Thursday, November 2. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information From Ukraine

Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 617.

Local news.

Kherson region. The metropolis of Kherson precocious has undergone regular attacks connected its civilian infrastructure. An onslaught connected nan city's municipal management yesterday killed 1 worker and severely wounded 2 others. These attacks lately person accrued successful some number and intensity.

Poltava region. Russian drones struck an lipid refinery successful nan municipality of Kremenchuk yesterday. The installation caught occurrence and has now been unopen down.

Dnipropetrovsk region. A Russian drone killed a 59-year-old female successful nan colony of Nikopol yesterday. It besides wounded slightest six different civilians and destroyed respective shops and a drugstore successful nan area.

Germany has supplied Ukraine yet different package of subject aid. The transportation included armored unit carriers, reconnaissance drones, chopper defense systems, various vehicles, wintertime clothing and different items. Along pinch Denmark, Germany besides plans to nonstop Ukraine 25 Leopard 1 tanks.

The Ukrainian authorities has launched an acquisition programme called ‘Future Perfect’ arsenic portion of its committedness to found English arsenic nan country's main overseas language. The ‘Future Perfect’ inaugural intends to connection thousands of Ukrainians free entree to integer products and services designed to facilitate English connection learning. Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation, presented its first 2 cardinal components, Promova and Empower, to nan nationalist yesterday. The Promova level grants Ukrainians premium entree to each connection courses for a play of 3 years. Empower software, developed by nan University of Cambridge successful England, is disposable to Ukrainian teachers and students. “The ‘Future Perfect’ programme will beryllium a catalyst for change,” said Fedorov. “We want Ukrainians to pass fluently successful a world language, enabling them to speech experiences and stock innovative ideas pinch nan world.”

World. The authorities governments of Washington, Maryland and Arizona yesterday officially recognized nan Holodomor, virtually “murder by starvation,” arsenic an enactment of genocide carried retired by nan Soviet authorities successful Ukraine during nan 1930s. In accordance pinch their respective decrees, nan 3 states declared November arsenic a period dedicated to remembering nan Ukrainian genocide. “We induce nan Ukrainian organization successful each states to subordinate nan run to commemorate nan victims of nan Holodomor by organizing acquisition events astir nan Soviet regime’s horrific crime against Ukrainians committed 90 years ago,” said Ukraine’s ambassador to nan United States, Oksana Markarova. She pointed retired that nan Victims of Communism Museum successful Washington, D.C., is now hosting an accumulation devoted to nan topic. A caller impermanent gallery, “Holodomor Then; Genocide Now; Justice When,” displays a bid of papers written by Holodomor witnesses and photographs taken by Alexander Weisenberger, who was past successful Ukraine documenting nan famine. “Today successful Ukraine, nan Holodomor remains a achy representation — a reminder of nan country’s vulnerability to some Russian and Soviet aggression, arsenic good arsenic nan value of fighting for freedom. In Russia, nan Kremlin’s ongoing humanities revisionism of Ukraine’s history and personality is intended to whitewash nan crimes of nan Soviet Union and utilized to warrant Russia’s war,” states nan Museum’s opening article.

Culture.

New York is hosting 2 poesy soirées related to Ukraine this month. “How Fire Descends,” scheduled for November 8, will characteristic modern Ukrainian poets responding to nan invasion. On November 11, “A Forest Surrounds Poets” will commemorate Ukrainian poets, specified arsenic Victoria Amelina, Les Kurbas, Pavlo Tychyna, Volodymyr Svidzinsky and others, purged by nan Soviet and Russian regimes, by reciting immoderate of their salient works.

“A Rising Fury”, a documentary by Lesya Kalynska and Ruslan Batytskyi pursuing “two hopeful Ukrainian idealists from nan 2013 serene protestation successful Kyiv to nan full-scale Russian penetration of Ukraine successful 2022” had a constricted theatrical merchandise successful New York’s Cinema Village. While showing Ukraine’s struggle for independency and life successful nan frontlines, nan movie uniquely explores engagement of a Russian typical supplier successful strategical grooming of young Ukrainians to hole them for fighting arsenic separatists successful Donbas anterior to Maidan gyration 2013.

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation is hosting nan “Russian War Crimes” task astatine nan University of Connecticut. The accumulation puts connected show photographs taken successful Ukraine since nan opening of nan Russian penetration successful February, 2022. “It makes nan Western assemblage witnesser nan stories of torture, executions, and bombardments committed by Russians against Ukraine’s work members and civilians,” opportunity nan show's coordinators.

By Daria Dzysiuk, Alan Sacks