After a short search the most critical source I found is this student project from Connecticut College. It seems to provide some detail for much of your timeline.
There is also an al jazzera article.

openpress.digital.conncoll.edu/beingukraine...

Thanks for taking the time for this.

Hey could you share some reporting on this? Maybe a timeline of events? I don’t know enough about Ukraine politics get any of these references.

One time I ran a dungeon that I think is in this and it was rad.

Not a megadungeon at all. More of a one shot ish dungeon at a mega scale. Then there’s a huge wilderness area above. Looks really fun. Sholtis art and sensibility is great.

When I was young and carefree. In this case 10-13yrs old

I ran most of In Search of Adventure back in the salad days.

When I play with friends I’ve been playing a home brew based on Old DnD. Going to run a couple ADnD sessions with my students this spring. But mostly I play miniature games these days

Mythic Battles is great. It hasn’t hit the table in a la long while but really fun and challenging. And great models.

I keep saying Barrowmaze because I know it. I think all of them books in that series address a key issue with megadungeons which is getting stuck in them for too long. Flat modular structure is easy in/out for episodic play and allows a bigger campaign world to develop (in town etc)

I bought it. Like 8 years ago but I finally got Operation Completely Unfathomable by Jason Sholtis this year

Also Castle X is great. I would say similar prep to barrowmaze. Maybe a little more but still not much.

I know the feeling. Been stoked for dolmenwood for along time. My last campaign had elements of both actually.

Thinking about the factions, giving their leaders some names n stuff will definitely make Barrowmaze more fun. But you don’t need to do that to start.

Storm Kings Thunder was the high prep one. That campaigns a mess. It it fulfilled my bucket list of running a full on forgotten realms campaign. We had the poster map on the wall and the players enjoyed exploring.

Curse of Strahd is good. It the right size for a campaign setting. Just a little more stuff to do than the hero’s need to gain that xp to go back and brave castle. Lots of connection throughout. Very rewarding for our group.