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Borshch is a mildly tart vegetable soup dominated by the rich colour and taste of beetroot. Generally, borshch contains many different ingredients, as many as 20, but the combinations and proportions vary according to region of Ukraine , the season, and family tradition.
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Britain, France and Turkey were unlikely allies but they banded together against Imperial Russia, in the Crimean War in the mid 19th century.
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The peninsula of “Crimea” was for years the Soviet Union’s favorite vacation destination—the only sunny warm beach climate they had.
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Kherson is an industrial port, hard hit by the 2022 Russian invasion and before that economic woes.
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Many residents didn’t exactly know what was going on in the base headquarters—about 15 miles outside of town.
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