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Our next episode of Ukraine Through the Eyes of Others features John Sweeney, a British writer, reporter, and formerly investigative journalist at BBC, currently covering the Russian war against Ukraine. In this interview, he shares his thoughts on Russia’s systematic...
Kormotech is a Lviv family-owned company, one of the world’s top 70 best producers of dog and cat food. They export 20 per cent of production, producing pet food at two factories in Ukraine and one in Lithuania. Changing the...
The last few days have changed the course of European history. The Russian Federation, supported by the Republic of Belarus, openly attacked Ukraine, aiming to replace the government in a sovereign country. Ukrainians have put up considerable resistance to the...
The long-standing city of Kamianets-Podilskyi is known for its fortress, organic mix of cultures from various nations, and vivid festival life. The most remarkable of those, in particular, are the hot air balloon festivals. This story is about falling in...
In 2014, Dariia Yaremchuk from Lviv and Vadym Khrebtov from Crimea founded ‘Green’, Lviv’s first vegetarian cafe. The lack of high-quality plant-based foods pushed them to establish their own brand, ‘Zelena Korova’ (‘Green Cow’ — tr.). Now they are one...
On the 10th of October, Russian troops launched a massive shelling of the territory of Ukraine. 83 rockets were fired at infrastructure facilities of various cities, 43 of them were shot down by the Air Defense Forces of Ukraine. 20...
As of December 2021, when the Russian/Ukrainian war was already going on, but the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation against Ukraine had not yet begun, 57,000 women served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, almost 22% of the Armed...
Ukrainian travelers in the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries were driven by a desire to explore the world, and they played an important role in the nation’s cultural, scientific, and social life. The world travelers visited remote corners of the...
The Museum of Ideas in Lviv has always been a place of origin for various initiatives: the festival of independent movies ‘KinoLev’, the first glass foundry workshop, a gallery, a refectory and even a fictitious republic began here. The Museum...
Yachting in Ukraine has long been not only a maritime thing. The Dnipro river is also a perfect place for the development of sailing and ecotourism. Today, on the Dnipro, there are numerous yacht clubs, sailing schools, and traditional annual...
