Kurt Volker was the U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine negotiations from 2017 to 2019 with the first Trump Administration and U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 2008-2009. He continues to be an insightful foreign affairs analyst and advisor. In this interview, Mr. Volker assesses Ukraine's current situation in the Russian invasion. He states that Uk…

Dina Smeltz is vice president and senior fellow public opinion with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. The Council was established in 1922, as a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization for the purpose of increasing knowledge and engagement in global affairs. Its mission is to promote general public interest in the foreign policy of the United State…

Orest Deychakiwsky is a well known activist in the Ukrainian American community. He worked at the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), an independent US government agency, from November 1981 to May 2017.  While at the Commission, Orest served as a member of official US delegations to numerous conferences and …

Natalia Bariatska is a doctor of geology in Ukraine and the founder and CEO of the Ukrainian company Softmine LLC. In this interview, she talks about the significance of Ukraine's key critical minerals for the global economy and the United States in particular. Ms. Bariatska also reviews the potential for their development for intenational trade. h…

Stefan Korshak is the senior defense correspondent for the Kyiv Post English-language newspaper. He offers his insights into how the Ukrainian army has been able to effectively counter the attacks of the Russian army with its substantially larger manpower and more military equipment. He says the current ceasefire proposed by the United States is un…

There are about 250,000 Ukrainian parolees who have entered the United States as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the context of U.S. immigration law, an immigration parolee is an individual granted temporary permission to enter or remain in the United States but without establishing a path to permanent residency. Iryna Mazur, a U.S.…

Bohdan Nahaylo is the Chief Editor at the Kyiv Post in Kyiv, Ukraine. He is a British-Ukrainian journalist and well-known writer whose career as a Ukraine-watcher spans more than four decades. Reflecting on the mood in Kyiv, Mr. Nahaylo does not believe Ukraine is ready for elections. He is extremely critical of the proposed U.S.-Ukraine rare earth…

Alexander Vindman, a Ukrainian American who was born in Kyiv, is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and former director for European affairs with the U.S. National Security Council (NSC). As a foreign area officer specializing in Eurasia, he served in the U.S. embassies in Kyiv and Moscow. Mr. Vindman received a Master of Arts degree in Russian…

Larisa Didkovska is the Rector of the Ukrainian Free University (UFU) located in Munich, Germany. The university was originally established in Vienna, Austria, in 1921. This private graduate academic institution offers many students from Ukraine, Europe and elsewhere programs of study in the social sciences and the humanities primarily in the Ukrai…

Christian Borys is a Ukrainian Canadian journalist who covered the Russian war against Ukraine for a while. When he returned to Canada, he decided to create a fund-raising site for the Ukrainian army. Eventually this effort evolved into a social enterprise based in Ukraine that produces various consumer products. He hopes to continue this venture e…

Kira Rudik is a member of the Ukrainian Parliament and the leader of the Golos Party. Before her first election to parliament in 2019, she was a key player in Ukraine's technology industry as the CEO of Ring Ukraine. In this interview, Ms. Rudik assesses the current social and political mood in Ukraine and emphasizes how the country continues to fi…

The third anniversary of the Russian invasion against Ukraine will occur in February 2025. Are Ukraine and Russia ready to begin peace negotiations? Will the U.S. continue to play a major role as an ally of Ukraine, or will the incoming administration of President Donald Trump change course? Taras Kuzio, professor of political science at National U…

Beginning in the 1940's, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was a key venue in the USSR for the development of cybernetics and information technology (IT). When Ukraine became independent in 1991, a new wave of creativity was unleashed in the field of technology leading to the development of innovative IT companies that sought to play a crucia…

Tony Leliw is a London-based, freelance British Ukrainian journalist, playwright and filmmaker. His writing career spans some 30 years and he currently is a freelancer for The Kyiv Post. His new short film, "Ukraine's Gold", is based on the legend of Hetman Pavlo Polubotok. It has been warmly received in the UK and abroad. https://www.youtube.com/w…

There has been significant destruction of Ukraine's national heritage sites and cultural institutions since the Russian invasion began in February 2022. Kateryna Goncharova has been involved with the preservation of architectural heritage and historical sites in Ukraine, including research, management, and scientific support of projects. She is cur…

Journalist Svitlana Oslavska and her photographer sister Anna Ilchenko started the Old Khata Project in 2020 intending to create a photobook about rural houses in Ukraine. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine slowed down the project, but the duo finally published their book in 2023. They were born in the city of Sieverodonetsk which is currently oc…

Miriam Guttman is an award-winning Dutch filmmaker and photographer. She directed the new documentary "Front Row". The American actress and television producer Sarah Jessica Parker is the executive producer. The film tells the story of the United Ukrainian Ballet Company founded in the Hague in the Netherlands with a group of 60 Ukrainian war refug…

Peter Solowka and Len Liggins founded The Ukrainians British Punk Rock band in England in 1990. Since then they have entertained audiences throughout Great Britain, Western and Eastern Europe with traditional Ukrainian folk songs, covers of classic British and American rock songs and their own compositions. The duo recently published a new book abo…

Ukrainian American Yuri Yanchyshyn has been a period furniture and wooden artifacts conservator for more than 30 years. He has worked for many important cultural institutions worldwide including The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2016 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for conservation work in Ukraine. One of Mr. Yanchyshyn's major projects has…

Ukraine faces significant electrical shortages this winter due to the constant attacks by Russia on its power grid. Oleksandr Kharchenko, an energy industry expert and managing director of the Energy Industry Research Center in Kyiv, Ukraine, discusses what has happened to Ukraine's energy infrastructure during the Russian invasion and ongoing effo…

Fedir Serdiuk is a young Ukrainian entrepreneur who is active in the field of emergency medical care in Ukraine. In 2016, he and Igor Korpusov founded a first aid training organization FAST (First Aid and SpecialTraining). FAST has more than 200 local and international companies among its clients. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2…

Andrew Wilson is a British author, Professor in Ukrainian Studies at University College London and a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. In this interview, he talks about politics in Ukraine during the period of the Russian invasion. He also explores what impact IDP's and returning war refugees might have on the count…

Andrew D'Anieri is a resident fellow and former assistant director with the Atlantic Council Eurasia Center. He discusses the recent trip to Kyiv of U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Lindsey Graham. They made a proposal for a new U.S.-Ukraine economic partnership in the development of strategic metals and rare earth elements. Senator Blumenthal'…

Andreas Umland is an analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and an Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. His focus as a political scientist has been contemporary Russian and Ukrainian history, domestic politics and …

Brian Bonner has been a prominent figure in Ukraine's media scene for almost three decades. He became chief editor of the Kyiv Post in 2008 and assumed the additional responsibilities of executive director from 2018 until 2021. Today Mr. Bonner is involved with a number of Ukraine-oriented projects including The Cipher Brief and the Hromadske Radio…

Lina Ngo was born in Kyiv to Vietnamese emigres. Once the Russian invasion began in 2022, she and her family left Ukraine and eventually settled in Seattle, Wash. where she has family. Lina is now a college student there and an activist supporting the Ukrainian army through the NGO Ukraine Defense Support. She talks about her experiences and her de…

More than 30% of Ukraine's territory has been mined during the Russia invasion. Kosta Schneider, Chief Creative Director at Publicis Groupe Ukraine and the Czech Republic, is the spokesperson for an important effort to raise global awareness of the critical need for demining in Ukraine. The Minefields Honey Project is a collaboration of the Ministr…

The Ukrainian Museum-Archives in Cleveland was first established in 1952 by displaced scholars who took on the mission of collecting and preserving items from Ukrainian history and culture. Dr. Taras Mahlay, on the Board of Directors and President of UMA, and Andriy Fedynsky, Director of UMA, discuss the museum, its valuable work and collections. A…

Myroslav Shkandrij is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is an expert on modern Ukrainian and Russian cultural history, including the avant-garde, Soviet literary politics, nationalism, imperialism and contemporary debates around decolonization. In this interview, he covers the clash between the Russian imperial and Ukrainian libe…

David Junk focused for many years on the music scene in Eastern Europe and in particular on Ukraine. He was a Vice President for PolyGram N.V., a multinational entertainment company and major music record label formerly based in the Netherlands and subsequently for the Universal Music Publishing Group which acquired PolyGram. After leaving the comp…

Marta Barandiy is a Ukrainian-born activist, lawyer and founder of the organization Promote Ukraine in Brussels, Belgium. She has spent almost 20 years advocating for Ukraine in the EU. Ms. Barandiy is now running for EU parliamentary elections with the new political movement of Belgium Voor U. https://martavooreuropa.eu/…

Larissa Babij is a Ukrainian American from Connecticut who has lived in Ukraine for almost 20 years. She is a writer, dancer and translator and now an author of the book, "A Kind of Refugee". The book tells the story of her personal experiences living in Ukraine during the Russian invasion. https://akindofrefugee2022.substack.com/…

Myroslava Gongadze is the Eastern Europe Chief for the Voice of America. She is a prominent and seasoned Ukrainian journalist currently based in Warsaw, Poland. In this interview, Ms. Gongadze discusses the critical need for U.S. aid for Ukraine, Ukraine's air defenses and its major gains in the Black Sea, the Polish blockade of Ukraine's grain exp…

Ukrainian American Tamara Syby-Holovko is the Razom project lead for the Ukraine response initiative and welcome center in the New York City area. She is also the refugee coordinator for Ukrainian Jersey City and the Vice President with Soyuz Ukrainok Branch #143. Tamara's Ukrainian family roots in Jersey City go back more than 100 years. Ms. Syby-…

Anders Aslund is a Swedish economist, former Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and a preeminent specialist on East European economies. He has been closely involved with Ukraine and its economy since the 1980's. He is a prolific author and his book, "How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy (2009)", is a comprehensive account of how Ukr…

Yuliya Ziskina is a policy and advocacy attorney specializing in information policy and public international law. She is also a Senior Legal Fellow for the Ukraine advocacy group Razom. Ms. Ziskina reviews the options for using frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine's reconstruction. https://newlinesinstitute.org/people/yuliya-m-ziskina/https://www.…

The Ukrainian American restaurant Veselka made its debut in the Lower East Side of New York City in 1954. Veselka, which means rainbow in Ukrainian, was founded by Volodymyr and Olha Darmochwal in 1954. Their son-in-law Tom Birchard later took over management and operated the restaurant for many years. Eventually he passed the torch to his son Jaso…

Peter Dickinson is the editor of the UkraineAlert blog at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center and the publisher of Business Ukraine and Lviv Today magazines. He is a well known British journalist and media manager in Kyiv and has been focused on Ukraine since the 1990's. Mr. Dickinson discusses Ukraine as it grapples with the Russian invasion now…

Ukrainian Master Chef Yevhen Klopotenko has become an innovative cultural ambassador for Ukrainian cuisine. Mr. Klopotenko applied to UNESCO to obtain international recognition for borshch. As a result of his efforts, in July 2022 UNESCO inscribed the Culture of Ukrainian borshch on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in need of urgent safegua…

Kurt Volker is an American diplomat with more than 35 years experience in government, academia and the private sector. He is a well known expert in U.S. foreign and national security policy. He was the US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations from 2017-2019 and the US Ambassador to NATO in 2008-2009. Ambassador Volker discusses the Russia…

Stefan Korshak is the senior defense correspondent for the Kyiv Post newspaper published in English in Kyiv, Ukraine. He talks about his experiences during the early days of the war, the ongoing conflict and the technology Ukraine is using to secure a strategic advantage during the war. https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/11…

Lucia Bondar is a Ukrainian publisher and author. Her coffee table books focus on architecture and design in Ukraine. Ms. Bondar's latest book, "Ukraine Rising: Contemporary Creative Culture from Ukraine" is a collaboration with the independent German book publisher Gestalten based in Berlin. This book presents the work of the Ukrainian creative co…

In 2017 Ukrainian American doctors Nelya and Serhii Melnitchouk founded a non-profit to work on improving cancer and trauma care in Ukraine. The focus of Global Medical Knowledge Alliance (GMKA) is to develop physician and patient educational content that is evidence based, written by experts, and available through an online educational platform. S…

The implementation of geothermal energy in Ukraine could bring an important new source to ensure energy security. Taras Popadynets, head of Geothermal Ukraine, and Yuliia Demchuk, board member, discuss why the NGO Geothermal Ukraine was established and what the advantages are in the implementation of geothermal energy in Ukraine.https://geothermalu…

Prof. Volodymyr Dubovyk is the Director, Center for International Studies at Mechnikov National University, Odesa, Ukraine. He is a Ukrainian expert on U.S.-Ukraine relations and security in the Black Sea region. Prof. Dubovyk is currently a visiting scholar at the Tufts University Fletcher Russia and Eurasia program in Massachusetts. He offers his…

On June 5, 2023, the Kahkovka Dam was breached in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine. The disaster has been cited as evidence of Russian ecological warfare against Ukraine. Freelance Ukrainian American journalist Mark Temnycky talks about what happened and the long term impact for Ukraine and the global economy. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/…

The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) promotes the research, study, and understanding of the Holodomor, which was the man-made Famine in Ukraine of 1932–33. HREC was established in 2013 with the generous support of the Temerty Foundation as a project of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) at the University of Alberta…

Pavlo Kovtoniuk is a cofounder of the Ukrainian Health Center (UHC). The UHC is a think tank based in Kyiv Ukraine offering consultancy, analytics, and educational services. Mr. Kovtoniuk talks about the extreme challenges faced by the health care system in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began in February 2024 and offers his views on what might…

Nataliya Gumenyuk is a Ukrainian journalist and expert on foreign affairs. She is a cofounder of the independent media Hromadske TV and the Reckoning Project, which was established to document war crimes in Ukraine. Ms. Gumenyuk is also the CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab. She gives her perspectives on how Ukrainian society has changed du…

There is an ongoing battle against Russian disinformation about Ukraine being fought today. Julia Petryk, the head of PR with the Ukrainian software firm MacPaw, is also the cofounder of the Ukrainian PR Army. The worldwide group (mostly volunteer) was formed shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine occurred in February 2022. Ms. Petryk talks …