Next week is the two-year anniversary of Russia's war in Ukraine.

And when you think about Ukraine these days you think about the war, bombed out buildings, barren

landscape, soldiers and fatigues.

Chances are you don't think about Unit City.

And it really stands out because it's this incredibly shiny, glossy,

ultra-modern set of offices.

That's Vera Bergen-Gruin, a senior correspondent at Time.

Unit City is the hub of Ukraine's booming tax scene.

It's near Kyiv.

Vera drove by late last year.

They've got conference rooms, they've got these very futuristic kind of

neon models of what they think this is going to look like because it's a whole campus. It's got classrooms, it's got

labs, and it's actually built on the grounds of a former Soviet

motorcycle factory. So it still has this towering chimney that used to make these knockoff German motorcycles until recently and they decided to build

this tech campus on top of it. I think there was over 200 companies there, 4,000 tech workers,

and Ukrainians really believe, young Ukrainians really believe in creating that this is going to

be the future of their economies so it's incredibly, you know, just incredibly polished.

tech companies, both big global players and Ukrainian startups, have essentially turned the battlefield into a laboratory. Vera talked with dozens of

Ukrainian officials and companies eager to show off their wartime innovations.

They want to show off this very Silicon Valley kind of vibe. You know they're know, there's beam back chairs, there's

ping pong tables, and then they showed me their bomb shelter, which is

incredibly nice as well. They've been targeted a few times nearby. They've got pieces of the

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