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Nathan Rott

Sushi restaurants are thriving in Ukraine, bringing jobs and a 'slice of normal life'

Soldiers visit Om-Nom-Nom, a sushi and pizza restaurant in Sloviansk, Ukraine. Sushi restaurants are popular in Ukraine and represent a sense of normalcy during war. (Claire Harbage/NPR)

SLOVIANSK, Ukraine — Roughly a 30-minute drive from the rubble-strewn hell-scape of Russian-occupied Bakhmut, in a brightly lit restaurant on a lightless street, a pair of Ukrainian soldiers are waiting for takeout. Sushi rolls. Sixty-four assorted pieces.

"We are living human beings," says one of the soldiers, an artilleryman who goes by the call-sign Traumat. "It's very important to be able to come back [from the front lines] and have something from our normal life."

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