24 December, 2025
Cooking together as therapy, as an act of resilience, and as a contribution to Ukraine’s reconstructionOn Sunday in Kyiv, cooking became far more than a culinary art. It emerged as a space for rebuilding, transmission, and human connection, in the service of those whose lives have been profoundly disrupted by war.
On the occasion of the visit to Ukraine by Michelin-starred chef Thierry Marx, with whom Stand With Ukraine has been developing a training program for the past two years aimed at veterans and internally displaced persons, we co-organized—together with Expertise France in Ukraine, NGO Cult Food, and the Embassy of France in Ukraine—an event celebrating dialogue between French and Ukrainian cuisines.
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14 December, 2025
Winter 2025–2026 is shaping up to be critical for civilian populations in Ukraine.Russian strikes are now targeting not only energy infrastructure—power plants and transmission lines—but also the entire energy supply chain.
Since late 2024 and throughout 2025, attacks on energy infrastructure have intensified sharply: more than 80% of the territory has experienced power outages lasting up to 16 hours a day. In several regions—Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Chernihiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia—infrastructure is particularly fragile.
Today, more than 63,000 Ukrainian energy facilities have been damaged by massive strikes and targeted attacks. Damage and losses suffered by Ukraine’s energy sector have exceeded $56 billion, according to an estimate by the KSE Institute as of May 2024.
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4 December, 2025
Serhii is 23 years old and comes from Sumy. He belongs to the young generation whose destiny has been upended by the Russian aggression. Enlisting in the army at 18, he defended Mariupol in 2022 before being taken prisoner. He spent several months in captivity, tortured in the Russian Olenivka prison, which was later bombed by Russian forces themselves, resulting in 53 casualties, all Ukrainian soldiers like Serhii.
Demobilized since 2023, this experience has profoundly marked his life. Today, he is seeking a new path to rebuild himself.
He was one of the 11 trainees of the 2025 cohort, trained this summer by Cuisine Mode d’Emploi-S-, the school of Michelin-starred chef Thierry Marx, in partnership with the instructors from the Jules Lecesne Hotel and Catering High School in Le Havre. Th...
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