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420 - Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: What Are Their Stories? - with Colin Freeman

A podcast by UkraineWorld.org, a multimedia project about Ukraine run by Internews Ukraine. Explaining Ukraine, its politics, society and its culture. Support us: patreon.com/ukraineworld

420 - Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: What Are Their Stories? - with Colin Freeman

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A podcast by UkraineWorld.org, a multimedia project about Ukraine run by Internews Ukraine. Explaining Ukraine, its politics, society and its culture. Support us: patreon.com/ukraineworld

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Explaining Ukraine

Episodes

Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: What Are Their Stories? - with Colin Freeman

Mariupol: Inside Russia’s Massive War Crime - with James Verini

How Russians Are Erasing Life in Ukraine’s South - with Zarina Zabrisky

Why Europe must fix its defence now - with Moritz Schularick

How Russia can be defeated - with Lesia Ogryzko

Odesa in love and war - with Julian Evans

Can Europe become a security union? - with Borja Lasheras

What Black Americans and Ukrainians can tell each other

Why Ukraine's resistance starts with ordinary people

Why the world needs Ukraine’s war tech - with Yulia Marushevska

Decoding Trump’s Ukraine policy - with Christopher Atwood

Russia's energy terror against Ukraine - with Oksana Ishchuk

Can Ukraine win the technological war? - with Volodymyr Havrylov

Cities without kings: humanity's prehistory on Ukrainian soil — with David Wengrow

Ukraine in 2025: can peace talks succeed?

How Ukrainians fund their own defense: the story of “Come Back Alive”

Ukrainian geopolitical thought - with Danylo Lubkivsky

Why the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church is unique - with Natalia Shlikhta

Ukrainian culture: how to reassemble a broken picture - with Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta

How Russia built its myth of Kyiv - with Kateryna Dysa

Nobel Laureate Oleksandra Matviychuk on Ukraine’s Moral Core

Being a Ukrainian soldier - what is it like? - with Vladyslav Urubkov

Why Europe’s security depends on Ukraine - with Yevhen Hlibovytskyi

How to rediscover Ukraine: the story of Ukraïner - with Julia Tymoshenko

Ukrainian children, kidnapped and reprogrammed by Russia - with Kateryna Rashevska

Where Ukrainians get their news in war - with Kostiantyn Kvurt

Timothy Snyder on why history matters — and how we get it wrong

A Brief History (and Present) of Ukrainian Theatre — with Mayhill Fowler

How Poetry Shaped the Ukrainian Nation — with Rory Finnin

Niall Ferguson on Empires, Networks, and Ukraine

How Ukraine fights Russian drones - with Taras Tymochko

How Ukraine's IT keeps surprising the world - with Taras Tymoshchuk

Why Ukrainian History Matters Globally — with Yaroslav Hrytsak

Can Security Guarantees Stop Russia’s War? — with Hanna Shelest

Сaptivity, torture, violence, and love - with Maksym Butkevych

Ukraine vs Russia: who leads the tech battle? - with Glib Voloskyi

How Russians hunt civilians in Kherson - with Zarina Zabrisky

Why Trump’s Ukraine plan won’t work - with Tetyana Ogarkova

Russian war crimes explained by Nobel-winning Ukrainian NGO - with Oleksandra Romantsova

What research tells us about the Ukrainian army - with Oleksiy Moskalenko

How Does Ukraine Talk to the Wider World? We Asked the Ukrainian Institute

Why colonialism is more complicated than you think - with Botakoz Kassymbekova

Why Russia fears Ukrainian literature - with Myroslav Shkandrij

His callsign is Caesar, he’s British, and he fights for Ukraine

Propaganda: shaping narratives in times of war. A public discussion at CEU, Vienna

Nobel-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz on the Failures of Neoliberalism and Sanctions Against Russia

How Drones Are Dramatically Changing the War – with Nataliya Gumenyuk

Look at Georgia to Better Understand Ukraine and Russia – with Tornike Gordadze

Hannah Arendt on evil: what can we learn from her today? - with Marci Shore

How to win an information war? - with Peter Pomerantsev