In a time of conflict, Ukraine entrepreneurs make war their business

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LVIV, UKRAINE - Yuriy Zakharchuk once dreamed up combat costumes for the stage, designing everything from medieval armour to space battle suits.

Zakharchuk decided to take his business from the realms of fiction into the real world of war brought to his home city of Kyiv.

In the southern city of Odesa, a local fashion brand had all its divisions, even its lingerie seamstresses, sewing cloth vests to fit body armour plates. Oksana Cherepanych, 36, said it was not only self-interest that fuelled her decision to redirect her company from making hotel and restaurant uniforms into a manufacturer of Ukrainian regimental outfits.

Others, like Zakharchuk, are using this moment of reinvention for missions that border on the quixotic. He is producing ceramic-plated body armour vests - a feat that involved the smuggling of a Soviet-era kiln and enlisting the help of octogenarian scientists.

 

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