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#LiveFromUkraine
by Benjamin Wittes
Recorded before a live audience on Twitter Spaces, #LiveFromUkraine is hosted by Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes and features a diverse array of Ukrainian voices discussing different aspects of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Svitlana Khytrenko: "Russia Delenda Est"
Svitlana Khytrenko (@s_khytrenko) is a Ukrainian student who has lived in Germany and Poland since escaping Kyiv back in March. We talked about her experiences as a refugee, her life in Poland, and her feelings about Russia and its imperial clownishness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
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Oleksandra Povoroznik Talks Language Politics and Wartime Culture
Oleksandra Povoroznik (@rynkrynk) is a Kyiv-based journalist, film critic and translator, who joins us to discuss the changing politics of language in Ukraine, as well as the country's defiant wartime culture and humor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Vitalii Ovcharenko Talks About Fighting for Ukraine in the Field
Vitalii Ovarchenko is a Ukrainian army soldier who participated in the defense of Kyiv and is now stationed in the Donbas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Alina Mykhailova: "From a Suit and Heels Back Into My Military Uniform"
On February 22, she was a city councilwoman in Kyiv. Since February 24, she has been a combat medic in the Donesk region. Alina Mykhailova chats with us from the front about her life before and during the war and about the current situation on the front lines of the fighting in Donbas. Hosted on...
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Terrell Jermaine Starr Talks Race and Ukraine
Terrell Jermaine Starr is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and the host of the Black Diplomats podcast. He is an independent journalist based in Brooklyn and Kyiv, Ukraine covering the Russo-Ukrainian War. He previously worked at The Root and Foxtrot Alpha, a...
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Katya Savchenko Survived Bucha—and Wrote About It
Katya Savchencko (@shanovna_s) grew up in the Donbas region of Ukraine and moved to Bucha following the Russian invasion of that region in 2014. This year, following the full-scale invasion, she survived several days of the brutal and murderous Russian occupation of Bucha before escaping by train...
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Rob Lee Analyzes the Performance of the Russian Military
Rob Lee is a former Marine Corps officer and a PhD candidate at the War Studies Department at Kings College London. He is also a collector on Twitter of a huge array of videos of Russian and Ukrainian military hardware in action, a collection he uses to analyze the performance of the Russian...
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Maria Avdeeva on Kharkiv and Donbas
Maria Avdeeva is research director of the European Experts Association in Ukraine Maria Avdeeva. Based in Kharkiv, she has not left the city during the full-scale invasion and joins to zoom in on the fighting in Donbas, where she just visited. Donbas is a hotspot in southeastern Ukraine that has...
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Olexander Scherba on the Diplomacy of the Full-Scale Invasion
Olexander Scherba was a career Ukrainian diplomat whose most recent post as Ukrainian ambassador to Austria ended in 2021. He has spent a total of 28 years in service to Ukraine. He and Benjamin Wittes discuss the misalignment of different global actors in the anticipation of the war in Ukraine,...
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Anastasiia Lapatina on Reporting Independently from Kyiv
Anastasiia Lapatina is a college student in Canada. In Ukraine, she is a reporter for the Kyiv Independent—where she cohosts the podcast, "Did the War End?" She talks about the rise of the Kyiv Independent as a trusted Ukrainian news source in the West, her work on the ground in the days after…
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Anastasiia Bakulina Talks Ukrainian Youth Media
Svidomi Media, the tagline of which translates to “True News about Ukraine'' in English, was founded by this episode’s guest, Anasasiia Bakulina, with a mission to reach Ukrainian youth. Bakulina talks to Benjamin Wittes about her perception of generational understandings about Ukraine, Crimea…
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Stas Olenchenko Explains Ukraine
Stas Olenchenko and his partner didn’t mean to start Ukraine Explainers. But when the war started and they found that mainstream media sources weren’t able to cover the developments with sufficient attention to the colonial nuances, their work began. Stas sits down with Benjamin Wittes to talk...
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Catarina Buchatskiy Talks About Shadows
Catarina Buchatskiy, a Stanford University undergraduate from Kyiv, joins the show to talk about the manipulation of narratives from Russian actors and the role language plays in shaping—or destroying—a national identity. Buchatskiy is the co-founder of the Shadows Project—which seeks to…
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Melaniya Podolyak Has a Warehouse of Supplies
When Melaniya Podolyak started her YouTube channel, her goal was to help provide civic education: explain governmental procedures, policy decisions coming out of Kyiv, and “internal politics of Ukraine to Ukranians.” Then the war started. Podolyak and Wittes talk about what she’s doing now…
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Walter Lekh Discusses the @WalterReport
Walter Lekh started the Walter Report—a show on Twitter Spaces that has livestreamed, 24/7 without pause since the full-scale invasion started in February. Lekh talks with Benjamin Wittes talk about the origins of the Walter Report, about the situation on the ground since the Russian invasion on...
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Bohdana Neborak on Decolonization of Ukrainian Culture and Journalism
In the inaugural episode of #LiveFromUkraine, Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes talks to Bodhana Neborak, editor-in-chief of The Ukranians, an online magazine producing long-form and visual journalism in Ukraine. Neborak and Wittes discuss media decolonization, the residual effects of…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Recorded before a live audience on Twitter Spaces, #LiveFromUkraine is hosted by Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes and features a diverse array of Ukrainian voices discussing different aspects of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Recorded before a live audience on Twitter Spaces, #LiveFromUkraine is hosted by Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes and features a diverse array of Ukrainian voices discussing different aspects of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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