A difficult life in the right-bank part of the Kherson region controlled by Ukraine but on the frontline. The lives of Kherson residents — people who consciously decided to stay in an extremely dangerous, devastated, but native city. Combat work and everyday life of the Ukrainian soldiers who defend Kherson region. Surreal, absurd, yet real stories from the lives of the collaborationist elite in the left-bank part of Kherson region temporarily controlled by Russia.
This is the latest issue of MOST magazine, which was recently published. Those who saw the magazine in person read the foreword where we say that this – is not the second magazine. This – is different. Holding it in your hands, you will understand why.
On its pages we recorded thousands of kilometers along the roads of Kherson region as it is today. With destruction, empty villages, tall grass, abandoned shells. With a thirst for life. With people who persist despite everything.
People – are the foundation of our new magazine. In small communities, in Kherson or Ivano-Frankivsk; people who went through the hell of Russian prisons and returned; people who choose not to give up and to do their work – we selected materials about those whose example inspires a desire to rethink.
The magazine opens with an interview with the former mayor of Kherson, Volodymyr Mykolayenko — a heavy, candid and honest account of nearly 3.5 years spent in Russian captivity. MOST was the first media outlet to which Mykolayenko gave an interview, doing so shortly after his return despite serious health problems.
If in the previous magazine we published reports and interviews, in this one you will also find two investigations: about the elite of the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson region and about land schemes that involved very well-known Kherson residents.
Be sure to pay attention to the articles about the military. They are worth reading not only because such materials are a colossal risk for their authors, as they require going into the zone of active hostilities. The most important thing here is that this is the history of Ukraine being made here and now, and through MOST magazine one can “talk” with participants in events that will inevitably enter history textbooks.
As in the previous magazine, in this one you can find many reports and interviews. And some of them, unfortunately, have become a kind of memorial to the residents of Kherson region who did a lot for the region but died as a result of Russian aggression.
There is a farmer from Beryslav district, head of the Association of Farmers of Kherson region, Hero of Ukraine (posthumously) Oleksandr Hordiienko, killed by Russians on September 5, 2025 while working in the field. There is Oleksandr Hudima — a bus driver from Kherson who took part in evacuation efforts; the Russians killed him on November 25, 2025 during shelling of the city.
Finally – Kherson region is and Kherson region will be, and we will be its chroniclers for as long as we have strength. After all, who if not us?
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