Different nationalist parties rallied to mark the 111th anniversary of Stepan Bandera's birth. Kiev, Ukraine, 1 January 2020. (Credit: Keystone/EPA/Serguey Dolzhenko)

Who was Stepan Bandera, Ukraine’s controversial nationalist figure? Revered by many as a national hero who fought Soviet domination, and as a fascist responsible for killing tens of thousands by others, Stepan Bandera remains a deeply divisive figure in Ukraine. Ukrainian journalist Mariana Tsymbaliuk spoke to Yaroslav Korytchuk, historian and director of the Stepan Bandera museum in Ivano-Frankivsk. Korytchuk’s views represent those of many Ukrainians.

Yevheniya Sydorova didn’t know anything about medicine before the war. (Credit: Oleksandra Ambroz)

How one IT specialist raises 20,000 euros a month for Ukraine. “I was horrified with the situation,” Yevheniya Sydorova recalled. “Imagine a seriously injured soldier during combat who survives all the way into government-controlled territory, arrives at a hospital, only to be told there is no medication. I just thought: ‘how could that happen?’ You make it to the hospital alive, but you die there because there’s no ‘Albuven’.”

📌 4-5 July | Ukraine Recovery Conference in Lugano. Switzerland is co-organising the conference with Ukraine, to launch rebuilding efforts through a broad political and diplomatic process. The conference is expected to attract international delegations as well as representatives from the private sector and civil society.