Mitzi Perdue

It’s a pleasantly sunny late summer day, and in a field the size of several football fields, Yana, a mine-clearance professional, is swinging her metal detector, rhythmically sweeping the tool back and forth over an area that is known to be contaminated with anti-personnel landmines. The area is 18 miles from Kyiv. Why is she…

Two months into Ukraine’s counteroffensive against the Russian invasion, some progress has been made, but not as quickly as Ukraine and its allies had hoped. Millions of obstacles are standing in the way of progress — in the form of extensive fortifications Russia has put in place across vast terrain laced with landmines. Read more…

This month marks a year and a half since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began (in 2022). Unfortunately there is still no end in sight. U.S. President Joe Biden’s recent order to share evidence of Russian war crimes with the international court is the latest revelation into just how commonplace these atrocities have been — and continue…

Russia’s war on Ukraine has created innumerable opportunities for human traffickers. Between the eight million refugees and the eight million internally displaced persons, traffickers can find an almost endless supply of people who are vulnerable to offers of food, shelter, or work. The Ukrainian police are doing all they can to thwart the traffickers. Read…

As a society, we need to ask ourselves why many people’s first instinct is to find pleasure in the sexual exploitation of another person. A Canadian woman recently came under investigation for attempting to coerce a group of Ukrainian women whom she had taken in as refugees to perform sex acts online. Unfortunately, this story is not…

Psychotherapists work together to help Ukrainian refugees deal with trauma. New York City-based psychotherapist Anya Lukianov is a second generation Ukrainian-American with expertise in complex trauma. Her background gives her uncommon insight into how to support refugees from the Ukraine War who’ve come to the United States. Lukianov is project coordinator of the Refugee Support Project…

Inspired Success Magazine recently interviewed Mitzi Perdue, an IWP Fellow at the Center for Intermarium Studies. In the interview, Ms. Perdue discusses the situation in Ukraine and what can be done to help. Read the interview

In the view of former Green Beret Ryan Hendrickson, Ukraine is today the largest minefield in the world. The malign impact of this new reality not only has global repercussions, but it will also extend for decades into the future. “Much of the conflict in Ukraine today revolves around landmines,” Hendrickson explains. Millions of these…

In a small bedroom community of Ukraine’s capitol city of Kyiv, a young girl is extremely lucky to be alive. In her home’s backyard, there was a shiny object that looked a little like a torpedo. She and her little friends liked to play around it. The object was a cluster bomb cannister. When it was…

People in conflict zones have been using mines since the U.S. Civil War – but, what’s going on in Ukraine today is unique in history. For one, it’s happening at a larger scale than we’ve seen since World War II. Ukraine has the second-largest area of all European countries, and already large parts of it…