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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.
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"They’re already here". Who brought migrants into Ukraine’s information space and how

"They’re already here". Who brought migrants into Ukraine’s information space and how
On May 23, 2026, a rally against the recruitment of foreign workers and labor migration took place on Independence Square in Kyiv. Young men wearing masks held flags associated with a far-right community, while women stood with signs reading "Ukraine for Ukrainians" and "For a White Ukraine". Several dozen people attended this and other rallies in cities across Ukraine. However, social media posts described them as "mass rallies across Ukraine".Читати українською
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Gas, heat and electricity. What awaits Ukrainians this winter

The coming winter will not be easier than the last one, Prime Minister of Ukraine Serhii Koretskyi said. Last year, Russia primarily targeted electricity and heating infrastructure in Kyiv and other major cities, and there is no reason to believe things will be different this time. But there are some important differences this year. We looked at why attacks on combined heat and power plants (CHPPs) and thermal power plants (TPPs) could pose the biggest threat this winter, which regions could come under Russian attack, and how Ukraine’s energy system is holding up. Here’s what we found.Читати українською
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Visits by foreign partners are indeed Kyiv’s fine air defense (INFOGRAPHIC)

Ukrainian jokes about the "Keith Kellogg’s operating range", the "Duty roster for Western officials in Kyiv", and "The prince has arrived, girls — everyone’s sleeping naked tonight" are funny precisely because they’re true.Texty.org.ua, in collaboration with the StratCom of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, analyzed Kyiv’s air alert archives for 2026. The "popular wisdom" saying that Russian strikes decline when visible support rises is largely backed up by the data.Читати українською
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Underground cities. How Ukrainian infantry survive under fire

The modern front line is steadily moving underground, echoing some of the darkest episodes of World War I and its "mole-like" existence. But now, instead of the filthy trenches of trench warfare, infantry are forced to take shelter underground, seeking refuge from the total dominance of drones. Lieutenant Colonel Roman Kovalov, commander of the motorized infantry battalion of the 43rd Separate Mechanized Brigade, explains how these "underground positions" are organized and defended.Читати українською