Here's what you helped us achieve in the last week

Dear KI community members, 

We hope everyone has been having a good week – a lot has happened, including the liberation of Kherson and the U.S. midterm elections. We've been working hard to bring you the news, and we couldn't do it without your support! 

We'd also like to give a warm welcome to the 229 new members who joined us this week. Thank you for standing with us!

Here are some highlights from the Kyiv Independent over the last week:

• Today marks the one year anniversary of the Kyiv Independent! Read our editorial on the occasion: Editorial: One year of the Kyiv Independent. Also read the op-ed by our CEO Daryna Shevchenko: It’s a crucial time to stand with the Kyiv Independent. 

• Today we launched a new website design and logo. Now when you visit kyivindependent.com, you should see the updated version. 

• Audio versions of our stories are now available. Find an audio version at the top of every article.

• The main news of the week: On Wednesday, Russian troops were ordered to leave Kherson. Some of our most popular stories this week were Illia Ponomarenko's "How Russia's humiliating defeat in Kherson came to be" and Igor Kossov's "20 minutes to Kherson: What the battle for the south looks like." 

• Two more stories about the southern counteroffensive include Francis Farrell's piece about Ukrainian troops entering the town Snihurivka and Igor Kossov's piece featuring testimonies from four Ukrainian soldiers near Kherson. 

• We interviewed ex-Navy Pavlo Lakiychuk about Ukraine’s drone attack in Sevastopol. In the interview, the former Ukrainian Navy captain and Black Sea security expert said that Ukraine's drone attack "has no equivalent in the history of naval warcraft."

• Over the past month, Russia launched a series of missile and drone strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Illia Ponomarenko's article looks at Ukraine's ability to intercept these attacks and the need for long-range weapons to more effectively counter them.

• This week, Belarus Weekly includes reports of more Russian troops on Belarusian training grounds, even as Lukashenko reiterates that Belarus will not send its own forces to Ukraine.

• Before the full-scale invasion, psychologists with State Emergency Service of Ukraine typically only responded to large accidents and other rare events. Now, they're often called to respond to events like drone strikes. Daria Shulzhenko's story looks at how psychologists risk their lives to help victims of Russian attacks.

• We also reported on the U.S. midterm elections which took place on Tuesday. Still, some races are yet to be called, but Igor Kossov's story looks at the preliminary results and how aid to Ukraine is unlikely to be jeopardized. 

Thank you for standing by our side as we bring independent, locally-sourced news about Ukraine to the world.