'A country can’t fight on empty stomachs': The importance of a mobile bakery in Ukraine

London journalist Felicity Spector has helped the Bake for Ukraine movement buy cooking equipment and a mobile bakery to feed hungry locals and soldiers heading to the front line

Felicity Spector, author of Bread and War: “Ukraine has a history of bread-making and many traditions and holidays are marked by specific breads.”

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Felicity Spector, a London-based TV news journalist and food influencer, wanted to help, not least because her paternal grandparents left Dnipro for London in the early 1900s, forced into exile by the wave of pogroms sweeping the Russian Empire.

Not wanting to just be “sitting at home, thinking: ‘This is awful’,” she got practical.