American Veteran Fights Russia in Ukraine, Survives Drone Strike
🇺🇸🇺🇦 He served in Afghanistan. Then he volunteered to fight for Ukraine. But this was a completely different kind of war. Towle, a 35-year-old former…
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The Urgent Race to Save Ukraine’s Front-Line Pets
🐾🇺🇦 Thousands of dogs and cats have been left behind as Russia’s war forces families to flee their homes in eastern Ukraine. Some have…
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…
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…
