Episode 1 of “This Week in Ukraine” published, your questions needed for episode 2
Dear Kyiv Independent community members,
Last week we launched our new video podcast, “This Week in Ukraine,” which looks at the most important news happening in Ukraine each week.
Here is the video for last week’s episode: “Why does Ukraine keep up costly defense of Bakhmut?” with your questions answered starting at 25:00.
Next week’s episode will be about the recent scandals involving the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. If you have any questions about this topic, you can leave them in the comments below, message us on Patreon, or email community manager Brooke at brooke@kyivindependent.com.
Every week, we will be putting out a call for your questions – we look forward to hearing from you!
Finally, we received a number of messages from our community, letting us know that the podcast was not available on Google Podcasts and that the link appeared to be broken. This has now been fixed – and thank you to those who pointed it out!
Why does Ukraine keep up costly defense of Bakhmut? | This Week in Ukraine Ep. 1 (YouTube)
Comments (5)
This was an absolutely excellent episode. I will be continuously listening to the upcoming episodes (I am already a Power Lines+ listener). Nastia you are a terrific interviewer, asking detailed questions that give an opportunity for unique responses. Francis I love your 'clarifying' approach, it provides a broader picture and room for analysis.
I really appreciate your work and the new podcast is excellent. I'm looking forward to the next episode. Since it's about the church it would be good to have a bit of a primer on the religious groups and how they relate to each other. Orthodoxy is a bit of a general mystery to me (and many Brits, I imagine, since even Roman Catholicism still seems fairly exotic here) so a bit of an explainer would help orientation!
Oh gosh, so much more than an audio Podcast 😳😃👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 You all just keep setting the bar higher and higher for anyone who believes they might compete, and for all media outlets who now seem rather lazy in comparison! I continue to be amazed at the creativity Coupled With the ability to organize and implement. Under dire conditions. 😳🤦🏽♀️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Slava Ukraïni
I really appreciate your work...thank you!
My name is GENE FITZGERALD and I am a retired professor of Russian language, literature, and culture at the U org Utah in Salt Lake City. I just taught a course (being retired means you get to teach for nothing) on Russia and Ukraine, a study of their history and then moving to Putin's comments on his version of the history of the two countries--which is far different from the actuality. I have read Plokhii book on Ukraine "The Gates of History: and found it interesting but a very confusing time line, which I straightened out for myself and my students. At present I much worry about battle fatigue of the Ukrainian forces, and hope that Western increase in armaments and equipment will help. have a small flag of Ukraine that we fly in front of our home in Salt Lake City, but we are now under many feet of snow. So all our hopes and wishes are for a speedy outcome and a Ukrainian victory (BTW I first started going to Russia in 1971, lived in Leningrad for year with my family 1974-75, studied at MGU 1971, and 1981, and went to the Soviet Union/Russia every year from 1984-2005, then again in 2014 and 2017--needless to say my trips to friends in Russia are now over)./