war she says “can only be changed by weapons” by Kateryna HodunovaPhoto for illustrative purposes The Trypillia thermal power plant in the city of Ukrainka in Kyiv Oblast on Nov (Dmitri Tovstonog/Wikimedia Commons)A Russian attack overnight on April 11 destroyed the Trypillia Thermal Power Plant in the city of Ukrainka in Kyiv Oblast the chair of Ukraine's state energy company Centerenergo's supervisory board Russian forces launched a massive aerial attack across Ukraine overnight on April 11 targeting critical infrastructure in multiple regions Kyiv Oblast had been under attack with drones for over five hours. The Kyiv Oblast military administration reported as of around 7 a.m local time that drone strikes caused a fire at a critical infrastructure facility Centerenergo later announced that the Russian attack against the Trypillia plant led to the destruction of 100% of the company's generation capacity Russian troops previously destroyed the company's Zmiiv Thermal Power Plant during the March 22 strike on Kharkiv Oblast Another Centerenergo's thermal power plant in the city of Svitlodarske in Donetsk Oblast has been under Russian occupation since July 2022 "It is a dark day in Centerenergo's history," the statement read The Trypillia Thermal Power Plant was the main electricity supplier to Kyiv The Russian strike led to a large-scale fire in the turbine house of the plant, according to Hota All the plant's workers who were on the shift during the attack survived Ukrainka's Mayor Oleksandr Turenko subsequently called on local citizens to make water stocks and charge all the devices without clarifying the consequences of the attack Emergency services are currently working at the impact scene to extinguish the fire DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company, previously said Russia damaged its two thermal power plants during overnight strikes on April 11 without specifying their location Energy infrastructure was also targeted in Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, and Kharkiv oblasts Kateryna Hodunova is a News Editor at the Kyiv Independent She previously worked as a sports journalist in several Ukrainian outlets and was the deputy chief editor at Suspilne Sport Kateryna covered the 2022 Olympics in Beijing and was included in the Special Mentions list at the AIPS Sport Media Awards She holds a bachelor's degree in political journalism from Taras Shevchenko University and a master's degree in political science from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Russia attacks Kharkiv oblast often because of its proximity to the border and the frontline. Since September, strikes on the eastern and southeastern parts of the region ramped up as Russia intensified its offensive on the Kupiansk axis.  At around 01:40 a.m., Russians attacked Bohodukhiv, injuring an 18-year-old and a 16-year-old, who got an acute stress reaction. Crushing of the Geran-2 drone, a Shahed-type drone, destroying an outbuilding, damaging five houses, a tractor, and a car.  Then, at 04:30 a.m., a Russian attack on Kupiansk, presumably from multiple rocket launchers, injured two men, 46 and 47, and the latter was hospitalized. The strike destroyed a house, garage, and damaged two residential buildings.  On Feb 13 at 2:30 p.m., Russia hit a residential neighborhood in Kozacha Lopan from artillery. The attack hit a house with an 83-year-old woman inside—the building caught fire, and the woman was hospitalized with moderate injuries.  The Crime Index for Eastern Europe is an assessment of the overall level of crime in a particular city or country Numbeo is a crowdfunded online database of consumer prices The website was founded in April 2009 by former Google employee Mladen Adamovic to enable users to share and compare information about the cost and quality of life in countries and cities Russian drone attack in Kharkiv Oblast injured two people. Russians hit Zmiiv in the Chuhuiv district with Shahed drones, wounding two 52-year-old and 61-year-old men. One of the victims is in the hospital, and the other received treatment on the spot.