Russia has declared a new illegal annexation of Ukrainian territories by grabbing 15% of Ukrainian lands that it occupied in the past 8 years. This is the biggest annexation of territory in Europe since World War II. Ukrainians responded by continuing their counter-offensive and almost immediately taking control of the strategic town of Lyman in the "annexed" Donetsk Region. Learn more from the weekly digest of our “Explaining Ukraine” podcast. Hosts: Volodymyr Yermolenko, Ukrainian philosopher and journalist, chief editor of UkraineWorld.org, and Tetyana Ogarkova, Ukrainian scholar and journalist, in charge of international outreach at the Ukraine Crisis Media Centre. Support us at patreon.com/ukraineworld
This material was prepared with financial support from the International Renaissance Foundation.
