Konotop 1659: how Ukraine and allies defeated Moscow
On June 29, 1659, a battle took place near Konotop, which the Moscow historical tradition long preferred to bypass with cautious silence. On this day, the troops of the Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky, together with allies, inflicted a heavy defeat on the Moscow army, which came to Ukrainian land not as a temporary partner, but […]
How the Israeli Embassy was drawn into an information operation against Ukraine: ‘Nazi salute’ on Maidan in Kyiv
The story with a video showing several dozen young people with covered faces demonstrating a Nazi salute on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv has become not just another scandal in Ukrainian social networks. It quickly turned into an international issue because the Embassy of Israel in Ukraine reacted to it. For Israel, such a topic cannot […]
Lviv, Memory and Lem’s Cosmos: How Hesed-Arie Brought the Great Sci-Fi Writer Back to the City of His Childhood
On June 30, 2026, at the VEBF club “Hesed-Arie” a program took place “The City of the Lion in the Life and Works of Stanisław Lem”, dedicated to the 105th anniversary of the birth of Stanisław Lem — one of the most famous European science fiction writers, thinkers of the future, and authors whose books […]
Ukraine has become the key to new European security: what is important for Israel to understand
In Europe, the very logic of security is changing. Ukraine no longer appears only as a country that asks for help, awaits EU membership, and depends on the decisions of Brussels, Washington, or individual European capitals. After more than four years of full-scale war, it has become one of the main factors around which Europe […]
Rabbi cursed the IDF Chief of Staff: why is Israel arguing again about Haredim, the army, and red lines
In the evening of June 29, 2026, a protest took place in Bnei Brak against the arrests of ultra-Orthodox individuals who did not respond to the army draft. The rally quickly went beyond the usual political debate about the service of Haredim in the IDF. One of the prominent Sephardic rabbis, Aryeh Yazdi, sharply attacked […]
Gasoline, drones, and the fear of truth: how Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s energy sector became a blow to Putin’s image
The Russian war against Ukraine is increasingly returning to Russia itself not only with reports of drones, closed airports, and fires at oil depots. Now it returns with queues at gas stations, restrictions on fuel sales, talks about importing gasoline, and public nervousness of those who just yesterday were obliged to explain to Russians that […]
The Chief Rabbi of Kyiv met with the Board of Peace advisor: why Ukraine’s voice should be heard where the fate of the war is decided
When only politicians talk about war, people often disappear behind numbers and formulas. But Ukraine today is not only the front, negotiation documents, security guarantees, and diplomatic formats. These are cities that live under attacks. These are families that continue to work, study, pray, and raise children. These are Jewish communities that did not leave […]
Video: ‘It was a misunderstanding’ — Moshe Asman published a statement and video with Korchinsky after the scandal around ‘Brotherhood’ and the Embassy of Israel
Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Moshe Asman published a statement and video with Dmitry Korchinsky on June 29, 2026, following the events surrounding the action on June 21 in Kyiv and the reaction of the Embassy of Israel in Ukraine.
In Kyiv, a forgotten shelter for 700 people was found – in the fifth year of the full-scale war: the bunker of the former Agromash plant had been lying under debris for years
On June 30, 2026, the Ukrainian publication TSN published an article by Oleksandr Marushchak about a discovery that sounds almost absurd for wartime Kyiv. In the Dnipro district of the capital, near the residential complex “Park Lakes,” researchers of underground Kyiv discovered an abandoned radiation shelter designed for approximately 700 people. This is not a […]
Ukrainian Jews have historically spoken Russian. The war is changing this.
Three rabbis were sitting at breakfast in the Tsori Gilod synagogue of this city, discussing Russia’s war against the country where they work in a mix of Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian. They named their hometowns as Luhansk, Lviv, and Dnipro — the Russian names of Ukrainian cities that made international headlines after Russia’s invasion of […]