How Small Businesses Help Build Ukraine’s Drone Arsenal
A Lviv company began with an idea for finding a captured relative. Now it makes some 30 types of drones — and 80% of…
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These Small Businesses Are Building Ukraine’s Drone Arsenal
Ukraine’s drone industry is not driven only by large defense manufacturers. Small private companies are developing new unmanned systems for the battlefield, often responding…
The American Dad Running Kharkiv’s ‘Hell’s Kitchen’
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Edward Wilton spent most of his adult life working as an attorney in Florida. His son, also Edward, chose a very different path,…
A Florida Lawyer Lost His Son in Ukraine. Now He’s a Volunteer Cooks 20 Kilometers From the Front
Edward Wilton's son was killed in the Luhansk region at 23. His father answered the loss by coming to Ukraine himself — to a…
Apathy and Great Concern ‘Look Exactly the Same’: Reading Russia After the Duma Vote
Three Russia scholars on what message Putin is sending with his new Duma — and why United Russia's heavily managed election result may mean…
U.S. Marine Spent 635 Days Fighting Russia. Now He’s in Washington
Matthew Sampson served in the U.S. Marine Corps and deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Then, in 2022, he volunteered to fight in Ukraine. He…
An Underwater Archaeologist Came Back From War to Discover a Piece of Ukraine’s Lost History
Dmytro Kobaliia left an underwater expedition to fight. The war that interrupted his work also revealed a wreck — and an international mission to…
He Left His Superyacht Life to Volunteer in Ukraine — Then A Russian Drone Hit Him
Eddie Scott came to Ukraine from a life at sea, working on luxury superyachts and travelling the world. He planned to volunteer for just…
THIS U.S. VETERAN LOST TWO LIMBS FIGHTING FOR UKRAINE. HE WANTS TO REJOIN THE FIGHT
“They took my arm and my leg, but I’m not gonna let them break my spirit.” Matthew Cha, a 29-year-old U.S. Army veteran from…
