“We believe we will return!” – Peremoha newspaper from Krasnopillia, Sumy Region, forced to evacuate

“93 years of history in the trunk of the editorial car: we are sad to announce that the editorial staff of the Peremoha newspaper was forced to leave their native settlement of Krasnopillia due to the ruthless destruction of the village by the russian occupiers. Ninety-three years of our history, archival materials, and office equipment – ​​we tried to save all this by putting it in the editorial car. Of course, we did not manage to take everything. They say that you have to forget something in order to return. We believe we will return,” wrote the editor-in-chief Oleksandr Motsnyi on Facebook.

He added that the war had already interrupted the publication of our newspaper once during World War II. The newspaper did not come out for two months after the start of this russian aggression, but it resumed work.

Now, newspaper workers are facing a lot of everyday problems: finding housing, arranging a new workplace, and providing with necessary things.

“But we do not lose optimism and believe in the best. We are grateful to everyone who supports us in this difficult time. Your support is our strength!” wrote the editor-in-chief.

“We admire your heroism – you published and distributed your newspaper for your fellow countrymen until the last moment!” commented the President of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU), Sergiy Tomilenko. “We will try to continue to support you.”

In the future, journalists of the Peremoha newspaper will work in electronic format on the Telegram channel.

“Today, the situation in Krasnopillia is extremely critical,” Volodymyr Sadivnychyi, the head of the Sumy regional organization of the NUJU, told the NUJU information service in a comment. “The center of the village was bombed: the hospital, school, and the House of Culture were destroyed. According to the regional administration, almost all people from Krasnopillia were evacuated. If we talk about the general situation in the Sumy Region, there are reasons for both pessimism and optimism. In Sumy, educational institutions, medical institutions, and libraries are operating, and cultural and sports events are taking place. Another premiere took place in the regional theater on Saturday. People’s moods are different – as, probably, in all of Ukraine. Life goes on.”

NUJU Information Service