In particular, Ihor Kulyk noted: Nowadays, opening archives and providing access to primary sources is very important, because Russia's war against Ukraine is not so much for territory as for identification, for the consciousness of citizens. Archives can just debunk myths like "Crimea - the original Russian land" and others.

The cases describe the fates of ordinary people who were deported, evicted, and destroyed under the communist totalitarian regime. It is an opportunity to learn the truth about relatives, to try to reconstruct the truth about historical events. Many of those who appealed complained that their families were afraid to talk about the repressed, and many things were not mentioned. Our task is to overcome this fear so that people themselves want to find information about who they are and why their relatives have been repressed.

Asked how the amount of information in Ukrainian archives can be described, Ihor Kulyk explained that there are data on about four million cases in different archives in Ukraine:

- in the Security Service of Ukraine, in the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, etc. Now anyone can visit and work with documents for free, re-photograph them and so on. In this respect, Ukraine is among the flagships in the post-Soviet space. Apart from us, only the Baltic countries have passed special laws on access to Soviet archives. In Belarus and Russia, the policies are opposite and aimed at complicating access.

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