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‘We’ve learned so much from the Ukrainians’ – retired Lt. Gen....

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"We've had to relearn a lot about fighting a peer adversary, such as the Russians. We've learned so much from the Ukrainians.I've never...

Silver Finger-Ring from 12th century Kyiv in the British Museum

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Finger-ring, Kyivan Rus' / Kyivan Rus', Ukraine, Street of the Three Saints | The British Museum Images Silver finger-ring; bezel a cast disc; nielloed foliate...

Border between Muscovy and Ukraine in 1654 described by Syrian chronicler...

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"...Having travelled other five miles, over wild deserts and through extensive forests entirely destitute of water, in the course of which progress we had...

Wayne Gretsky & Other UKEs: Documentary on Ukrainians in NHL

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=85&v=JqX5HAzyMWE

Ukraine reactivates unique S-300V1 strategic air defence system

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The unique features of S-300V1 air defense system consist in that is the world’s only truly mobile Anti Ballistic Missile system. The S-300V...

Gog and Magog of the Bible. Sviatoslav the Brave and the...

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Old Testament, Book of Ezekiel, 38, 1-3. "And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face toward Gog,...

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Wayne Gretzky during his ‘United For Ukraine’ speech: My Grandmother always...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF54M2vXwS0&t=14s

Symbolism of the Sabre Olexandr Usyk raised after his rematch with...

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"On Saturday night in Riyadh, Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk defeated Tyson Fury by unanimous decision to retain his WBO, WBC, and WBA world heavyweight titles. Following...

Ukraine Is Building a Spaceplane for…Saudi Arabia?, – Popular Mechanics

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https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a18212031/ukraine-saudi-arabia-space-plane/

In August of 1937, Moscow demolished 12th-century St. Michael’s Cathedral in...

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St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is situated on the central hill of Kyiv overlooking the Dnieper River and the northern part of Ukraine's capital. It was...

Leonid Shavrey received the highest radiation dosage among all Chornobyl Firefighters....

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Per Wikipedia page, Leonid M. Shavrey was a Firefighter from the nuclear power plant's fire station (ВПЧ-2). Leonid was among the first firemen to...

Ukrainian Premium Dish

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The full story behind John Steinbeck's quote can be read here. Why borscht is a Ukrainian meal and not Russian is explained here. Borscht...

Russia is like a bloated toad ready to explode

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A training center in Tambov, Russia, hung a banner showing a 'Russian empire' that included all of central and eastern Europe, a re-divided Germany,...

‘Molotov Cocktail’ was a pejorative response to Molotov’s blatant lie that...

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Bombing of Helsinki in World War II - "The first bombing of Helsinki occurred the very day Finland was invaded on 30 November 1939....

Odesa, the craddle of Israeli culture, enjoys a Jewish Rennaissance

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The history of Odessa is also the history of Tel Aviv. Long before the State of Israel was founded, the Jewish community in...

Stalin revived Russian Orthodox Church to better control Ukraine

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Kathryn David, a historian with the Office of the Historian, US Department of State: "In September 1943, as the tide of the Second World...

Catherine II brought German Mennonites to Ukraine. A century later they...

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Mennonites are a group of Anabaptist Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Reformation. The name Mennonites is derived from the excommunicated Roman Catholic chaplain Menno Simons (1496–1561) from Friesland, part of the Holy Roman...

Scythian Heracles and Medusa gold plates from Chmyreva Barrow in Ukraine

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"Harness and cars were decorated with all imaginable metal plates of gold or bronze. Especially important were the frontlets and cheek ornaments on the...