Woman Miraculously Escapes After Being Buried Alive by Her Neighbors
A 57-year-old woman from Ukraine recently made international news headlines for surviving a brutal assault by her drunk neighbors which saw her beaten for hours and then digging her own grave in the local cemetery. Earlier this month, media outlets from the Ukrainian region of Poltava reported the shocking case of Nina Rudchenko, a woman […]
Real-Life Breaking Bad: Former Chemistry Sets Up Drug Labs, Tries to Sell Product Online
A former chemistry teacher in Ukraine has been dubbed a real-life version of Breaking Bad’s Walter White after he was caught cooking large quantities of amphetamine in two separate drug labs, and trying to sell them online. Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) recently announced the bust of a drug operation in the Kiev area and the […]
Ukrainian City Digs Hundreds of Graves to Scare Locals Into Staying at Home
The Ukrainian city of Dnipro has so far registered only 13 coronavirus infections and no fatalities attributed to Covid-19, but the local authorities have already dug over 600 fresh graves, just to be sure. Unwilling to risk the same kind of insubordination from his constituents, the mayor of Dnipro, a city of almost one million […]
Woman Allegedly Comes Back to Life 10 Hours After Being Pronounced Dead
An 83-year-old woman from Ukraine was pronounced dead at her home by both paramedics and police, last week, but 10 hours later, after her family started making preparations for her funeral, she showed signs of life and has since made a full recovery. Paramedics first consulted Ksenia Didukh, an 83-year-old retired nurse from the Ukrainian […]
Woman Puts Husband in DIY Chastity Belt to Prevent Him from Cheating
A Ukrainian man nearly lost his genitals after his wife put him in a painful DIY chastity belt for being unfaithful. The unnamed man in his 40’s, from the city of Zaporizhia, in southern Ukraine, told doctors that he woke up one morning earlier this week to find a big metal nut screwed onto his […]
Real-Life Pennywise the Clown in Ukraine Risks Spending 5 Years in Prison
A mysterious prankster who has been dressing up as Pennywise the evil clown from the popular “It” films and trying to scare passers-by has been getting a lot of attention in Ukraine, including from prosecutors who think the people behind the stunt deserve to be locked up. The real-life Pennywise was first spotted on the […]
Ukraine Opens Radioactive Chernobyl Reactor Control Room to Tourists
In an effort to boost tourism to turn the Chernobyl disaster zone into a tourist attraction, the Ukrainian government recently decided to open a highly radioactive reactor control room to tourists. The control room of Chernobyl’s reactor four is where Ukrainian engineers turned off the nuclear reactor’s cooling pumps during a safety test in April […]
24-Year-Old Man Marries 81-Year-Old Woman to Avoid Military Service
A young Ukrainian man has managed to successfully avoid compulsory military service by staying married to a woman 57 years his senior for almost two years. Despite widespread criticism online, the man has the law on his side. In late 2017, Alexander Kondratyuk, a young man from the Ukrainian city of Vinnitsa, received his conscription […]
Parents Abandoned Children on the Side of Road Because They “Needed a Break”
There’s no denying that parenting can get really tiring sometimes, but you have to suck it up and push on. Well, not this Ukrainian couple who decided to take a break from their kids by abandoning them on the side of a road, near a homeless people camp. Andrey, 3, and his younger brother Maksim, […]
Troll Level 99 – Protesters Trick Ukrainian Mayor into Posing with Poster Criticizing Him
Oleg Omelchuk, the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Olevsk, recently became an internet meme after being tricked into posing for a photo in front of the city hall holding a poster accusing him of infringing on the rights of citizens. The photo of Omelchuk standing shoulder to shoulder with the people protesting against him and […]
Ukrainian Shelter Rescues Dog That Had Been Stuck in Underground Heating System for Three Years
A dog shelter in Nikopol, Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast region, recently received a call from a concerned animal lover begging them to help her rescue a dog that had fallen down an exposed drain and had been stuck there for three years. The shocking story was shared on July 2nd, on a public dog-themed Facebook group, by Elena […]
Ukrainian Pensioner Turns Apartment Building Staircase into Awe-Inspiring 17th Century Chateau
Vladimir Chaika, a pensioner from the Ukrainian city of Kiev, spent 15 years turning the staircase of his Communist era apartment building into an artistic masterpiece reminiscent of 17th and 18th century chateaus. Vladimir says that he had always been fascinated by the interior design style of 1600s and 1700s castles and estates, and having […]
Ukrainian Motorist Builds His Own Lamborghini Reventon
Oleg Hrycak, a sports car enthusiast from the Ukrainian city of Lviv, spent four years building his very own limited edition Lamborghini Reventon. He admits it was a lot of work, but it beats having to pay over $2 million for a real one. Having worked as a designer at a Ukrainian bus factory, Oleg says […]
Ukraine’s ‘Land of the Twins’ – Unique Village Boasts 61 Sets of Twins
Velikaya Kopanya village is better known as Ukraine’s ‘Land of the Twins’ because of its record-breaking 61 pairs of twins among the less than 4,000 inhabitants. The village is soon expected to be included in the Guinness Book of World Records, having already made its way into Ukraine’s record book. According to locals, the number of twins […]
Ukrainian Man Has Been Walking Barefoot for the Last 10 Years, Regardless of Weather
Despite the region’s sub-zero winters, a Ukrainian man from Kiev has been walking around barefoot since February 2006. Andrzej Novosiolov apparently began the bizarre practice on a whim – his feet felt unusually hot one evening, so he tried walking on fresh snow without footwear and found the sensation surprisingly pleasant. Although his feet began to ache […]