Ukraine — Standing amid ruins in east Ukraine, Ruslan Mokrytskyi held a combat knife and concentrated on cutting onions without crying. As trivial as it seems on the front line, it's still not easy.

The mustachioed 32-year-old in military fatigues instructed his comrade to get the right shot of him with his phone. The angle matters. Mokrytskyi is one of Ukraine's soldier-influencers helping to ...

Authentic dishes disappeared from Ukrainian dinner tables, going underground, in the early 20th century when the Soviet Union absorbed "the breadbasket of Europe." "The USSR wasn't just another ...

The wind chill factor takes the late February air temperature down to minus 3 celsius. It could be Kyiv but it's actually Stratford, East London. Upon entering XIX, a Ukrainian restaurant only a few ...

Anna Voloshyna faces a chef’s dilemma: She hasn’t had much of an appetite lately — curbed by the anxiety over whether her family remains safe back home near the port city of Kherson in southern ...

My dream is that some of them will become generals,’ says the head of gender affairs for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The key eastern Ukraine ...

Cooking meat is not only an art but also a process that demands attention to detail. Achieving the perfect result requires ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has launched a ...