IWPR's Frontline Updates – unique insights from our network of local reporters and updates from our programmes.
Latest reports from IWPR's Ukraine Voices, with additional project highlights.
![Cry of the Nation ends with Stus' call to fight for Ukraine and the audience breaks into a standing ovation.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/focus_main_image_932_x_580_/public/images/story/ukraine-mariupol-theatre-Sergey-Hudak-37.jpg?h=41f55a5b)
PHOTO ESSAY
Mariupol Theatre’s Actors Interpret the Cry of a Nation
Although the iconic cultural centre lies in ruins, those who kept it alive for decades are trying to revive its legacy.
Interview with Lyudmila Kolosovych, Mariupol Drama Theatre Director
By Sergey Hudak, July 14 2022, Uzhhorod, western Ukraine
![Yevhen Nazarenko, 33, is a military reporter for the Ukrainian Witness YouTube project of the Come Back Alive Foundation, one of the country’s largest charitable funds. He has worked for Ukraine’s largest outlets, including 1+1, ICTV, Channel 24.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/focus_main_image_932_x_580_/public/images/story/ukraine-Yevhen-Nazarenko.jpg?h=e6ecc834)
Ukraine: A Day in the Life
“As soon as we leave, a Russian shell lands exactly where we had been. If we’d left 30 seconds later, I would not be here to write this.”
![Russian Army T-14 Armata tanks drive towards Red Square to participate in the annual Victory Day Parade in Moscow, Russia.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/grid_large_932_/public/images/story/GettyImages-472754720.jpg)
COMMENT
Will Sanctions Alone Undermine Russia’s Defence Industry?
Current policy is clearly failing to disrupt Moscow’s predatory plans.
![Ukraine has one of the world’s most progressive laws on access to public information and in 2021 it ranked higher than most European countries. The full-scale Russian invasion has erased years of progress: experts note that sine February 24, Ukrainians have lost access to about 90 per cent of current data.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/grid_large_932_/public/images/story/ukraine-data-Andrii-Ianitskyi.jpg)
Ukraine's Transparency Dilemma
Until February 24, Ukraine was a European leader in open data. Russia’s invasion has made maintaining transparent processes more difficult.
![Pham Doan Trang.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/grid_large_932_/public/images/story/vietnam-Pham-Doan-Trang-Paul-Mooney.jpg)
PRESS RELEASE
Vietnam: Former IWPR Mentor Receives International Press Freedom Award
Imprisoned writer honoured for her tireless work seeking to hold authorities to account.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHT
Moldovan Journalists Explain High Cost of Disinformation
Media literacy seminars in more remote parts of the country highlight danger of fake news.
![IWPR's partner, Association of Independent Press, has trained citizens in more isolated, rural areas of Moldova – who often remain particularly vulnerable to manipulation - in how to identify and counter disinformation.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/grid_large_932_/public/images/story/moldova-API-training-2-062022-API.jpg)
![A scene from Pictures from the Balkans.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/focus_main_image_932_x_580_/public/images/components/bbc-pictures-from-the-balkans.jpg?h=e75ab034)
BBC DOCUMENTARY
Pictures from the Balkans
IWPR's Asia & Eurasia Director Alan Davis joins his old friend and colleague photojournalist David Pratt as they return to Vukovar, Croatia for this BBC documentary, Pictures from the Balkans, 30 years after they walked into the besieged town as freelancers, to report the start of the Yugoslav wars.
Available on BBC iPlayer and Sky Documentaries.