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As Russia closes in on Sloviansk, this taxi driver keeps working

SLOVIANSK, Donetsk Oblast — From a brick-walled garage that barely fits the blue car parked inside, Oleksandr Richak carefully backs his taxi cab out onto the narrow street. The 42-year-old usually starts work around 8 a.m., once the early-morning rush hour of deadly Russian drone activity in the eastern front-line city subsides. As he briefly parks the car outside a damaged one-story house, his wife, Nataliia, walks over and hands him a bottle of lemon-flavored water. Her worried eyes follow

There's one massive problem with Trump's Ukraine diesel price theory

U.S. President Donald Trump has a very simple solution to the very real problem of rising diesel prices. "(President Volodymyr) Zelensky has to do one thing — he has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” he told reporters on Sept. 13. "Let him go after targets but not diesel fuel, because he’s causing a shortage of diesel fuel… that’s hurting the world." Trump's implication was clear — halting Ukraine's long-running, long-range drone strike campaign against Russian oil refineries would

About DTEK

DTEK is Ukraine's largest private energy company, operating thermal power plants, renewable facilities, coal mines, and electricity distribution networks across the country. Russian attacks have destroyed significant portions of DTEK's generation capacity since February 2022, with the company reporting billions in damages.

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