From office work to drone drops: Ordinary Ukrainians join wartime supply effort

Photo caption: Maksim Karpo operates machinery at Metal Workshop on April 16, 2022, in Lviv, Ukraine… Photo credit: Brendan Hoffman for NBC News. Article by Phil McCausland. NBC News – April 22, 2022.

LVIV, Ukraine — He once sold pots, cookie cutters and pizza pans. His company in this city in west Ukraine even sold metal wine racks to Ikea. But the war left Maksym Andrushchyshyn to contend not just with the existential threat of Russians invading his homeland, but with $100,000 of canceled orders and no regular business beyond the war effort. […]

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