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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Andrea Shalal

Ukraine seeks to rebuild economy with defiant small businesses

View of a laboratory of plant-based cosmetics company Vesna, which, according to its co-founder Victoriia Maslova, was ransacked and looted during Russia's occupation of Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. Vesna/Handout via REUTERS

Victoriia Maslova abandoned her herbal cosmetics factory in the Ukrainian town of Bucha on the first day of Russia's invasion of the country, fleeing to Poland with her mother and three younger brothers when rockets began hitting a nearby airport.

A month later, they were back in Ukraine, determined to keep manufacturing Maslova's plant-based cosmetics brand, Vesna.

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