Here's what you helped us achieve in the last week
Dear Kyiv Independent community members,
We hope you've all been safe and well this holiday season, with lots to look forward to in 2023. If you have any plans for the new year or any ways you've been celebrating that you'd like to share, we'd love to read about it in the comments below! Pictured above is a group photo of the Kyiv Independent team, hanging from a tree as one of our decorations during our Christmas party on Dec. 23.
We'd also like to welcome our 191 new members this week and say thank you to everyone for your continued support. Thank you for standing with us!
Here are some highlights from the Kyiv Independent over the last week:
We reported on Russia's eighth massive missile strike on Ukraine's energy infrastructure yesterday. Ukraine was able to down 54 out of 69 missiles, with reports that some debris fell into Belarus.
On Wednesday, Zelensky deliveredhis annual speech to the Ukrainian parliament, saying that "Ukraine is on track to victory that all generations have dreamed of."
Our most popular story this week was a glance into Kherson's underground resistance during Russian occupation. Igor Kossov's story focuses on a few people who worked against Russian occupiers from providing coordinates to Ukraine for air strikes to killing the invaders.
We reported from liberated Chornobaivka in Kherson Oblast. Asami Terajima's piece tells the story of how a driver had to become an emergency service worker under Russian occupation due to the shortage of doctors in the town. Our video report looks at the war crimes being uncovered after Chornobaivka's liberation, including two young men who were shot dead in early March.
We also wrote about the volunteers rescuing animals abandoned during the war. Daria Shulzhenko's piece looks at the volunteers efforts, which include everything from bringing dogs missing owners to shelters to helping a bear, who survived shelling, after being trapped in a zoo.
We interviewed former French President François Hollande, who said that there will only be a way out of the war "when Russia fails on the ground."
Episode eight of our podcast Power Lines was released. In "The Fight for Cyberspace" co-hosts Anastasiia Lapatina and Jakub Parusinski speak to technology journalist and author Andy Greenberg about the new, digital theater of war, and Pavel Liber, a Belarusian who is creating a digital platform to connect Belarusians virtually, while in exile.
This week in Investigative Stories from Ukraine, our new newsletter, we include the New York Times investigation that identifies Russian soldiers involved in the Bucha massacre. Subscribe here and get the Investigative Stories newsletter sent directly to your inbox.
Thank you for standing by our side as we bring independent, locally-sourced news about Ukraine to the world.
See you in 2023!
Comments (15)
Happy New Year. Thank Illia for this subscription. I have been following him on Twitter. Moving to Post. news and want to keep up with him and all of you! You are doing a great job!!
Thank you. Peace, safety, happiness and everything good. Ukraine's and all normal peace-loving people's victory over the orcs
A happy and peacefull 2023!
When I became a supporter earlier in the year, I promised myself that I would upgrade my tier before New Year's. Done. Greetings from Lithuania. We know how necessary non-corporate media is. You do essential work. Keep it up. Ukraine's voice needs to be heard, and you are needed.
Thank you for all your reporting. I am an American with friends from Ukraine who are now U.S. Citizens. I appreciate the reporting so I can help keep informed from news on the ground. US news media has the attention span of a gnat's @ss, so having you folks keeping me informed on Twitter is really helpful. I have started learning Ukrainian and have been practicing with my friends, so hopefully by end of 2023 I can follow the news in Ukrainian. I wish you folks the best in 2023 and keeping you all in my thoughts. Slava Ukraini! Michael
Wishing you all the peace that you deserve for 2023. Wearing my fab new long sleeved shirt from Saint Javelin with pride and admiration for you all. Personally think a Zelensky shirt would be one I would buy - with the Ukraine national symbol on it.
Incredible journalism great job folks
Thank you KI team, for sharing Ukrainian’s key lesson on resistance: even short of a foreign invasion, we often have to resist challenging days in education, work, family or social life, weather conditions and more. Times to resist like an Ukrainian.
Oh - and I am now wearing, today, my new KI T-shirt, which arrived this week!
To the entire KI team - I pray for your safety, the safety of your friends and loved ones this New Years. As for my celebration? I have been stepping up my donations to my friends in Ukraine at the front, because it is time to celebrate the push toward victory. And as a precious thank you, just this week, I was informed by a friend that a package is being shipped to me, with a patch from the newly renamed "Seneca" Battalion of the 93rd OMBr Kolodnyy Yar. This name, "Seneca", is in memory of Roman Ratushnyi, hero of Ukraine, and member of the battalion, who was killed in battle in July. I cried when I saw the photo of the patch. This honor is beyond. And so, I "celebrate", by celebrating Roman Ratushnyi's life, his selfless service since 2014, his dedication to preserving Protasiv Yar, and his ultimate sacrifice for Ukraine, and for humanity.
One more thing -- the St. Javelin/KI clothes are great. Maybe add more sweat pants and tank tops? And maybe some of the tank tops can have tanks all over them?:))
One specific question, with the Patriots, improved range himars missiles, and drones, can the Russian Black Sea fleet be taken out? It should be really. Now's a good time to do it. The less Russia is left with after the war, the more it will be forced to behave.
Hi Fran – I'm passing these ideas along to the editorial team!
President Zelensky's speech was excellent, and the coming victory will mean improvements for the world situation that yes, generations all over have only dreamed of. I'm glad also he spoke of environmental issues, joining the EU, the return of all those kidnapped, and a tribunal. All toward a more peaceful, lawful, healthy world.
I wish that you’ll be able to keep reporting all the next year through and I will stay with the Ukrainians as long as it is necessary. Peace should come on the end. 🌻🌻🌻