Kateryna Skurydina goes to bed wearing thermal underwear, two jumpers and a scarf. She covers herself with a down duvet and two blankets. But her secret weapon is her cat, Pushok.

In January 1944, Soviet forces launched a massive winter encirclement in central Ukraine, closing a steel ring around tens of ...

Ukraine’s historic Chernihiv biathlon and cross-country training center, which produced the country’s first Olympic medalist, ...