A few links for your Friday…
Update to the ‘Five Places’ piece is this nice highlight of ‘Paris’ on Yaroslav Mudroho.
Documentary about Kharkiv artists wins the grand jury prize at Sundance!
Position is for an Elementary School Teacher, full-time in Kyiv.
The investigation into the damage and the type of weapon used in the attack is underway. According to the mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov, Russians hit the suburbs of the city.
HOLY CRAP!
I’m told by Ukrainian govt source that reports of the firing of top general Valery Zaluzhny look to be true. We await confirmation by presidential order - but this appears to be a done deal.
— Oliver Carroll (@olliecarroll) January 29, 2024
UPDATE 1 Contradicting reports at this point, stay tuned.
UPDATE 2 OK looks like it was a disinfo-op…
Every Monday we will try to post a tweet asking for donations or support. If you have a charity you would like to feature on this page, please let us know through the Kharkiv Expats Facebook Group.
While it may seem a little wild that some requests for donations are going directly to the units fighting at the front, it is what it is until other governments (cough cough, US Congress) can organize and get Ukraine what it needs to win the war.
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BUH-BYE PUSHKINSKAYA… Kharkiv City council voted to rename ‘Pushkinskaya’ street to ‘Grigori Skovorodi’ street, so as to continue de-Russification of the city. In all 65 streets were renamed in the resolution, you can read about most of them here in Ukrainian.
In which we collect a few English-language articles from around the area:
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