Ukrainian men are not always willing to defend their country. Corruption abounds, according to columnist Oleksii Blyzniuk.

What to do after victory, Oleksii Blyzniuk wondered in late October. But what victory? As long as corruption exists, it is impossible to win. Because the war is a profitable business for some high-ranking officials, he says now.

In Ukraine children are needed more than ever, columnist Oleksii Blyzniuk writes. Because who will restore Ukraine otherwise when the war ends?

Of course, life goes on in Kyiv during the war. And in the occupied territory, not all is bad. But still, we wait for the counter-offensive to start. And we pray that God will drive out the Russian plague from our land.

We survived the winter! For now, that is probably our greatest joy. In this column, I want to share thoughts about people's moods in the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, that prevail at the moment.

In the last few weeks, the situation around the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate, UOC-MP) has become rather tense and complicated.

I would like to focus on a specific topic in this article. It is one interesting event that happened in the first days of the war in Ukraine but later had, and continues to have, a serious impact on the entire Ukrainian society, including Christians.

This story happened a couple of months ago in the south of Ukraine. The entire Kherson region, including Tavriyske –the village where I grew up (located about 70 km from the border with Crimea)– was the enemy's focus since the first days of the invasion. In Kherson and some local areas of the region, fierce battles were fought with the Ukrainian military. The latter withstood the fight but retreated because of the large preponderance of enemy forces. As a result, control over the region very soon wholly passed into the hands of the occupiers.

The theologian Oleksii Blyzniuk was in his home in Kyiv when the war broke out. What to do? He and his wife decided to leave in western direction, to Lviv. There is he staying now.