Covering Ukraine

This last episode takes you to Kyiv in February 2025, during a third study visit organised by n-ost for the journalists from the EU. The participating media professionals reflect on how they see and experience Ukraine today, and how they witness the formation of a contemporary Ukrainian identity. Through site visits and conversations, we explore different facets of Ukrainian society. One recurring...

Similar to the perspectives on Ukraine in Germany discussed in the previous episode, French society largely discovered Ukraine only after February 24, 2022. At first, French media showed immense interest, frequently requesting commentary from French-speaking Ukrainian journalists and experts. Ukraine was at the center of attention, but as the war became a prolonged reality, pitching stories about...

Over the past decade, Ukraine has gone from being largely unknown to most Germans to becoming a regular topic on TV, radio, and in print media. How did this transformation take place, and is it still ongoing? What factors have shaped the German media landscape and influenced newsrooms' approach to covering Ukraine? This episode presents a conversation with two media professionals – Anastasia Rodi,...

Right now, thousands of Ukrainians are missing or detained. Since 2014, Russia has been kidnapping and persecuting civilians in occupied Ukrainian territories. These abductions are part of a broader pattern of human rights violations, well-documented by international organisations, human rights groups, and Ukrainian authorities. In summer 2024, two journalists, Alona Savchuk from Ukraine and Rober...

This episode presents a discussion from the Kyiv Media Hub on the 16th of February, 2024. Alim Aliev , Deputy Director of the Ukrainian Institute, Kateryna Zarembo , a researcher and author on eastern Ukraine, and Anton Skyba , a journalist and photographer for foreign media, examined the challenges of reporting on Ukraine's occupied territories. They addressed issues such as dominant narratives,...

This episode revisits a Kyiv Media Hub event held on the 14th of December 2023, where Ukrainian and EU journalists discussed the changing dynamics of their work. As the war continues, media coverage remains essential, yet public interest has been inconsistent. We explore how editorial priorities are shifting and what journalists can do to maintain the public’s focus on Ukraine. In this episode, yo...

A few months after our study visit to Kyiv, we reached out to the participants now back in safe EU capitals to find out how they have been processing their experiences. From Sofia to Madrid, each person felt a strong contrast between their time in Ukraine and everyday life at home. Feeling the urge to stay connected with Ukraine, some have started listening to Ukrainian music on Spotify, some read...

A conversation, recorded in a shelter in Kyiv, about the experiences our fellows will take away from the study visit they participated in with the Europe-Ukraine Desk. Two of them share the emotional highs, lows and resilience they've witnessed, but also revisit discussions from the panels they attended with Ukrainian journalists, who shared their criticisms of the role of foreign media in coverin...

Join our 18 fellows from Bulgaria, France, Italy, Germany, Hungary and Spain who discover Kyiv and Chernihiv with a study trip organised within the Europe-Ukraine Desk. They travelled to Ukraine in February 2024, two years into the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia. For most of them it was their first time in Ukraine, and their first time in a country at war. In this episode, we keep explor...

Listen to the story of one of our Italian fellows, Davide Maria de Luca, who’s life and career took an impressive turn, thanks to our program. The Europe-Ukraine Desk study visit in Kiyv, which he joined in 2023, led him to quit his permanent job at a prominent Italian media outlet, and to relocate as a foreign freelance correspondent in Ukraine. You can subscribe to his newsletter DMD .  Thi...

This episode features a discussion about the challenges of field reporting in Ukraine, and how the Russian full-scale invasion in 2022 and the war since 2014 have affected journalism and journalists in the country. A discussion between two of our Ukrainian fellows, Alona Savchuk, who is a journalist and reporter, and Oksana Rasulova, a freelance journalist editor who works for the Ukrainian NGO Me...

This episode features a discussion about decolonisation of culture and journalism between two Ukrainian journalists, Darka Hirna and Bohdana Neborak, both fellows of the Europe-Ukraine Desk. This is a major topic in Ukraine, as a decolonization process is happening at the moment, which very few in western Europe know about. They answer the questions of our Editorial coordinator while in Budapest,...

This episode features a discussion between two Ukrainian journalists who both work for Suspilne, the Ukrainian public broadcaster, and happen to be fellows of the Europe-Ukraine Desk. Olena Removska is a presenter for Ukrainian National TV and Serhii Stukanov is a radio presenter for Ukrainian National Radio. They answered questions from our Editorial Coordinator in September 2023, while in Madrid...

This episode invites you on a trip with a dozen of Ukrainian journalists who toured the biggest newsrooms of Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria, France, Germany and Spain. Ukrainian fellows met with international colleagues in key cities. For this episode we will concentrate on the three capitals we visited: Budapest, Rome, and Madrid. This episode is the first in a series of four, where we invite you to li...

This episode is a digest of the Kyiv Mediahub our programme organised in September 2023. A panel discussion inviting journalists to share their experiences when covering the Russia war against Ukraine in the frontline.  In this episode you will hear: Stas Kozliuk , freelance journalist, photographer, fixer Oksana Leuta , fixer for western newsrooms Stephane Siohan , correspondent in Ukraine a...

This episode is a digest of the Kyiv Mediahub organised by our programme in August 2023. A panel discussion inviting journalists to share their practices and challenges in covering Russia's war against Ukraine.  Speakers: Andriy Dubchak , founder and head of the independent reporting media "Donbas Frontliner", correspondent and photojournalist, Gongadze Prize finalist (2023) Oksana Romaniuk ,...

This episode opens a series of three broadcasts of our Kyiv Media Hubs, panel discussions about journalism in Ukraine organised by the Europe-Ukraine Desk in 2023. In this episode you will hear the testimonies of Vlad Golovin (journalist, fixer), Anastasia Vlasova (photographer), Isobel Koshiw (journalist for FT, Washington Post, The Economist ), Olivia Kortas (journalist for Die Zeit ). Moderated...

Not only have the 18 EU journalists from the Europe-Ukraine desk learned a lot about Ukraine, but also about themselves. In this episode, you hear them share their thoughts while packing for their long journey back to Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Spain. They have plans for new reports, investigations and collaborative journalism with the Ukrainian journalists they met in Kyiv. Cre...

This episode allows you to witness the questions and doubts that arose among our fellows about how to do journalism in a country at war, especially when it’s your country. They also visit Bucha and share their emotions and feelings. Some of them have a feeling of Deja Vu, because they have written about it from their home country dozens of times, without having set foot there.  Credits: Recor...

This episode invites you to dive into a train ride from Poland to Ukraine, with a dozen journalists from the EU who come to Ukraine for the first time since Russian full-scale invasion started. It is the first episode of a mini-series of 3, about a one-week study trip to Ukraine by journalists from Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Spain. They travelled to start or strengthen their exp...