What to do while in Ukraine

15-year-old Lviv resident Anastasia Hnatyshyn became the European chess champion. Before the start of the tournament, she was ranked 74th out of 150, but scored 9 points out of 11 possible and became the fourth continental champion in the history of Ukrainian women's chess. ▪️Recall that 17-year-old Kharkiv resident Roman Degtyarev recently became the European champion.

🇺🇦 Today, no earlier than 13:30, a historic match for Ukrainian tennis will take place! Svitolina and Kostyuk will meet in the quarterfinals of Roland Garros.  🇺🇦 For Svitolina, this is already the 15th quarterfinal of the Grand Slam. The Ukrainian has 12 wins and only 2 losses on clay in 2026, she has not lost nine matches in a row.  🇺🇦 For Kostyuk, this is only the second quarterfinal of the Grand Slam tournament in her career. Marta comes to the match with a series of 16 consecutive victories on clay. This season, she has not lost on this surface yet.  🫢 Both of them have won one WTA 1000 tournament on clay this year, in head-to-head meetings - 1:1, and bookmakers give a minimal advantage to Marta. We are proud of our girls - whoever wins, this is already history for Ukraine.

🗽Kyiv: the eternal city that does not give rest to Putin  Kyiv celebrates its birthday on the last Sunday of May. For the fifth year, this day has been overshadowed by the sounds of air raids and attacks by Russian drones and missiles. But the Ukrainian capital remains a symbol of indomitable spirit and freedom.   Why Kyiv does not give peace to Putin's Russia  For Russia, Kyiv is not just a city, but a symbol of imperial ambitions. Without Kiev, imperial Russia remains only the successor of the Mongol ulus Jucha, which has grown to one-eighth of the landmass.  For Putin, the inability to subjugate Ukraine, and especially its capital, is a blow to his dream of reviving the "Russian world" and appropriating thousands of years of history and culture. Kyiv is the key to the Kremlin's imperial fantasies.    But Kyiv is not the spiritual center of the empire. Kyiv is one of the centers of European civilization and democracy. This is a city that choos...

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🏆 Ilya Zabarny is the third Ukrainian to win the Champions League 🏆 Andriy Shevchenko (Milan, 2003) 🏆🏆 Andriy Lunin (Real Madrid, 2022, 2024)

On May 24, 1997, exactly 29 years ago, the first McDonald's in Ukraine opened at the Lukyanivka metro station.  Yesterday, Russian missiles flew there again. The neighboring Kvadrat shopping center and Lukyanivska market were completely destroyed. This sign should remain and become a symbol of the first Mc Donald in Ukraine and at the same time the most enduring.