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Ukraine's wartime action thriller 'Killhouse' reaches global audience on Netflix

by Kate Tsurkan

Ukraine's new action film "Killhouse" is set to reach a global audience, hitting the Netflix streaming platform on June 26 in Ukraine, with international distribution planned for autumn. Few scenes hit as hard in "Killhouse" as when Ukrainian soldiers decide to launch a high-risk mission to rescue a near-death civilian from the gray zone, a territory sandwiched between Ukrainian and Russian lines. In the film, the Russian commander watching them from his position assumes that the civilian bein

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Ukraine war latest: 'Serious destruction' — massive Russian missile, drone attack on Kyiv kills at least 22, injures nearly 90

Key developments on July 2: * 'Serious destruction' — massive Russian missile, drone attack on Kyiv kills at least 22, injures nearly 90; * Ukraine urgently appeals to nearly 40 allies for Patriot interceptors * Russia's overnight attack destroys around 800,000 Ukrainian books * Ukraine strikes major Russian oil refinery, railway bridge in Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast, General Staff says * Ukraine's Brave1 signs first major Western defense industry partnership with Airbus Waves of Russ

Sweden's Meteor missile: The 'long arm' Ukraine's air force has sorely needed

Soon, Ukraine will have a new weapon: Swedish Gripen fighter jets carrying Meteor missiles, which can hit targets farther away than any missile Ukrainian pilots have now. That extra range could help blunt one of Russia's most destructive weapons by pushing Russian pilots to drop guided bombs from farther behind the front line — shrinking how far those bombs can reach, Ukrainian military aviation expert Andrii Kharuk told the Kyiv Independent. "Here there are two factors: material, or physical,

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How Ukrainian and Belarusian entrepreneurs have set new standards in Warsaw’s café scene

How Ukrainian and Belarusian entrepreneurs have set new standards in Warsaw’s café scene

WARSAW, Poland — Walk into Milk Bar in central Warsaw, and you'll find the new face of the city's café scene. The lines are clean, the lighting deliberate, and the cakes arranged with gallery-like precision. Without an ear for accents, you might never guess that for its owners and staff, it is a second home, rebuilt after war in Ukraine and political repression in Belarus that forced many of them to start over in Poland. Anna Kozachenko launched the original Milk Bar in Kyiv 12 years ago. She

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