Every concert and show now features an auction to support the army. Two years into the invasion, they have become ever more inventive, surreal – and personal, says Ukrainian writer Oleksandr Mykhed
At the beginning of the war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine simply could not successfully defend the south, and the foundations of this painful failure had been laid since 2014.
Military personnel of the Armed Forces have kept a log of landmine inspections on the Crimean Isthmus, and the last inspections took place on 15 February 2022, nine days before the full-scale Russian invasion began.
The State Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine (SBI) is conducting examinations and interrogating the commanders of Ukraine's Armed Forces in a case about the defence of Kherson Oblast in the south of Ukraine in 2022.
At the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there were about 1,500 military personnel to defend the country's south, mostly in Kherson Oblast, while the Russians had up to 20,000 people and a 20-fold advantage in equipment.