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Will Ukraine face the hardest vote in decades?
To understand the risks of holding elections in Ukraine now, one should recall 2014, when voting was marked by abductions and violence. Oleksii, a…
 • Mariana Lastovyria and Anastasiia Kryvoruchenko
Blackout roulette in Ukraine’s elevators
The simplest things, like elevators, become vitally important when they disappear. Elevator mechanic Oleksandr ensures Ukrainians can always reach tall…
 • Tania Novakivska
NEWSFLASH: Zelenskyy readies for elections in 60-90 days
He asked for two preconditions for the holding of elections, which would plunge Ukraine into a campaign in the midst of a war. "Look, I am ready for…
 • Tim Mak and Mariana Lastovyria
How we gave Ukrainian orphans a visit from Santa.
St. Nicholas, the Ukrainian Santa, is popular for his good deeds and for always helping kids in need. Tania and Nastia went to an orphanage to create a…
 • Anastasiia Kryvoruchenko and Tania Novakivska
Trump's strategy for a diminished America
The White House just put out a National Security Strategy, laying out its principle of “flexible realism”: a dwindling and darker role for America in…
 • Tim Mak
How China would cut Taiwan off
Despite talk of invasion, a blockade of Taiwan is looking like a real possibility. China’s Coast Guard keeps crossing the median line of the Taiwan…
 • Elaine Lin
The 24 hours after a Shahed attack
There’s news every day about Shahed attacks on Ukraine, but nobody talks in detail about what happens after the drone is shot down. We broke it down…
 • Mariana Lastovyria
Cards that may get you in trouble
Thousands of Ukrainian families are waiting for updates on the fates of their missing soldiers. Some are turning to fortune-tellers who do not have…
 • Anastasiia Kryvoruchenko

November 2025

A phony peace process to appease Trump
First, we have to start with what Ukrainians would consider victory. Working backwards from that, we see that the ongoing diplomacy is a charade.
 • Tim Mak
NEWSFLASH: Zelenskyy’s Chief of Staff will leave his position
One of the most influential figures in Zelenskyy’s inner circle and the man leading Ukraine’s negotiators in the peace talks, Andrii Yermak, has…
 • Tania Novakivska and Anastasiia Kryvoruchenko
A very Ukrainian thanksgiving
Celebrating Thanksgiving this year without turkey, with mulled wine, and in dim candlelight, our team shares words of gratitude via video. Nastia later…
 • Anastasiia Kryvoruchenko
NEWSFLASH: Witkoff was secretly giving Russians advice
A secret transcript reveals that the Trump envoy was helping a Putin advisor formulate a plan.
 • Jacqueline Cole, Mariana Lastovyria, and Tim Mak
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