Audio / Zoya Laktionova recalls her Mariupol childhood, her relationship with Ukrainian language and culture, and her journey to become a...

Audio / Ukrainian writer and journalist Nikita Grigorov tells the story of being a university student studying Russian literature at...

Audio / Spanish journalist Argemino Barro was one of the only foreign correspondents in Donbas when Russia ramped up its destabilization...

Audio / Tanya Kotelnykova was fourteen years old when Russian-backed separatists occupied Horlivka, her hometown in Eastern Ukraine....

Audio / Christopher Atwood lived in Donetsk in the early 2010s and found himself working in Russia during its initial invasion of Ukraine...

Audio / Katia Shraga Davydenko was born in Kyiv in the 1960s. She immigrated to New York in 1992. Since 2014, she has dedicated all her...

Audio / Daniel Brennan was a Peace Corps volunteer in Hlukhiv, Ukraine when was forced to evacuate because of the pandemic. He's been...

Audio / An interview with Mark Andryczyk, the translator of displaced Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Rafeyenko.

Audio / Ivan Nebesnyy is a renowned Ukrainian composer whose music we’ve been using in Voices of Ukraine. Learn about his background and...

Audio / The Kyiv Independent’s Contributing Editor Lili Bivings discusses the state of journalism in Ukraine.

Audio / The Kyiv Independent's Deputy Chief Editor Toma Istomina talks with the site's contributing editor Lili Bivings about being...

Audio / The Kyiv Independent's editor-in-chief Olga Rudenko talks with the site's contributing editor Lili Bivings about her reaction to...

Audio / Linguist Yuri Shevchuk discusses the pronunciation of the Ukrainian capital and the political significance of speaking Ukrainian.

Audio / Olena Martynyuk was seven months pregnant and living in the U.S. when Russia invaded Ukraine. Her parents are in Ukraine and...

Audio / Peter Zalmayev evacuated his wife and two small children to Western Ukraine and traveled back toward Kyiv to report on the war.

Audio / After Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian scholar Antonina Berezovenko stayed in Kyiv in spite of the constant shelling.

Audio / Mariya Chukhnova immigrated to the U.S. and watched Ukraine’s transformation, and now the war, from afar.

Audio / On his scheduled wedding day, Serhii Tereshchenko evacuated to Lviv with his fiancée and her sister.

Audio / A new podcast about members of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University community whose lives have been upended by Russia's...