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As War Rages On, Kyiv Drugmaker Inks Deal for Pfizer Covid Pill

Ukraine’s Darnitsa operates around the clock to supply country with medicines 

Workers at a Darnitsa facility in Ukraine.

Source: Darnitsa Group
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As the war in Ukraine rages around them, employees at Kyiv-based Darnitsa, the country’s largest drugmaker, are working around the clock to produce antibiotics, painkillers, heart medications and other critical products their fellow citizens desperately need. Now they’re taking on an additional challenge: making their own version of Pfizer Inc.’s promising Covid-19 pill.