How Russia can be defeated - with Lesia Ogryzko
In recent months, Ukrainian deep strikes into Russia have outnumbered Russian strikes on Ukraine. Ukraine has managed to build its military...
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An official podcast of UkraineWorld, a multimedia project about Ukraine that focuses on explaining Ukraine and its culture, covering the most important developments in and around the country...
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Odesa in love and war - with Julian Evans
Let’s travel for a moment. Imagine you are on the shore of the Black Sea, in Odesa—one of the most beautiful cities in Eastern Europe. Odesa...
Can Europe become a security union? - with Borja Lasheras
Can Europe become a genuine security union? Is it truly aware of the 21st-century geopolitical dangers that threaten its very existence? How...
What Black Americans and Ukrainians can tell each other
What do Ukrainians and Black Americans share in their historical and cultural experiences? Can we draw comparisons between serfdom and slave...
Why Ukraine's resistance starts with ordinary people
How did two friends save hundreds of civilians? How did one restaurant feed tens of thousands in a besieged city? What does a former entrepr...
Why the world needs Ukraine’s war tech - with Yulia Marushevska
Why has Ukraine rapidly emerged as a global leader in advanced defense technology? What is the secret behind this innovation? How has warfar...
Decoding Trump’s Ukraine policy - with Christopher Atwood
Since Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency, Russia has drastically escalated its missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian cities. In J...
Russia's energy terror against Ukraine - with Oksana Ishchuk
During this record-breaking cold winter, millions of Ukrainians are regularly left without electricity, water, or heat as temperatures plumm...
Can Ukraine win the technological war? - with Volodymyr Havrylov
What are the prospects for peace talks — and why are many Ukrainians skeptical about them? Does Ukraine have technological parity with Russi...
Cities without kings: humanity's prehistory on Ukrainian soil — with David Wengrow
What can the deep past of Ukrainian lands reveal about the global story of humanity? Six thousand years ago, "mega-sites" flourished in what...
Ukraine in 2025: can peace talks succeed?
In 2025, Ukraine is facing unprecedented pressure from one of its key partners, the United States. The Trump administration has chosen not t...
How Ukrainians fund their own defense: the story of “Come Back Alive”
Imagine an NGO that has raised over one billion dollars to support the Ukrainian army. Imagine a civil society initiative that purchases arm...
Ukrainian geopolitical thought - with Danylo Lubkivsky
Ukraine has its own tradition of geopolitical thinking — a tradition that reaches deep into the past and continues to shape the country’s st...
Why the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church is unique - with Natalia Shlikhta
What makes the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church so unique? Why is it such a remarkable attempt to bridge the divide between Eastern and Weste...
Ukrainian culture: how to reassemble a broken picture - with Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta
Ukrainian cultural heritage is not something that quietly settles into national archives. In reality, it is the result of a dramatic struggl...
How Russia built its myth of Kyiv - with Kateryna Dysa
Russian propaganda claims that Ukraine is not a separate nation, but merely a “preliminary form” of Russia. Today’s Kremlin ideology seeks t...
Nobel Laureate Oleksandra Matviychuk on Ukraine’s Moral Core
She is not only a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is not only one of the most visible human-rights defenders in Europe in recent decades. Sh...
Being a Ukrainian soldier - what is it like? - with Vladyslav Urubkov
How is the life of a soldier different from that of a civilian? Which aspects of it are hardest for civilians to understand? What is happeni...
Why Europe’s security depends on Ukraine - with Yevhen Hlibovytskyi
Ukraine is not a burden for Europe — it’s a chance for Europe. Today, European security is unthinkable without Ukraine. Ukraine has the stro...
How to rediscover Ukraine: the story of Ukraïner - with Julia Tymoshenko
In this episode, we will talk about “Ukraïner”: a great initiative that has done a great deal to help rediscover Ukraine — both from within...
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