18 facts from the history of the Second World War in Ukraine that were concealed by Soviet propaganda. There is sufficient evidence for each of them to be regarded as neither mere theories nor hypotheses. Most of these facts were classified as top secret and have not been fully declassified to this day. Each of the listed facts represents a major error by the Soviet command, which led to numerous human and strategic losses and was subsequently carefully concealed by the Soviet authorities.

1. The Dnipro landing in 1943 — a remarkable feat by Soviet soldiers and a major military blunder by the command.
2. The mass murder of people by NKVD troops in the prison on Lonskogo Street in Lviv.
3. The Kyiv fortified area — doomed to death.
4. The blowing up of 27 Inkerman tunnels along with 10,000 tonnes of ammunition by NKVD troops.
5. The field military registration and enlistment offices of 1943 — conscripts without artillery preparation, without equipment and without weapons.
6. The greatest myth of the Red Army’s victory — the liberation of Kyiv, the battles near Bukryn on 1–2 November 1943 — was the most inept military operation.
7. The Kerch amphibious operation on 1 January 1942 — a large-scale, senseless, bloody operation.
8. The sinking of the motor ship ‘Armenia’ — the most tragic loss of life at sea, eclipsing that of the ‘Titanic’ — up to 10,000 people died.
9. Rutchenko Field. The execution of teenagers and the wounded by Soviet troops in Donetsk in June 1941.
10. The military blunder in the defence of Sevastopol. The senseless evacuation of ammunition from the besieged city.
11. The largest tank battle near Dubno at the start of the war in 1941 resulted in the Soviet Union’s greatest defeat due to a lack of fuel and radio communications.
12. The encirclement and annihilation of the Soviet Army’s South-Western Front was the greatest fiasco in the history of warfare.
13. The blowing up of Khreshchatyk by NKVD forces, along with the residents.
14. The flight of the entire military command from Sevastopol.
15. Hell in Sevastopol.
16. Events in Odessa in 1941. A graveyard of ambulances with the wounded inside.
17. The destruction of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Station by Soviet troops on 18 August 1941. A chain reaction of flooding in the surrounding areas, trapping troops and civilians.
18. The destruction of 2.5 million WWII disabled veterans by the Soviet secret services after the war.