Oekraïne

Report

‘A Hungarian in Ukraine today is seen as an enemy’

15 December 2023 -

Hungary blocks EU financial aid packages for Ukraine. Prime minister Viktor Orbán also walked out of the EU vote to open accession negotiations with Ukraine. Political tensions between Budapest and Kiev are escalating. The Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia, Ukraine, is caught in the middle.

News

Back to the Romanian-Ukrainian border: ‘Spontaneous solidarity has greatly diminished’

1 September 2023 -

Fleeing your country is one thing. But what comes after, when you have reached a safe country and the weeks and months pass? MO* journalist Pieter Stockmans returned to the Romanian-Ukrainian border, where he saw a wave of solidarity with refugees last year. What has changed?

Editorial

‘The need for in-depth journalism is increasing, as is its value’

1 June 2023 -

Thanks in part to artificial intelligence, the amount of superficial information disguised as journalism will increase even more briskly, writes editor-in-chief Jago Kosolosky. 'At such a time, the need for in-depth journalism is increasing, as is its value.'

News

Wagner acknowledges the death of a Zambian student recruited in Russian prison

12 December 2022 -

A young man from Zambia died at the war front in Ukraine in September. His family is left with questions. Lemekhani Nyirenda was a student in Moscow serving a prison sentence in Russia. He was one of the detainees recruited by the Wagner Group.

Analysis

Why African countries prefer not to get embroiled in Russia's war

18 May 2022 -

Africa voted very divided on the UN resolution condemning the Russian invasion in the Ukraine. What is the political impact of the conflict on Africa’s cohesion?

Report

‘Illegal wood does not disappear from Ukrainian forests on its own’

5 October 2020 -

In recent years, more wood was exported from Ukraine than officially logged. This can only be explained by illegal logging of wood that ends up in our printing paper, our clothing, IKEA furniture and other furniture. MO* went out into the Ukrainian woods.

Report

These primeval forests have to make way for a mega-ski resort. Who benefits from the clear-cut?

13 December 2019 -

The businessman who helped Ukrainian president Zelensky to the top, wants to build Europe’s largest ski area in Europe’s last great wilderness: the Carpathians. Logging in primeval forests near the protected mountain range of Svydovets has begun, but is confronted with unexpected civil activism. An ordinary citizen is dragging some the most po ...

Interview

Ukrainian fact-checkers Stop Fake: ‘Fake news is a weapon of war’

25 July 2017 -

Ever since fake news troubles the West, the Ukrainian fact-checkers of Stop Fake are welcome guests at journalism conferences and in the corridors of power in Western Europe. A critical talk about fake and real news, and what we can learn on the frontline of the information war.

Interview

Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine: ‘Visa-free travel puts us back on Europe’s map’

13 June 2017 -

MO* spoke with Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Ivanna Klympusch-Tsintsadze in Kiev, at a historic moment. After years of negotiation, the visa-free travel and the Association Agreement, which led to war with Russia and was hanging by a thread after the Dutch referendum, finally got through. ‘This is a civilizational shift.&rsqu ...

Report

On the Ukrainian frontline with the European New Right

8 September 2016 -

Radicalised Westerners who want to take up arms against NATO or the US fight with the pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine. MO* followed them on the only European frontline.