Four decades ago, the criminal negligence of the Soviet leadership led to the largest technological disaster in human history. Both during the USSR and today, the Kremlin exploits the tragedy at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant as a tool of manipulation. Its mouthpieces attempt to absolve the system of responsibility for the accident: they blame the plant’s personnel, pose as “hostages of the regime and the KGB” alongside other affected countries, and openly lie about well‑known facts, labeling them as “Chornobyl myths.”

The War Archive has already collected about 37 million unique media files documenting Russia’s war against Ukraine. Founded by the NGO Docudays UA and the company Infoscope in March 2022, the initiative preserves a wide spectrum of materials that capture Russian war crimes, combat operations, and life during the war. The archive also includes interviews with eyewitnesses of wartime events, recorded by the War Archive team.

The beginning of May was marked by an escalation of Russian terror against Ukraine’s civilian population. In just two days, May 4 and 5, at least 41 people were killed and more than 180 injured. The most extensive destruction struck Merefa in Kharkiv region, Zaporizhzhia, Kramatorsk, and Dnipro. Beyond residential neighborhoods and enterprises, enemy targets included a kindergarten in Sumy and an administrative building in Chernihiv. Deliberate strikes continue against critical infrastructure and facilities of Ukrzaliznytsia. While performing their professional duties, two State Emergency Service rescuers and three employees of Naftogaz heroically lost their lives as a result of a treacherous repeated strike.

For five years, the team of the NGO “After Silence” has been collecting a photo archive from the time of World War II. Some of the images are donated for permanent preservation by private individuals, but most are found and purchased through online auctions and flea markets. The collection now includes more than a thousand such photographs.

In the book *100 Days of War*, photographer Ihor Chekachkov rejected traditional war reportage photography. He focused instead on reflection and intimacy to convey the atmosphere of the first months of Russia’s full‑scale invasion of Ukraine.

Enemy terror in Odesa region continues: Russians carried out three attacks on the regional center and seriously damaged the district hospital in Izmail. In Kherson region, in addition to constant threats from the air, almost daily remote mining of civilian areas is recorded, according to the regional administration. Over the weekend, Russians struck western regions of Ukraine with drones. The enemy deliberately destroys energy facilities, ports, administrative buildings, gas stations, and public transport. In total, over the week Ukraine was attacked by about 1,600 Russian strike drones, nearly 1,100 guided aerial bombs, and three missiles, President Volodymyr Zelensky reported.