Illia Ponomarenko

November 4, 2022
Ukraine Has Proved Hard Choices Pay Off
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.
October 9, 2022
How Likely Is Putin to Nuke Ukraine?
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...
August 23, 2022
Stop Whining About the War
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...
March 9, 2022
Kyiv's Suburbs Look Like the Hellscape of Stalingrad
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...
February 18, 2022
Why Ukrainians Are Not Freaking Out
This is not 2014, when Russia took Ukraine by surprise. Ukraine is not easy prey anymore.