Amira Barkhush

After more than four years of high-intensity war, Ukraine and Ukrainians have developed essential routines for survival. Everyone has their own, and it is not uncommon for people to debate which decisions to make based on their individual situation and potential risks. Life in Ukraine is a high-intensity risk management exercise. In Kyiv, going down into the subway has become one of these routines.

For years, Ukraine came to Western defense exhibitions looking for weapons. At MSPO this year, European and allied manufacturers were increasingly looking back at Ukraine—at technologies developed, tested, and scaled during more than four years of full-scale war.

Representatives of different faiths and backgrounds are fighting shoulder to shoulder to deter the Russian aggression. In Kyiv, a wall of remembrance was opened to commemorate the Muslim soldiers who gave their all for Ukraine.

Religious leaders, military chaplains, journalists, diplomats, and international supporters gathered in Kyiv to pray for Ukraine—and to reflect on what faith, justice, and solidarity mean more than four years into Russia’s full-scale war.

From roughly 450 kilometers above Earth, Jannicke Mikkelsen was looking through the window of her spacecraft when she noticed something moving between her and the Earth below. She saw a fireball, a meteor maybe? But it behaved differently.

For over 20 years, Oleksii Yukov went where few others would, searching battlefields for the missing and bringing the fallen back to their families. Today, Ukraine gathered in Kyiv to say goodbye.