Stay ConnectedRecorded before a live audience on Twitter Spaces, #LiveFromUkraine is hosted by Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes and features a diverse array of Ukrainian voices discussing different aspects of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Svidomi Media, the tagline of which translates to “True News about Ukraine'' in English, was founded by this episode’s guest, Anasasiia Bakulina, with a mission to reach Ukrainian youth. Bakulina talks to Benjamin Wittes about her perception of generational understandings about Ukraine, Crimea, and Russia and whether or not there is such a thing as a “good Russian.”
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Stas Olenchenko and his partner didn’t mean to start Ukraine Explainers. But when the war started and they found that mainstream media sources weren’t able to cover the developments with sufficient attention to the colonial nuances, their work began. Stas sits down with Benjamin Wittes to talk about Ukraine Explainers’ contributions to understanding the Ukrainian War and dive into the complexities of Ukrainian national identity through the lenses of ethnic nationalism and civic nationalism.
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Catarina Buchatskiy, a Stanford University undergraduate from Kyiv, joins the show to talk about the manipulation of narratives from Russian actors and the role language plays in shaping—or destroying—a national identity. Buchatskiy is the co-founder of the Shadows Project—which seeks to preserve, protect, and popularize Ukrainian culture—also wrote a piece for Lawfare about this topic entitled “The War Over Ukraine—On Wikipedia.” She also cohosts a podcast entitled "Did the War End?" produced by the Kyiv Independent.
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When Melaniya Podolyak started her YouTube channel, her goal was to help provide civic education: explain governmental procedures, policy decisions coming out of Kyiv, and “internal politics of Ukraine to Ukranians.” Then the war started. Podolyak and Wittes talk about what she’s doing now: working for the Serhiy Prytula Foundation, which has supported the Ukrainian Army since 2014, and helping to combat misperceptions of Ukrainian identity through communications work.
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Walter Lekh started the Walter Report—a show on Twitter Spaces that has livestreamed, 24/7 without pause since the full-scale invasion started in February. Lekh talks with Benjamin Wittes talk about the origins of the Walter Report, about the situation on the ground since the Russian invasion on February 24, about grassroots organizing, and local efforts to elevate Ukrainian forces.
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In the inaugural episode of #LiveFromUkraine, Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes talks to Bodhana Neborak, editor-in-chief of The Ukranians, an online magazine producing long-form and visual journalism in Ukraine. Neborak and Wittes discuss media decolonization, the residual effects of Russian rule on Ukrainian culture-building, and recommendations for listeners on what to read, listen to, and watch to understand Ukraine as a country.
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