Olga Rudenko
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first heard Apr 2026
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provoked pretty loud scandals with surveillance, with things like drafting somebody for the military, if it's a male journalist, or just forcibly drafting them for the military as punishment for their reporting.
There have been cases like that where it was proved that this comes as a retribution.
I think...
You know, being named the Kyiv Independent and being based in Kyiv, and the team being a mix of Ukrainians and foreigners who care about Ukraine, it would be ridiculous if we were to claim that we are unbiased.
But at the same time, this war being, in some senses, so black and white, it having an aggressor and the side that is on the defense,
I think it is not insane for anybody to be firmly on the side of Ukraine here.
But what that means is, how I think about it, we can't and we will never become like a PR agency for Ukraine, a propaganda outlet.
You know, it can be tempting to go in that direction because that would go well short-term with the audience.
Like short-term, if we start writing just about Ukraine's wins, if we start writing only good things about Ukraine, if we drop any stories about any ineffectiveness, corruption, mismanagement, all the things we're writing about, if we drop all that and focus on the positives and focus on the resilience, the hated world,
we are going to probably see, no, most surely we will see a boost in attention.
And so it is, in a way, it can be tempting to go that path, but it's just not what we want to do.
To put it very simply, I think it is so cool that
Ukraine, the country that I love so much, that I want my future to be here.
It is so cool that during this insane war for survival, it has an independent English-language newsroom that is operating in the heart of Kyiv that only started three months before the war.
And it has grown into this thing that challenges the president.
And I just think it is so much cooler than being...
even the best propaganda outlet that we could be.
Thank you, David.
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