There is a route two hours from Kyiv that packs in almost everything people travel far and wide for: the ruins of a lavish palace steeped in ghosts and legends, 25-metre granite cliffs where climbers ...
Picture granite cliffs dropping sheer into a clear emerald lake, and above them a wall of pines and birches. This is not Scandinavia or Karelia, though the resemblance is striking. It is the flooded g...
The Zhytomyr region is, above all, stone. Granite, labradorite, gabbro, quartzite: for centuries, blocks were carved from the ground here and later laid into city cobblestones, foundations and monumen...
A few kilometres from Zhytomyr, in the settlement of Huiva, concrete bunkers with three-metre-thick walls lie hidden in an ordinary Polissian forest. These are the remains of "Hegewald" — the field he...
Driving out of Kyiv along the Zhytomyr highway toward Polissia, somewhere around the 32-kilometre mark you catch sight of something that has no business in the Polissian landscape at all: a genuine fa...
There is a river in Polissia that paddlers remember with a mix of love and a faint shiver of fear. The Uzh — a right-bank tributary of the Prypiat, 256 kilometres long and up to 40 metres wide — flows...
A fresh Russian attack has damaged farmland in Ukraine's Zhytomyr region.According to Vitalii Bunechko, head of the Zhytomyr Regional Military Administration, the strike started a fire in a wheat fiel...
Danylo Melnyk, a 20-year-old serviceman from Ukraine's Zhytomyr region, has become a symbol of extraordinary resilience. Despite severe wounds, Russian captivity and torture, he refused to break — and...
