What to do while in Ukraine

Our players won both matches of this window, in the first game they defeated Greece 82:76. Ukraine will play the next matches in November: on the 26th against Portugal and on the 29th against Montenegro.

Yaroslava Maguchikh and Oleh Doroshchuk won medals in the high jump, and Mykhailo Kokhan won silver in the hammer throw.

Luzan won the victory at the Olympic distance of 200 meters. The athlete was ahead of her closest rival by 0.5 seconds. ▪️This is the ninth gold medal for Luzan in her career at the World Canoeing Championships. At the 2026 World Championships at the distance of 200 m in canoe singles, Lyudmila Luzan performed as the reigning European and world champion.

The Ukrainian won gold in singles para-rowing, beating her closest rival from Belgium by almost 20 seconds. Sheremet defended her world champion title and won gold at the World and European Championships in 2026.

Evgeniy Khmara wears a bracelet.  Each link carries the name of a brother in arms who did not come back from this war.  He said nothing about it until I asked, over dinner in Kyiv this month, and only then explained what the links meant.  It is worth knowing what the new defense minister of Ukraine carries on his wrist into every meeting where the consequences for his country are decided.  Consider the split screen of the past week in Kyiv.  On August 18, Mykhailo Fedorov—the popular former defense minister whose dismissal in July set off the largest wartime protests since the summer of 2025—posted a video calling for Ukraine to find a way to hold elections during the war, the first such demand from a major political figure since the full-scale invasion began, and one widely read in Kyiv as laying the groundwork for a presidential campaign.  The next morning, Ukraine's Parliament confirmed Khmara as minister of defense by a constitutional majori...

Left - chronology of Russian strikes on Ukrainian warehouse infrastructure, starting from February 28, 2022.  The case is the chronology of Ukrainian attacks on Russian warehouse infrastructure.  Ukraine struck its first blow against Russian warehouses (Wildberries) on July 18, 2026.  By that time, Russia had been hammering Ukrainian warehouses with impunity for four and a half years.  Separately, pay attention to the Russian strikes since May 31 of this year - in just over a month, Russia has struck nine strikes against Ukrainian warehouses, that is, on average, they hit twice a week.  And only after a month with more continuous strikes, Ukraine finally hit the Wildberries for the first time.  Moreover, the list of Russian strikes here is far from complete - there was, for example, a strike on Ukrainian warehouses on May 24, which is not marked on the schedule.  In general, this is only a very small and very selective list of Russian strik...