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An employee counts trays of bread at the bread factory near Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 25, 2022.
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Reporter's notebook: What a factory says about Ukraine’s economy

by Luca Léry Moffat

The western part of war-torn Ukraine lies in the space between normalcy and reality. More tourists, more construction, more skiing. Fewer air raids, fewer blackouts, fewer speeding khaki pickup trucks. But no part of the country is immune to the effects of war. A local library hangs photographs of young men and women killed in action. Graveyards fly blue and yellow. Brigades advertise jobs on large billboards lining the highway. Driving past a small, unremarkable two-story building, my guide

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Ukraine war latest: Ukraine hits Russia' S-300 air defense radars in series of strikes

Key developments on Feb. 28-March 1: * Ukraine hits Russia' S-300 air defense radars in series of strikes, shows footage * 'Ukrainians made it through,' Zelensky says on toughest winter of Russia's invasion * Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine, Budanov says * 'Freedom to the Iranian people' — Kyiv voices support for US-led strikes on Iran Ukrainian forces struck radar stations of an S-300 air defense system and an S-300V4 complex in the Russian-occupied part of Donetsk Obl

'I betrayed my country' — the Ukrainian prison where women collaborators wait for Russia

Nelia Checheta served the state for decades — first with the Soviet military in Turkmenistan and later in Ukraine's Emergency Service — earning official honors along the way. At 62, her story continues not with commendations, but with a long prison sentence for collaboration. Checheta was convicted of passing information on Ukrainian troops and aircraft movements to an agent of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). She insisted the case was fabricated, but the evidence presented in court sug

Olena Chuieva in a women's penal colony in Southeastern Ukraine on Feb. 5, 2026.

Iran agrees to new talks, Trump claims after day of strikes

"They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them," Trump told the Atlantic on March 1. He did not say when the talks would take place, noting that some of the previous negotiation officials had been killed in the recent US-Israel strikes.

Trump’s struggle to deliver peace | Ukraine This Week

In the latest episode of Ukraine This Week, the Kyiv Independent’s Anna Belokur examines why U.S.-led peace negotiations have so far failed to end Russia’s war, one year after the now-infamous Oval Office clash between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.

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