🇺🇦 Hanna Kostiv

Vanderbilt University'26 History and Economics

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Ukraine has quietly pulled off one of its most significant counteroffensive operations of 2026.

Over several months, Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps pushed back Russian forces north of Lyman and cut down a Russian salient that had taken Moscow roughly a year to build.

OSINT analysts estimate Ukraine has retaken around 150–200+ km², with Russian forces pushed back toward the Zherebets River in parts of the sector. The operation has reduced the threat to Lyman and complicated Russia’s attempts to advance toward Sloviansk and the northern Donbas.

[Regional Center for Human Rights @RchrSev]

The Russian Federation is turning the occupied territories of Ukraine into a space where the law no longer protects individuals, but instead becomes a tool of punishment.
Over the past six months, our team has presented two analytical reports:

[Roman Yeremenko @Roal_Yr]

The russians keep starving whole city to death. Translations from the screenshots below.

[Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz]

Summer in Ukraine

[Ostap Yarysh @OstapYarysh]

🚨 Security camera footage from a local café captured the moment a Russian glide bomb hit downtown Sumy, Ukraine. At least five people were killed, including a child, and more than 30 were injured. Horrifying.

Video: @suspilne_news

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

The girl who was killed by russian glide bomb in Kharkiv today came to the city for her university graduation.
​A graduation robe lies next to her body...

[Ostap Yarysh @OstapYarysh]

🚨 Horrific scenes from Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. A Russian drone struck a residential neighborhood in broad daylight, killing at least two people and injuring 15 others. Russia knows it cannot win on the battlefield, so it continues to unleash terror on civilians.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

🚨 UPD: At least 22 people, including two children, were killed and 130 wounded in Russia’s massive overnight aerial assault across Ukraine.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

🕯️ Four years ago, Russia struck Kramatorsk train station as civilians waited to evacuate.

61 people were killed and 121 others wounded, all of which where waiting on evacuation. Ukraine will neither forget nor forgive this act of violence.

[Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 @andrii_sybiha]

Horrific Russian terrorist act in Nikopol, a deliberate strike on an ordinary bus. Already 4 killed and 16 injured civilians.

Such brutal war crimes require strong responses of the international community.

Russian criminals must face pressure, isolation, and accountability.

[Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz]

assad turning his vpn on and seeing zelensky in damascus

[Ostap Yarysh @OstapYarysh]

🚨 Russia has just hit Lviv’s historic old city with a drone. The attack is still underway.

[Ukraine / Україна @Ukraine]

Happy Stalin’s Death Day 🌷

[Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina]

On the morning of February 20, 2014, we began receiving calls on the Euromaidan SOS hotline. People were calling to report that peaceful demonstrators were being shot on the Maidan. Our volunteers went to morgues, churches, and hospitals to document information about those killed and wounded. We were sent photos of the bodies of the dead, their documents, and descriptions of their personal belongings.

We were in a great hurry because we didn't know how much time we had left to identify everyone who had been killed by pro-Russian Yanukovych's regime before they would kill us. 

Around that time, my husband called me. He said he was on Maidan, that he loved me, and said goodbye. I have never been so scared in my life. 

A few days after the shootings on Maidan, we were preparing the first mobile group to go to Crimea. And then I plunged headlong into the documentation of abductions, torture, sexual violence, and murders of civilians in the occupied territories. I never cried over those days in February. There was simply no time.

May the memory of all those who did not return live on. Strength to their families.

[Roman Hryshchuk @grishchukroma]

Three people have now been confirmed dead following a russian strike on a passenger train.

My condolences to the families of the victims.

[maksym eristavi. @maksymeristavi]

settler colonialism.

[Doug Klain @DougKlain]

2000 Meters to Andriivka was snubbed by the Oscars, but it's still the best documentary of modern warfare. When the soldiers who survived stood up after the film's premier in Kyiv last summer, they received a 15 minute standing ovation.

Watch here 👇 https://t.co/MV75jZbLVy

[🌰 Alina @govorytkyiv]

blade runner 2026 [kyiv edition]

[Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina]

Russians don’t stop killing civilians