30 December, 2025
Chef Thierry Marx traveled to Ukraine a few days before the end-of-year holidays, accompanied by Caroline Leclercq, Deputy Mayor of the City of Le Havre—partner city of Mariupol (Маріупольська міська рада)—as well as teams from Cuisine Mode d’Emploi(s) and Stand With Ukraine.
Lviv was the first stop of this visit.
The day began at the Field of Mars, a military cemetery where many Ukrainian defenders who fell in combat are buried. We paid tribute to those who sacrificed their lives for Ukraine. Candles were lit during a particularly moving moment of remembrance, highlighting the human cost of the war.
The visit continued with a culinary masterclass at Lviv’s vocational high school for hospitality and catering, led by Thierry Marx and his team for students and their teachers. This was a m...
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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.
Energy has becom...
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