Thermopylae

Freedom is always fragile. People always need the will to fight for it, whether in Ancient Greece or in Mariupol in the 21st century.

Yopie Hidayat

April 28, 2022

MARIUPOL, April 2022. In that Ukrainian port city, 2,000 fighters have been holed up for almost two months in the underground tunnels of the Azovtal steel plant. They are surrounded by 20,000 Russian soldiers

The city is in ruins. Every 10 minutes, Russian forces fire missile strikes. From a secret location, the Mariupol mayor announced that around 20,000 inhabitants are dead. The Russian side broadcasts that part of the Ukrainian army has surre

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