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Ukraine war latest live: 'Ukraine's defence forces have regained positions in Kupiansk'

This is Chris York reporting from Kyiv on day 1,441 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story so far: Ukraine's Armed Forces have regained positions in the embattled city of Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian open-source mapping project DeepState said on Feb. 3. "Ukraine's defence forces have regained positions in Kupiansk," the group said in a post on social media. Russia has been trying  to push across the front by launching heavy offensive operations on multiple axes,

How Soviet nostalgia and silence enable wartime complicity on Russian YouTube

"Everyone was equal," the kerchiefed babushka of Eli from Russia — a YouTuber who documents everyday life and regional culture across the Russian Federation — tells her granddaughter wistfully, recalling life in the Soviet Union. "There were no rich and poor." And as Russian missiles strike Ukrainian cities, Eli's grandmother remembers something else with longing: "We worked for our country. And it was united." The Russian public's complicity in the war of aggression against Ukraine is confoun

Screenshot from "Eli from Russia" YouTube channel.

'This is our life' — staff at Kyiv's National Botanical Garden battle to keep plants alive amid war, sub-zero temperatures

On a bitterly cold winter morning inside Kyiv’s M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden, scientist Liudmyla Buyun checks a thermometer mounted against the glass wall of a greenhouse. She pauses, notes the reading, and moves on. The routine repeats several times a day, and sometimes through the night. "This is not a job that ends when you go home," says scientist Liudmyla Buyun. "For many of us, this is our life." Winter has pushed the National Botanical Garden into a daily fight to keep thousan

Employees of the Kyiv National Botanical Garden bring wood to the greenhouse in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Jan. 30, 2026.

How Russia rebuilt hacker gangs to attack the West, leading to a US indictment

Muleshoe, population 5,000, sits in the Texas Panhandle, next to the New Mexico state line, and about as far away from Ukraine as anywhere can be. A small, arid town linked to the outside world by a patchwork of county roads and a smattering of private airports for single-engine planes, it’s about an hour's drive away from the nearest metropolises of Lubbock or Amarillo, and two hours away from Roswell, New Mexico. One could say that Muleshoe is prime territory for cowboys looking to ranch, al

Rethinking Ukraine's economy

What kind of an economy does Ukraine have? This question is not of abstract interest. International financial institutions, supporting governments, private investors — anyone with an economic interest in Ukraine needs to know what they have a stake in. Without having a realistic macroeconomic framework, it's hard to make sense of various economic indicators — like real gross domestic product (GDP) growth, inflation, investment, money demand, imports, exports, and capital flows — they remain is

Trains and freight wagons stand on railway tracks at Lviv Railway Station in Lviv, Ukraine, on Jan. 18, 2022.
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