As Russia Pounds Donetsk’s Front-Line Cities, a Kharkiv Animal Shelter Pleads for Adopters
Intake at Kharkiv Animal Rescue has tripled since spring, with 1,800 animals waiting for homes.
Ukraine Stories
A Ukrainian Soldier Was Stranded For Months — He Escaped Hanging From a Drone
Stranded alone for months on a front-line position near Kupiansk, 49-year-old Kostiantyn Vlasenko’s rescue required a specially modified heavy-lift drone and a coordinated military…
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…
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…
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…
