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"We’re all on the same side". How Ukrainian soldiers posed as Russians to escape

March, the settlement of Rozlyv in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Everything is soaked: the walls of the few houses still standing are damp, and the relentless, heavy rumble of artillery tears through the wet expanse of the steppe. It is impossible to tell where the fog ends and the smoke from fires begins. Second lieutenant Serhii, a mechanized platoon commander with the call sign Boxer, came face to face with two groups of Russian stormtroopers. The first was wiped out in the settlement. The second led to a "conversation" that saved his life.Читати українською
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How the Lima EW system helps protect Kyiv from Russian missiles

Fierce fighting is raging on this stretch of the frontline. But this is a different kind of war — one invisible to the naked eye, unfolding every night in the skies above Ukraine’s capital. There are no missile launches, bright flashes, or loud blasts. There is only the low hum of generators and five seconds between the air raid alert and the activation of electronic warfare (EW) systems. Today, the security of Kyiv’s strategic sites rests in the hands of units where a journalistic report begins not with theory, but with an order to switch off your phone in advance.Читати українською
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Koncha-Zaspa is to blame for everything. How trolls and bots shift the blame for Russian attacks

Koncha-Zaspa is to blame for everything. How trolls and bots shift the blame for Russian attacks
"While we’re being bombed, Koncha-Zaspa is sleeping peacefully!! And that’s because they’ve MADE A DEAL. A DEAL, 100%," a bot wrote in a comment under a video of a Russian attack on Kyiv in early November 2024. The comment received 247 likes and sparked a heated discussion.Читати українською
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Crying, laughing and getting through another day of war

Crying, laughing and getting through another day of war
September, 7 a.m. The alarm jolts me out of a fitful sleep. Hand reaches for the phone to silence the annoying tune and automatically open the Kyiv Digital app notifications. The screen is its familiar mix of yellow, green, and red. This is the kind of "traffic light" that signals the start and end of air raid alerts. In September, there were 190 of them, lasting a total of 243 hours and 14 minutes, or more than 10 days. The first pressing question: should I take my child to school? It’s just the two of us, my eight-year-old son and me. His dad is in the military, I have a job, and there are no relatives nearby to help.Читати українською
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Russia’s curve. Is the enemy moving toward defeat

Texty.org.ua has built an ENTIRELY SUBJECTIVE model for assessing the situation in Russia. We took indicators from different areas of life — from the state of the economy to events at the front and the mood inside the country — and assigned each one a weight. The budget deficit, for example, weighs more than public discontent. We combined the indicators we chose into a single curve, to see where Russia is heading overall: whether it still has a margin of safety, or is moving toward exhaustion and therefore toward being unable to continue the war, or even toward disintegration.Читати українською
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Dozens of familiar names on one site. Viktor Medvedchuk’s propagandists reappear

For years, dozens of TV hosts, political analysts and officials fed Ukrainians pro-Russian narratives on the airwaves of 112 Ukraine, NewsOne and ZIK, channels linked to Viktor Medvedchuk. After February 2022, some left Ukraine, while others were suspected of treason. But they are still at work. We found almost all of them on govorit.tv, the latest guise of a propaganda project that has already been sanctioned twice by the UK. Medvedchuk’s crew continues to pose as "experts from Ukraine", making predictions that spell catastrophe for Ukraine every time.Читати українською
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Underground schools. How Zaporizhzhia is getting children back into class despite Russian attacks

Underground schools. How Zaporizhzhia is getting children back into class despite Russian attacks
"When our daughter is in an underground school, we feel safer," parents say. In Zaporizhzhia and the surrounding area, 23 underground schools have been built. They continue operating even during Russian attacks involving aerial bombs and ballistic missiles. Meanwhile, half of Kyiv’s students do not attend school at all and study remotely — which means they are not really learning, as online classes are interrupted by air raid alerts. Children who do attend school also struggle to study properly because they have to run to shelters during attacks.Texty.org.ua looks at how an underground school in Zaporizhzhia operates, how much it costs to build one, and whether such schools can be built quickly.