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Ukrainian authorities estimate that at least 16,000 civilians have been abducted and are currently being unlawfully detained by Russia. Russia refuses to disclose the whereabouts of those it holds in captivity, with the obvious intention of placing these “disappeared” people outside the protection of the law. This is argued by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG), a Ukrainian human rights organization that, among other things, tries to locate missing Ukrainians, documents disappearances, supports families, and collects evidence that can be used in future legal processes.
By
Ninna Mörner
November 6, 2026
These three essays and the reports are unified by their rigorous examination of institutional and human resilience within Ukraine’s educational, social, and psychological infrastructure during the full-scale Russian invasion. Overall, the papers analyze how systemic military aggression necessitates a radical shift in pedagogical, sporting, and ethical paradigms. From “underground” teaching and learning at universities to the survival of youth athletic pipelines and the emotional endurance of faculty, these works highlight the intersection of emergency adaptation and national identity. For journal readers, this collection offers a rare empirical window into sectoral survival under existential threat, providing a blueprint for maintaining educational, intellectual, and physical sovereignty amidst the war in Ukraine.
Essay by
Ilona Kostikova
November 6, 2026
The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has generated unprecedented threats to the nation’s educational system, compelling universities to develop innovative survival strategies against imperial aggression. Using Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University as a case study, this article examines how higher education functions as a decolonizing force during armed conflict. Drawing on document analysis, visual documentation, and thematic analysis, the study explores how wartime adaptations, such as transforming deep bomb shelters into classrooms and student housing, preserve the right to education and reinforce Ukraine’s intellectual sovereignty. Student choice data reveal an empowered learning community navigating blended and distance learning according to safety needs. Ultimately, these subterranean and digital adaptations transcend pragmatic necessity; they constitute acts of epistemic resistance that safeguard cultural identity, institutional autonomy, and the nation’s right to produce its own knowledge. The “underground university” thus emerges as a practical manifestation of education’s decolonizing power during war.
Essay by
Tatiana Fomenko, Liudmyla Holubnycha, Tetiana Besarab, Svitlana Mykytiuk, and Denys Besarab
November 6, 2026
This study systematizes the transformative impacts of the full-scale military invasion on Ukraine’s youth sport education systems and substantiates multilevel recovery strategies within the Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) framework. The analysis focuses on how macrosystemic disruptions affect the pedagogical continuity and developmental pathways of young learners.
A qualitative analytical approach was employed and Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory provides the theoretical lens. The findings reveal a critical disintegration of the “talent pipeline” due to the destruction of educational infrastructure, the forced migration of the pedagogical core (coaching staff), and the militarization of sports-based learning in occupied territories. The results extend LTAD theory by demonstrating its structural vulnerability under prolonged crises and identifying primary pathways of institutional and educational erosion. Recovery requires a transition from emergency management to a resilient educational model that integrates psychosocial support into athletic training.
Essay by
Ihor Hrynchenko, Serhii Palevych, Ivan Danylishyn, Olena Chaika, and Vitalii Kyrpenko
November 6, 2026
There are many difficulties and challenges for higher education in war zones. Rector Yurii Boichuk and Vice-
Rector Volodymyr Borysov, at H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University in Kharkiv, have
personal experience of providing education against all odds. They describe how they have been organizing the
educational programs at their university; Yurii Boichuk presents the work with strengthening the education for
Children with Special Needs (SEN) and Volodymyr Borysov describes the importance of providing both online
and offline education in times of war.
By
Yurii Boichuk and Volodymyr Borysov
November 6, 2026
Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East, Victoria Donovan (London: Daunt Books, 2025), 273 pages.
By
Simo Mannila
November 6, 2026
The following essays in this theme-issue aim to capture a snapshot of that 40th anniversary amidst the ongoing war. These essays were written by researchers in life sciences, humanities and social sciences, as well as practitioners of the arts, many of whom have worked on Chornobyl issues in Ukraine, in Eastern and Western Europe and in North America for some time. They engage the effort to understand the impact of the ongoing violence unleashed by Russian troops on the legacy and memory of Chornobyl writ large. These impressions have been laid out in multiple, layered visions and memories of Chornobyl: Chornobyl as a symbol of technological failure, a reminder of local and national tragedy and resilience, and a place for international technoscientific and humanitarian cooperation and collective reflection about nuclear and other technogenic risks.
Essay by
Tatiana Kasperski and Oksana Semenik
April 23, 2026
The first news from Chornobyl was about gunfire near the Buriakivka radioactive waste storage facility. By noon there were images: Russian tanks near the Administrative Building No. 1 of the plant. Denys Vyshnevskyi, the Head of Department at Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve writes here about the occupation and how life changed in the Exclusion Zone. For many research groups, 2022 became the year of accepting a bitter truth – Chornobyl research was being suspended indefinitely.
Essay by
Denys Vyshnevskiy
April 23, 2026
From the moment of its establishment, the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) became a territory separated from the rest of the country: governed by different rules and a distinct internal logic. The isolation of the CEZ and the urgency of its tasks have shaped – and continue to shape – specific demands on the scientists who work there. Chornobyl science is also influenced by crises that have repeatedly redefined its priorities.
Essay by
Olena Pareniuk and Kateryna Shavanova
April 23, 2026
Forty years after the Chornobyl disaster, the essay reflects on the impact of peaceful and weaponized nuclear energy in Ukraine’s history. One of the leading nuclear energy operators in the world, Ukraine suffered the worst nuclear accident in history, which had wide-ranging geopolitical consequences. One of them was to influence Ukraine’s decision to surrender the nuclear weapons inherited from the USSR, a decision that ultimately exposed.
Ukraine to Russian predation. After its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Moscow proceeded to create and manipulate unprecedented nuclear dangers for Ukraine’s civilian nuclear infrastructure, blurring – as it once did in Chornobyl – the distinction between atoms for peace and atoms for war.
Essay by
Mariana Budjeryn
April 23, 2026
Issue 2026, 3-4: 
Baltic Worlds covers; the Baltic Sea Region, Eastern Europe, Russia, CentralAsia, Caucasus and the Balkan area.