Dispatch Archives - Euromaidan Press

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International monitors confirm Russia’s blockade of occupied Oleshky, where the living starve and the dead go unburied

Four months after Euromaidan Press first reported the siege, the UN, Human Rights Watch, ISW, and the OSCE have all confirmed it. An exiled official says 100 bodies lie unburied in the town's hospital basement.

byZarina Zabrisky

3 minute read

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Ukraine has a million wounded veterans—and the funding to train forty as deminers

Maksym Dobrianskyi lost a leg to a Russian mine, then joined a small, donor-funded effort turning Ukraine’s war-wounded into the workforce its recovery needs.

byPeeter Helme

scanjack 3500 demining machine at the uttc media day

9 minute read

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Dust and demining in Lviv Oblast—where the future of clearing the world’s most mined country meets the county fair

A day at the country’s flagship robot-demining showcase in Lviv Oblast, where clearing the most heavily mined country on earth looked a bit like a county fair with explosions.

byPeeter Helme

11 minute read

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Mongols, Soviets, now Putin: every empire told Ukraine “you are one of us.” None were right.

A Holy Week walk through Lviv's churches, three days after a Shahed drone hit a 17th-century monastery, finds Russia's boot print older than the building it just tried to destroy.

byAndrew Giarelli

8 minute read

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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."

byZarina Zabrisky

13 minute read

Dispatch

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.

byBenjamin Murdoch

During blackouts, apartment blocks in Kyiv are mostly dark, with scattered lights from apartments with battery-powered sources. Generators power businesses on the ground floor. Street lights are largely off.

9 minute read

Dispatch

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.

byBenjamin Murdoch

13 minute read

Dispatch

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:…

byPeeter Helme

Dragon's teeth fortifications Kostiantynivka

11 minute read

Dispatch

Kostiantynivka: How a city dies without surrendering

Six months inside a city Russia is slowly erasing

byDevin Woodall

Odesa city skyline and port in complete darkness during power blackout after Russian attack, with only moonlight illuminating the buildings and harbor cranes

5 minute read

Dispatch

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

byMaxim Volovich

Ukraine anti-air defense underground drones

11 minute read

Dispatch

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

byDevin Woodall

13 minute read

Dispatch

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.”

byPeeter Helme

Ukrainian Navy CB90 rapid assault craft patrol Black Sea coast defense operations against Russian attacks Swedish-donated boats

11 minute read

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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.

byDevin Woodall

12 minute read

Dispatch

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.

byZarina Zabrisky

9 minute read

Dispatch

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.

byDavid Kirichenko

A drone operator with the 110th Mechanized Brigade.

7 minute read

Dispatch

Russia found Ukraine’s drone weakness: cables that can’t be jammed

Electronic warfare became obsolete overnight, thanks to Beijing.

byDavid Kirichenko

8 minute read

Dispatch

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.

byDavid Kirichenko

12 minute read

Dispatch

“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.

byZarina Zabrisky

Ukrainian hipsters make drones drone warfare

8 minute read

Dispatch

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.

byZarina Zabrisky

8 minute read

Dispatch

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.

byZarina Zabrisky

Dispatch

International monitors confirm Russia’s blockade of occupied Oleshky, where the living starve and the dead go unburied

Ukraine has a million wounded veterans—and the funding to train forty as deminers

Dust and demining in Lviv Oblast—where the future of clearing the world’s most mined country meets the county fair

Mongols, Soviets, now Putin: every empire told Ukraine “you are one of us.” None were right.

Mined in, starved out, hunted from above—life in the towns Russia demands at the peace table

Kyiv’s winter survival gear: headlamps, EcoFlows, and a rock on the stove

Behind the black windows: How Kyiv survives a winter in the dark

The demographic revolution Odesa doesn’t talk about

Kostiantynivka: How a city dies without surrendering

No power, no heat, no water: How a city of 1 million survives when everything stops

Russian spy drones owned the sky—until Ukraine took the fight underground

Russia bombs Odesa’s port—US and EU firms expand offices anyway

Ukraine’s Navy doesn’t exist—except it kind of does, and it’s brilliant

Highway of fire: Russian drones turn Kherson’s lifeline road into a death trap

Ukraine builds an army where robots die so soldiers don’t have to

Russia found Ukraine’s drone weakness: cables that can’t be jammed

Ukraine’s secret weapon against Russia’s drone swarms: a wall of static

“Every object is a maybe.” Russia’s cheapest traps are killing Ukraine’s scarce bomb experts

Inside the secret workshops where Ukraine’s hipster engineers build killer drones

The UN confirmed what I saw in Kherson: Russia is hunting civilians for sport

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