In southern Ukraine, giant reeds are known to populate the wetlands, skirting the Black Sea and stretching from Odesa to Kherson and Mykolaiv. Hollow grasses as tall as seven meters, swaying and pliant, that were the raw materials for the kinds of thatched roofs once common a century ago and more. Since replaced, for a […]
President Volodymyr Zelensky has approved sanctions against 57 captains of Russia’s “shadow fleet”—a network of tankers used to evade sanctions on Russia’s oil trade—and 55 individuals involved in looting Ukraine’s cultural heritage in occupied Crimea. The measure, adopted by Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council on Feb. 5, targets 56 Russian citizens and one Iranian […]