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S1E26 From War Drones to Dinner Delivery | Ukrainian Diaries #26
How curfews, ride-hailing and technology reshape life in Kyiv after dark.Enjoy the episode or read a 2-minute reflection here.You can support my work here.Photo by Alin Gavriliuc on Unsplash
S1E25 Ukraine Is Building | Ukrainian Diaries #25
Ukrainian real estate market: not an investment pitch but a window into how a country at war adapts.Enjoy the episode or read a 2-minute reflection here.You can support my work here.Image: bunker…
S1E24 Spending Habits, Magic Carpet Logistics | Ukrainian Diaries #24
Ukrainians spend 84% of their monthly budgets on essentials. In Germany and the Netherlands, that number is 56-59%. Only 1% goes to leisure in Ukraine, while in France it’s 19%.One important caveat —…
S1E19 The Cappuccino Index | Ukrainian Diaries #23
Kyiv has a kind of small business you won’t find in most cities. But rising energy costs and inflation are not helping those who miscalculated. This week’s episode is about MAFs.Enjoy the episode or…
S1E18 Beyond the Instagram Wedding | Ukrainian Diaries #22
I am, fortunately, a pleasant enough person that people keep inviting me to their weddings. I have been to enough weddings, in places like Paris, Istanbul, Slovakia, across Ukraine, and in other…
S1E17 Standup Comedy In Ukraine | Ukrainian Diaries #21
Ukrainian stand-up didn’t start in a club with a brick wall and a microphone. It began in the post-Soviet 90s, shared on audiocassettes.At the center of it all was someone most people know from…
S1E16 The Black Prize | Ukrainian Diaries #20
While the world watches gas prices, I stand on the black prize.All eyes are on the Middle East and the surging price of oil, the “black gold.” We know its price will eventually dictate the cost of…
S1E15 Expect Princess Treatment | Ukrainian Diaries #19
Talking from exoerience living in multiple countries, Ukrainian service culture has a special quality that you might not notice until you leave. It’s not just about being available, though that…
S1E14 Rethinking Guilt | Ukrainian Diaries #18
Everyone in their place. Not everywhere at once. Not helping with everything because the guilt of not doing enough feels louder than the question of where you actually belong.Enjoy the episode or…
S1E13 Can You Joke About War | Ukrainian Diaries #17
When the whole world was searching “World War Three,” Ukraine’s top search was “When is Easter in 2026.”I noticed that and laughed. Then I thought about it for a while.That is not indifference.Dark…
S1E12 Why You Feel Disconnected From Relatives and Closer to Strangers | Ukrainian Diaries #16
A foreigner who shows up, who understands, who acts, who holds the same values, feels closer than a relative who hedges despite having a Ukrainian passport. That line used to be invisible. Four years…
S1E11 Now They Come to Us | Ukrainian Diaries #15
I haven’t heard a certain sound in a while that wakes me up at night. The one between a broken lawnmower and an old car that refuses to start. A Shahed — an Iranian drone Russia buys to hit Ukrainian…
S1E10 Spring Potholes = Kyiv’s Meditation | Ukrainian Diaries #14
Spring in Kyiv doesn’t start with blooming trees. It starts with the asphalt “blooming” into craters. This week navigating my usual route felt like a high-stakes game of Tetris. I watched drivers…
S1E9 Deferred Comprehension | Ukrainian Diaries #13
When I was fourteen, we had a school poetry evening. We dressed up, rehearsed for weeks and tried to sound much older than we actually were.Growing up in Ukraine, we were exposed to the literary…
S1E8 Logic of Illogical Fears | Ukrainian Diaries #12
Today is the first Friday the 13th of 2026. This year decided not to hold back, giving us a triple dose in February, March, and November. The superstition reaches all the way back to the Last…
S1E7 Words of Affection with a Slavic Stare | Ukrainian Diaries #11
Slavs are often perceived as reserved or even cold. There is that famous “Slavic stare” — a steady, unreadable gaze between a poker face and a quiet observation plus intimidation, a bit of a killer…
S1E6 Dense Days, Abstract Weeks | Ukrainian Diaries #10
Time in Ukraine has stopped behaving. A single day here feels longer than a week used to but not because we have more hours. It is because we pack too much life into every sixty minutes. Enjoy the…
S1E5 Compressed Opportunity and Stability Anxiety | Ukrainian Diaries #9
At some point, you stop measuring days by plans. You start measuring them by electricity. The building chat becomes the most reliable source of truth.— Does the elevator work?— No, the elevator…
S1E4 Icebox Life, Cat Team Building, BBQ Raves at –17°C | Ukrainian Diaries #8
Kyiv is currently a giant icebox where the temperature has hit –17°C (1.4°F) and 16-hour daily blackouts have become the new, brutal standard. While Russian strikes attempt to freeze our endurance,…
S1E3 Rocco and Virtual Karma: a Border Control Thriller | Ukrainian Diaries #7
Crossing into Ukraine by land is a test of patience but for a girl named Daria on a bus from Italy, it became a Netflix-level drama. And so it was for Ukrainians and me today. Enjoy the episode or…
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