Illia Ponomarenko

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  • Nov 4, 2022
    I've just arrived from Kyiv, and that was quite a ride lasting 30 hours, so I hope we'll have a sincere, intimate conversation about things we're all worried about.   
  • Oct 9, 2022
    When Russia’s Vladimir Putin is in trouble, he threatens to start a global nuclear holocaust. The Russian president has a long history of nuclear brinksmanship, always implicit in...
  • Aug 23, 2022
    Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine is about to cross the six-month point. It feels like we all have lived a whole life within those months, and this war keeps blowing...
  • Mar 9, 2022
    As I write these lines in Kyiv, my window panes are shaking to the booms of air defence guns intercepting Russian aircraft over the city. On Monday night, the Ukrainian military...
  • Feb 18, 2022
    This is not 2014, when Russia took Ukraine by surprise. Ukraine is not easy prey anymore.