Author: Aleksander Palikot / RFE/RL

Ahead of Ukraine’s Independence Day on August 24 and six months after Russia launched its large-scale invasion of the country, opinion polls indicate growing unity on key issues among Ukrainians and a widespread unwillingness to make any territorial concessions to Moscow. “Ukrainians are united like never before, but it’s a hard-won unity,” Anton Hrushetskiy, deputy...

KYIV – “Grenade!” As recently as last year, the shout would have been frighteningly out of place at Kyiv’s EBSH sports club – a gym like those in well-heeled neighborhoods worldwide, frequented by upwardly mobile members seeking to get fit, build muscle or lose weight, and perhaps get their weekly dose of adrenaline. These days,...