Ukraine

• New Year’s Day Новий Рік January 1
• Unity Day January 16
• Cyborg Remembrance Day January 20
• Mourning Day of the Beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine February 24
• International Women’s Day Міжнародний жіночий день March 8
• Labour Day День праці May 1
• Easter
• Second World War Remembrance Day May 7
• Victory Day (over Nazism in World War II) ‌День пам'яті та перемоги над нацизмом у Другій світовій війні May 8
• Trinity (Pentecost) Трійця
• Constitution Day День Конституції України June 28
• Statehood Day День Української Державності July 15
• Flag Day August 23
• Independence Day of Ukraine День Незалежності України August 24
• Day of Knowledge September 1
• Ukraine Defender Day День захисників і захисниць України October 1
• Teacher’s Day October 2
• Holodomor Memorial Day Final Saturday of November
• Armed Forces of Ukraine Day December 6
• Christmas Різдво Христове December 25

• Servant of the People Netflix
• Chernobyl HBO
• Babushkas of Chernobyl
• Mavka: The Forest Song Hulu

The following are films about the 2014 invasion-present day war. Viewer discretion advised.

• 20 Days In Mariupol
• Donbass
• Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom Netflix
• Breaking Point
• Freedom on Fire
• Heroes Never Die Tubi
• Klondike (2022)
• A House Made of Splinters
• Sniper. The White Raven Prime

Directly from Ukraine

• ETNODIM
• Aviatsiya Halychyny
• Shkoura
• Sleeper (women only)
• O.TAJE (women only)

Support Ukraine directly

• Saint Javelin
• NAFO

Non-Fiction

• The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine Serhii Plokhy
• The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History Serhii Plokhy
• Red Famine Anne Applebaum.
• Bloodlands
• Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know
• Voices of Chernobyl
• Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Fiction

• Death and the Penguin Andrey Kurkov
• I Will Die in a Foreign Land

Cookbooks

• Mamushka

I hate this time of year.

There is a strange part of me deep down that knows it’s time. Time to mourn. Time to have anxiety. Time to feel not in control.

2022 was the worst year in many of our lives. Every year I do my best to pull myself together, bit my bit. And I largely succeed, until February.

Every February I start feeling in control, but come March I’m in a much worse place. It’s a force that drags me under and keeps me there.

Now that 2.24 has passed, I find myself picking up the pieces. Like last year. Like the year before.