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Yelyzaveta Sekretarenko

Yelyzaveta Sekretarenko works as a television editor. She is a graduate of the Kyiv Independent J-School's 2.0 in 2024. With experience in media production, she focuses on storytelling and covering human-centered stories.

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A bakery worker sifts flour to bake bread in Druzhkivka, Ukraine on Dec. 16, 2024.

‘We are where we're needed:’ The local entrepreneurs, businesses who stay in front-line Donetsk Oblast

by Yelyzaveta Sekretarenko
DRUZHKIVKA, Donetsk Oblast — A loud explosion goes off, followed by a second. People begin to run in different directions. Despite the chaos, taxi driver Serhiy Pohrebnyakov sits calmly behind the wheel, waiting for customers. Pohrebnyakov’s wife and daughter fled Druzhkivka after the start of the full-scale invasion, leaving him alone in the town. Amid near-daily Russian attacks, Pohrebnyakov goes out on his route every day to make money to help his family, he says. “I work to earn money for