The second full year of the war was the one in which the temporary arrangements became permanent ones. Reviewing it is mostly an exercise in noticing…
The first Christmas on the December date. A calendar moved after four centuries, and households worked out for themselves what to do with the change.
On 14 December 2023 the European Council decided to open accession negotiations with Ukraine. Eighteen months earlier the country had been granted candidate status with seven…
An exhibition of early twentieth-century Ukrainian art opened in Spain at the end of 2023. The works were rescued, and the argument they make is one…
A greeting on the first December date, and a note on the year the day moved.
Children are disproportionately the victims of explosive remnants, for reasons that are entirely predictable and therefore addressable.
War does not suspend cancer, diabetes or childhood immunisation. Maintaining routine healthcare has been a quieter and larger task than trauma care.
Ninety years, and a candle in the window. The shortest of these messages, deliberately.
The winter of 2022 was survived by improvisation. The winter of 2023 was prepared for, and the difference between those two words is most of the…
The least discussed form of assistance to Ukraine is also the largest in effect: money that pays teachers, doctors and pensions so the state can spend…
Humanitarian assistance in the third winter of the war concentrated on something specific and unglamorous: making damaged buildings weatherproof before the frost, because a repaired roof…
By late 2023 the European Union was preparing a further package, and the arguments inside it revealed exactly where the political limits sat.
A continuous record of the Ukrainian market, quarter by quarter and year by year: output, currency, trade, sectors and what each period settled.
Growth, inflation, the hryvnia, budgets and the macro-financial programmes that keep Ukraine's economy running.
Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
The ritual year, the symbols embroidered into cloth and painted onto eggs, the Carpathian practitioners and the philosophers — the older layer beneath modern Ukraine.
Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
The primary sources this archive rests on. All of them official bodies or institutional data providers.
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