Dzvinka Pinchuk

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Cassandra Vinograd |Dzvinka Pinchuk

By Cassandra Vinograd and Dzvinka Pinchuk March 22, 2025 — 3.18pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Slovyansk, Donetsk, Ukraine: Serhii Kovalov doesn’t like sushi. Nor does the sushi chef at his restaurant in eastern Ukraine. But when customers started asking for it, Kovalov navigated both enemy shelling and ordinary supply-chain issues to get fresh fish for Philadelphia rolls to his frontline town, Slovyansk.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Cassandra Vinograd |Dzvinka Pinchuk |Brendan Hoffman

Serhii Kovalov doesn't like sushi. Nor does the sushi chef at his restaurant in eastern Ukraine. But when customers started asking for it, Mr. Kovalov navigated both enemy shelling and ordinary supply-chain issues to get fresh fish for Philadelphia rolls to his frontline town, Sloviansk. Now, as Russian forces have drawn closer and life gets more bleak, many Sloviansk residents are weighing whether to flee. Not Mr. Kovalov.

1 month ago | pilotonline.com | Kim Barker |Dzvinka Pinchuk

KYIV, Ukraine — The teacher needed teenagers for her summer acting class in Kyiv, which would end with the performance of an original play. “This is a course for happy children, free in their thoughts and dreams,” the instructor, Olesia Korzhenevska, wrote on Facebook last spring. It was hard to find happy teenagers in Ukraine. The pandemic and the war with Russia had trapped some young people in their homes, solitary and fearful, for more than four years.