In Ukraine, specialized tour guides are ready for a small but unstoppable flow of visitors who ignore blunt travel advisories.
May 10, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. EDT48 minutes ago
Members of a Ukrainian youth organization tour Kyiv on Tuesday. (Brendan Hoffman/Brendan Hoffman/For The Washington Post)
KYIV — Jan Medved didn’t come clean about his holiday plans until his father was about to drop him off at the bus station. Yes, he was really heading to Budapest from their home in Slovenia — but he wasn’t stopping there.