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"People are capable of much more than they imagine". How Ukrainian soldiers are coping with the bitter cold

"People are capable of much more than they imagine". How Ukrainian soldiers are coping with the bitter cold
Donetsk region. Four in the morning, and infantrymen move to their combat positions. It is −10°C outside, but according to the soldiers, the frost feels much stronger in the fields, forests, and steppes. They spend a lot of energy not on combat operations, but on fighting the cold. Texty.org.ua tells how soldiers survive in the bitter cold.Читати українською
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How Ukrainians are surviving a total blackout because of Russian attacks

How Ukrainians are surviving a total blackout because of Russian attacks
In movies where all the benefits of civilization have disappeared, everyone is driven by their own selfishness. In reality, it's the opposite: people stick together.Russia dealt another blow to Ukraine's energy sector on December 27, just before the New Year. At that time, residents of the city of Vyshhorod in the Kyiv region were left without electricity for almost 100 hours. Olena, a resident of Vyshhorod, told Texty.org.ua about what it's like to live in winter without electricity, water, or heating.Читати українською
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The pace of advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the enemy in terms of human losses and equipment (infographic)

Recently, the Russians' advance has accelerated, while their level of losses remains unchanged. We have analyzed how certain stages of the Russian-Ukrainian war correlate with the dynamics of territorial losses and gains, as well as the loss of armored vehicles. To do this, we used data from the DeepState and Oryx expert communities.Читати українською
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Alright, the air raid alert is on, here we are. Time to hop out

The MiG took off, the bus pulled to a stop, and the driver switched off the engine. The people in the cabin were quiet, hoping the driver would ignore it and it would come through. But the driver came out of his cab and said in irritation, “Alright, looks like the air raid alert is on, here we are. Time to hop out.” Kyiv remains one of only three Ukrainian regional centers where public transport stops during air raids. No such ban exists even in Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipro, and Zaporizhzhia, where shelling occurs more frequently than in the capital.Читати українськоюText by Valeriia Pavlenko. Data Analysis by Vlad Herasymenko. Design by Nadia Kelm.
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It's easier to buy with your own money. How company cash compensate for gaps in army logistics

It's easier to buy with your own money. How company cash compensate for gaps in army logistics
Company cash is the money that soldiers donate from their monthly salaries for various everyday needs related to their service. This practice exists in almost all of the Ukrainian military units we spoke to.This phenomenon is a vivid manifestation of the self-organization inherent in Ukrainians. Today, at the company level, the army actually has an informal system in place that helps units perform combat missions and maintain combat capability, compensating for the gaps in army logistics and the complexities of the outdated document management system.Читати українською
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I don’t want to be just a face from a screen: Stories of three fathers separated from their children by war

"My family plans to return. Because there is no right to leave a country for a father who wants to see his children, wants them to remain Ukrainians and wants his family not to fall apart. I've seen many good families fall apart since 2022 simply because they were separated. I don't want that to happen to my family," says Oleksii Erinchak, the founder of the "Sens" bookstore in Kyiv.