Mined in, starved out, hunted from above—life in the towns Russia demands at the peace table
In occupied Oleshky, mined roads trap civilians while Russian drone trainees use food queues as practice targets. Residents call it "safari."
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Kyiv’s winter survival gear: headlamps, EcoFlows, and a rock on the stove
Amidst freezing temperatures and Russia’s systematic infrastructure strikes, Kyivans have developed specialized toolkits of DIY engineering and adaptive routines to maintain their homes.
Behind the black windows: How Kyiv survives a winter in the dark
In a city of prolonged blackouts and extreme freezes, survival in Kyiv has become a calculated battle fought with makeshift engineering and a finite supply of luck.
The demographic revolution Odesa doesn’t talk about
Half of Odesa is new. You’d never know it. Contents Mamalyga: Friday night heat The demographic remix Khadjibey:…
Kostiantynivka: How a city dies without surrendering
Six months inside a city Russia is slowly erasing
No power, no heat, no water: How a city of 1 million survives when everything stops
Inside Odesa's longest blackout since Russia's full-scale invasion began
Russian spy drones owned the sky—until Ukraine took the fight underground
Our exclusive from inside the bunkers where anti-aircraft teams hunt Russia's high-altitude reconnaiance drones
Russia bombs Odesa’s port—US and EU firms expand offices anyway
Dollar salaries, defiance, and Danish lighting standards — five foreign firms showed me how business survives in Ukraine’s “Wild South.”
Ukraine’s Navy doesn’t exist—except it kind of does, and it’s brilliant
At 2 am, they rip their mooring rope racing to engage 17 Shaheds.
Highway of fire: Russian drones turn Kherson’s lifeline road into a death trap
Russia's drone siege turns every car ride into a death lottery.
Ukraine builds an army where robots die so soldiers don’t have to
A New York tech CEO is finding the answer to Russia's three-to-one manpower advantage.
Russia found Ukraine’s drone weakness: cables that can’t be jammed
Electronic warfare became obsolete overnight, thanks to Beijing.
Ukraine’s secret weapon against Russia’s drone swarms: a wall of static
It spans 1,500 kilometers, weighs nothing, and kills Russian drones with invisible math.
“Every object is a maybe.” Russia’s cheapest traps are killing Ukraine’s scarce bomb experts
“Could be any of this,” the sapper said, pointing to my phone and a Sprite can. In Kherson, he lost his foot finding out.
Inside the secret workshops where Ukraine’s hipster engineers build killer drones
They look like they should be fixing your Wi-Fi or brewing oat milk lattes—but inside a bunker near the frontline, they’re building $300 drones that are outsmarting Russian tanks and rewriting the rules of modern war.
The UN confirmed what I saw in Kherson: Russia is hunting civilians for sport
What I witnessed wasn't random violence—it was systematic hunting.
“First they shell, then they hunt”: Russia’s savage new civilian terror strategy debuts in Kherson
Ambulances, first responders, and civilians became prey in Russia's calculated new warfare technique that turned Kherson into a killing zone on Thursday.
As Trump trades US aid for Putin peace, Ukraine’s ammo-starved troops split over Kursk future
As Trump pushes peace talks on Russia's terms, Ukrainian soldiers grow bitterly divided over a high-stakes offensive that became Kyiv's key bargaining chip.
While Trump courts peace with Putin, NATO races against Russia’s Baltic hybrid assault
Amid growing calls for peace with Putin, the NATO navy remains on high alert over crucial cables in the Baltics, where the Kremlin unleashes the second front in its war against the West.
As Russian troops leave Armenia, Moscow’s revenge playbook emerges
Russian peacekeepers' betrayal during Azerbaijan's advances prompted Armenia to make an unprecedented pivot westward. But Moscow never forgives desertion.