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eVidnovlennia in the Donetsk oblast: How the state program works in practice
eVidnovlennia in the Donetsk oblast: How the state program works in practice
There is no need to fear selling property under the eVidnovlennia program. If you work with professional realtors, notaries, and lawyers, everything will go smoothly for both parties...
Housing boom against IDPs: Fleeing the war? Leave behind your children, the elderly, and pets
Housing boom against IDPs: Fleeing the war? Leave behind your children, the elderly, and pets
Displaced people have become easy targets for unscrupulous landlords. Unfortunately, even having a rental agreement doesn't always protect tenants...
Bread, evacuation, 20 residents, and the missing 82-year-old Nadiia Myroshnychenko: daily life of the free Luhansk oblast
Bread, evacuation, 20 residents, and the missing 82-year-old Nadiia Myroshnychenko: daily life of the free Luhansk oblast
The woman likely went looking for a place with mobile signal to call her son. She most likely triggered an explosive device, and wild animals scattered her remains...
Ukraine is ramping up drone production: issues and challenges
Ukraine is ramping up drone production: issues and challenges
73% of surveyed defense industry manufacturers see no steps from the government to improve conditions for conducting defense business in Ukraine...
12-hour calls, reforms, and "Nadiia". How the ambulance service operates in the frontline Dnipropetrovsk oblast
12-hour calls, reforms, and "Nadiia". How the ambulance service operates in the frontline Dnipropetrovsk oblast
The number of calls has increased... We all understand why. We have daily transports of military personnel; I won’t specify the locations. Military medics work first, and we pick up the wounded from first-contact hospitals or stabilization points...
Life prevails. How frontline communities in the Zaporizhzhia oblast are living
Life prevails. How frontline communities in the Zaporizhzhia oblast are living
On the evening of August 20, the russian army struck the village of Malokaterynivka, which is part of the Kushuhum community. The occupiers hit the children's café Lavanda. As a result of the strike, a 15-year-old teenager, Dmytro Hrechanyk, died in the hospital...
Pavlo Kyrylenko and everyone else (who didn't get the recognition they deserved)
Pavlo Kyrylenko and everyone else (who didn't get the recognition they deserved)
Opportunities for quick illicit enrichment in the war-torn region have been there all along, but have been changing...
Ways to leave occupied territories: current methods
Ways to leave occupied territories: current methods
August 6, the humanitarian corridor Pokrovka-Kolotilovka on the border with the Sumy oblast unexpectedly ceased operations. The russian side suddenly stopped allowing Ukrainians to pass through without providing any explanation, and the closure is indefinite.
Putin's "clever" move, or What lies behind Erdogan's grand gesture
Putin's "clever" move, or What lies behind Erdogan's grand gesture
For the kremlin, this means nothing but growing protest sentiments. That’s why it’s so crucial for it to ease sanctions, even if just a little. For example, through a trick with the "Black Sea grain initiative". But will this trick work? Probably not...
Will it ever be bought? The war and the land market: what was expected and feared
Will it ever be bought? The war and the land market: what was expected and feared
Even if the war ends and territories are liberated, as almost a large portion of agricultural land in these areas will require lengthy and expensive demining, reclamation, and similar processes...
Belarus and sanctions: on a short leash
Belarus and sanctions: on a short leash
By providing the russian army with territory to invade Ukraine, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko made his country an accomplice in war crimes and a target of international sanctions in February 2022...
Donetsk residents are being barred from returning home. Donetsk journal
Donetsk residents are being barred from returning home. Donetsk journal
Since October last year, getting home with a Donetsk registration and a Ukrainian passport has been like winning the lottery. You might get lucky, or you might not...
"Crimeaisours" is not yours! Luhansk journal
"Crimeaisours" is not yours! Luhansk journal
Crimea has become empty. There are few people but many military personnel. For our people, it's just right, but for the russians, it's scary. Furthermore, flights are halted, and taking a train takes too long...
Land reform, raiders, war and more... What farmers in the frontline Dnipropetrovsk oblast are not silent about
Land reform, raiders, war and more... What farmers in the frontline Dnipropetrovsk oblast are not silent about
What's concerning about this reform? During the war, the ability to concentrate up to 10,000 hectares in one person's hands is a bad idea. Imagine a farmer buying these 10,000 hectares in one community. This creates a monopoly, and monopoly breeds corruption...
Tax increase: forgotten promises
Tax increase: forgotten promises
These are taxes paid out of the pockets of ordinary citizens. No one is suggesting raising the corporate profit tax, the tax on shareholder dividends (investment income tax), royalties for mineral extraction, or the environmental tax. These are taxes paid out of the pockets of oligarchs...
Personnel issues in the President's Office: fewer loyalists remain
Personnel issues in the President's Office: fewer loyalists remain
Just look at how many ministers are currently "acting" ministers. When it's said that many want to leave but are not allowed to, it's more than true. This applies to both the government and parliament"...
Ecological disaster, inevitable punishment for collaborators, and entrepreneurs’ challenges: Artem Lysohor discussed the sore points of the Luhansk oblast
Ecological disaster, inevitable punishment for collaborators, and entrepreneurs’ challenges: Artem Lysohor discussed the sore points of the Luhansk oblast

Fewer than 50 — NOT thousands, but INDIVIDUALS. It's difficult to explain even to fellow journalists from other partially occupied regions of Ukraine that the number of residents in the free territory of the Luhansk oblast is counted not in thousands but in individuals...

Admission campaign for residents of the occupied territories: conditions and benefits
Admission campaign for residents of the occupied territories: conditions and benefits
Firstly, the journey has become very complicated, it's long, expensive, and unsafe. Secondly, the horrors of mobilization that we see do not encourage young people to move. If he leaves and enrolls in a university, he will automatically become non-eligible to leave Ukraine...
Energy sector: the unavoidable burden of tariffs
Energy sector: the unavoidable burden of tariffs
The task of balancing the energy system was performed by thermal power plants and combined heat and power plants. Therefore, planned power outages for the population and enterprises are inevitable...
"Changing their perspective": soldiers share their experiences of treatment after injuries in Ukraine
"Changing their perspective": soldiers share their experiences of treatment after injuries in Ukraine
Thus, the fate of each wounded person is decided by the military doctor responsible for the referral. Some are fortunate enough to end up in the right place. Viktor Komarnytsky was not so lucky...
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