So, archive.today being apparently garbage, what are some other good resources to archive websites (saver for just downloading the page as PDF)? techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/w...
So, archive.today being apparently garbage, what are some other good resources to archive websites (saver for just downloading the page as PDF)? techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/w...
The chalkboard that hangs behind the bar at Squat 17b does not list the drink specials — it keeps a countdown of how many more days Ukrainians must endure the harsh winter that has gripped the war-weary country.
On Thursday, it read: “Days until spring: 24.”
w/ @fabricedeprez.bsky.social
When I wrote this story in November, Ukrainian Railways had just closed the Kramatorsk train station & moved the terminus to Barvinkove. Russia is using more precise Shahed drones to hit individual trains & expand the "kill zone", the area under constant drone threat www.ft.com/content/6c58...
Those looking to go to Kramatorsk by train can currently only buy tickets to Lozova, 90 km west of the biggest Ukr-controlled city of the Donetsk region. Last leg of the journey can only be done in cars or buses, driving under anti-drone nets as they edge closer to Kramatorsk.
Ukrainian Railways writes this morning that the route from Lozova (in the Kharkiv region) to the Donbas fortress of Kramatorsk remains a zone "of increased risk", days after a Russian drone strike on a passenger train near Barvinkove killed 4 people.
More broadly, there is I think a general tendency to confuse (purposely or not) causes and choices: the causes of the 2022 Russian invasion are of course to be found on both sides of the war; but the choice of launching it only belongs to one actor.
The Long War #55: Dark Kyiv, Ukraine's regional shift, the Mariupol-Donetsk rivalry & more
eastradar.substack.com/p/the-long-w...
Very interesting post (“Russia was sucked into the Donbas conflict” is quite an incredible Sakwa quote).
Ukraine keeps trains running as end of line draws closer- Ukraine’s sprawling railway network has emerged as an indispensable means of transport and a symbol of resilience in the wake of Moscow’s full-scale invasion in 2022…
www.ft.com/content/6c58... @fabricedeprez.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Mon interview de l'intellectuel et historien ukrainien Yaroslav Hrytsak dans @grandcontinent.bsky.social legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/1...
"Libres de résister" : excellent tour d'horizon par @fabricedeprez.bsky.social des enjeux liés à la mobilisation en Ukraine depuis 2022, avec plein d'exemples et d'anecdotes parlantes.
A lire sur le @grandcontinent.bsky.social :
Ten die in ‘massive’ Russian attack on Ukrainian capital on.ft.com/45TE5l7
Pourquoi l'Ukraine peine à mobiliser ? Une longue explication dans @grandcontinent.bsky.social :
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/2...
Russia launched 352 drones as well as 16 missiles over Ukraine last night--with Kyiv being the main target for the fourth time in the past month, Ukraine's air force reports this morning t.me/kpszsu/36914
My look at the drone-focused technological arms race between Ukraine and Russia: interceptors, fiber optics drones, and the prospect of AI-powered autonomous UAVs looming over the battlefield www.ft.com/content/ccd8...
Mon reportage sur l'impossible vie à Kherson, alors que des experts de l'ONU viennent de qualifier de "crime contre l'humanité" les attaques constantes de drones russes contre les habitants de cette ville du sud de l'Ukraine www.la-croix.com/internationa...
Mon reportage sur l'impossible vie à Kherson, alors que des experts de l'ONU viennent de qualifier de "crime contre l'humanité" les attaques constantes de drones russes contre les habitants de cette ville du sud de l'Ukraine www.la-croix.com/internationa...
...signs of life to avoid having the property seized by the military of occupation authorities. They'd open the windows, turn on the lights from time to time, water the plants. But this has often stopped working as Ru authorities got more aggressive.
The piece also mentions how Russian authorities use the pretext of properties showing “signs of being ownerless”. For a while, many Ukrainians who fled the occupied territories stayed in touch with neighbors who would take care of their properties and maintain...
...which, as the piece highlights, involves going through FSB filtration at Moscow airport. Some Ukrainians have nevertheless done the grueling trip for fear of losing their homes (or so that they can sell it, rather than simply have it be taken from them)...
Really good piece on the way Russia is methodically dispossessing Ukrainians of their homes. It's of course not happening only in Mariupol. And, in the past months, it has pushed an unclear number of Ukrainians to make the dangerous trip to the occupied territories...
Moscow claims the strike in Kryvhyy Rih that killed 9 children targeted a restaurant where soldiers and "foreign mercenaries" had gathered. Footage found by @gullivercragg.bsky.social shows a near-empty restaurant, and no soldiers anywhere www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
I'm still very skeptical that Moscow has any intention to go for a ceasefire in the short term. But the one thing that could encourage Putin to agree to a ceasefire is the prospect of Ukrainian elections that would be fertile ground for destabilization.
"According to two Russian diplomats and a source close to the Kremlin, Moscow is now focusing on a third option: discrediting Zelensky in the eyes of Trump so that Washington will pressure Kyiv to hold presidential elections"
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/30/k...
...and vice-versa: if it is unacceptable to speak Russian as a Ukrainian, then it has to be because, even in some tiny ways, speaking Russian does make someone a little bit Russian (something I don't think is true at all, to be clear) kyivindependent.com/explainer-wh...
Pure coincidence, but this piece from @kyivindependent.com also provides a great example of the tension at the heart of the language discussion in Ukraine. This quote and headline are mutually exclusive: if speaking Rus doesn't make one Russian, it can't be unacceptable to speak Russian...
The paradoxes of the language discussion: a linguist hopes that Russian will in the future be spoken only by "marginalized people" in Ukraine, saying this in an interview ran by NV, which publishes all its stories in Ukrainian... and Russian nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/...
NEW: Ukrainian forces lose ground in Kursk region as they fight on without US support.
Read @fabricedeprez.bsky.social and Anastasia Stognei's report
www.ft.com/content/0513...
#datviz
Une très belle lettre, avec des choses qu'il est souvent assez compliqué de placer dans nos articles. Pas d'actu, mais de l'Ukraine et des Ukrainiens :