Institutions, governance, corruption, elections deferred — how a state holds itself together under permanent emergency.
From October 2022 the energy system came under sustained attack. What arrived from Europe in response was not a policy document. It was autotransformers on low-loaders…
When Kherson was liberated in November 2022, the sappers went in almost immediately. Clearance is not what happens after recovery. It is the thing that has…
The territory recovered in the Kharkiv region in September 2022 was not mostly urban. It was farmland, and clearing farmland is a different problem with a…
Ukraine holds some of the largest gas storage capacity in Europe. Filling it before the winter of 2022 was a financing problem more than an engineering…
In March the Ukrainian grid was connected to Europe as an emergency measure. By the end of June it was selling electricity into the European market…
When the withdrawal from the Kyiv region came at the end of March 2022, the towns north of the capital could not simply be reoccupied. Every…
Ukraine disconnected from the post-Soviet grid on 24 February for a scheduled isolation test and never reconnected. On 16 March its power system was synchronised with…
Ukraine had been clearing explosive remnants in the east since 2015, with international operators working alongside the State Emergency Service. That experience became the foundation for…
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