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Partner on this video: KYIV OF MINE Watch the trailer now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arJUcE1rxY0'Kyiv of Mine' is a documentary series about Ukraine’s beautiful capital, Kyiv. The film production began in 2018, and much has changed since then. It is now 2025, and this story is far from over.https://www.youtube.com/@UCz6UbVKfqutH-N7WXnC5Ykg https://www.kyivofmine.com/#theprojectKyiv o...

Livestream with Jonathan MS Pearce - The shocking slaying of Charlie Kirk has huge implications. Politicization and attempts to weaponize of this tragic event are inevitable. ----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buy...

Alice Zhuravel is a social entrepreneur hailing from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She has a passion for learning and exploring different fields, particularly at the intersection of science and art. Her academic journey began at the historical faculty of the Pedagogical University named after H.S. Skovoroda in Kharkiv, where she studied media art and 3D. However, the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine...

Live stream with Yuri Rashkin. ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back A...

This conversation was recorded before Russia's drone strike on Poland. But in the conversation we speculate that just such an incident is becoming an inevitable part of the Kremlin's escalating aggression and probing of Western defenses and resolve. ----------Today I’m speaking with Operator Starsky, a former Ukrainian National Guardian, blogger, and inspiration for everyone who is followi...

Keir Giles has spent his career watching, studying, and explaining Russia. Keir’s work has appeared in a wide range of academic and military publications across Europe and in North America, and he is a regular contributor and commentator on Russian affairs for international print and broadcast media. He works with the Conflict Studies Research Centre (CSRC), a group of deep subject matter experts...

Edition No245 | 10-09-2025 - Poland has triggered NATO Article 4, in what is being interpreted by informed commentators as a significant sub-threshold escalation by Russia’s, and explicit threat Europe and the NATO alliance, as well as marking the war’s widening arc. Poland says a mass of Russian “drone-type objects” broke into its airspace as Moscow hammered Ukraine. Polish and allied jets — incl...

James Nixey was lead at the Russia-Eurasia programme at Chatham House, and his principal expertise concerns the relationships between Russia and the other post-Soviet states. He has published papers and articles in books and journals and commented extensively in the national and global media. He has also organised hundreds of private expert round tables on Russian and Eurasian affairs while at Cha...

Edition No244 | 09-09-2025 - America steps back from resisting information warfare and foreign interference, just as the barrage from unfriendly actors intensifies. Nothing screams sovereignty like allowing disingenuous foreign influence to pollute your information sphere. Today, the United States just unplugged part of its information defense grid — ending joint anti-disinformation pacts with 22...

Today I’m speaking with Operator Starsky, a former Ukrainian National Guardian, blogger, and inspiration for everyone who is following the war, and supporting a Ukrainian victory. He has created one of the most popular and original YouTube channels dedicated to the international community. I’m not sure you need an introduction – I’m sure most people watching this channel will have seen your videos...

Edition No243 | 07-09-2025 - Is the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ Already Unravelling? Europe promises a “reassurance force” for Ukraine — someday — while Moscow says any such troops would be “legitimate targets for targeting and destruction.” Meanwhile, trial-balloons about Chinese or even UN peacekeepers drift across the news cycle like other-worldly experimental weather balloons cut adrift. Global...

I join Jonathan MS Pearce around minute 34. Livestream with Jonathan MS Pearce - China's role in supporting the war, the weakness of the US in putting pressure on Putin, Flamingo missile system, and issues in the Russian economy. ----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid co...

Edition No242 | 06-09-2025 - Europe gears up—again—for tougher sanctions on Russia but always seems to keep one foot on the brake at the same time as the accelerator. In Paris, the U.S. envoy, Witless Witkoff stormed in, then stormed out again, of a high stakes meeting with Zelenskyy and European leaders. And in Washington, the Trump White House talks tough, yet holds back on hitting Putin directl...

Live stream with Yuri Rashkin and Yuri Felshtinsky. ----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN Events in 2025 - Advocacy fo...

Partner on this video: KYIV OF MINE Watch the trailer now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arJUcE1rxY0'Kyiv of Mine' is a documentary series about Ukraine’s beautiful capital, Kyiv. The film production began in 2018, and much has changed since then. It is now 2025, and this story is far from over.https://www.youtube.com/@UCz6UbVKfqutH-N7WXnC5Ykg https://www.kyivofmine.com/#theprojectKyiv o...

Edition No241 | 04-09-2025 - This summer Putin expected thunder and damnation, the smiting of Ukrainian forces and major advances on the frontlines in all directions. What he got and mud and blood, twisted armour and incremental gains in some places, and humiliating retreats in others. Ukraine of course has eyes on a maximalist prize, the recovery of all its sovereign land and people, but at a min...

Kevin Leach is the main director for Sabre Training Advisory Group, a professional military training non-profit. Their aim is to give Ukrainian defenders the skills to come home alive. Kevin is a Canadian Armed Forces veteran, with a long history of working in Ukraine and in military affairs. He served as a sergeant from 2008-2018, specializing in armored reconnaissance. ----------LINKS:https://x....

Edition No240 | 03-09-2025 - Flames, Palaces & Flamingos: Ukraine Challenges Putin’s Aura of Invincibility. A future film of the war, depicting Ukraine’s victory over its imperial neighbour, will savour this moment, as it builds the tension and rolls out in glorious orange flame ripping through forests near Putin’s secret palace complex, his minions panicking as the flames encroach on the $1.5...

Andrei Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist and security services expert. Together with fellow journalist Irina Borogan he is co-founder of Agentura. Ru – a watchdog of the Russian secret services’ activities. He’s been covering security services and terrorism issues since 1999. Together with Irina Borogan Andrei has co-authored three books: The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s...

Edition No239 | 02-09-2025 - Autocrats assemble. These are not nice people. Not kind people, nor generous or moral. They have reached the top of the pile in their respective countries, many of which are authoritarian or quasi authoritarian regimes. What does it take to achieve that, an to stay top of the pile for years, sometimes decades. For a start you must be the biggest bully in the playground...

Dr Robert Seely MBE was a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Isle of Wight from 2017 until the constituency was split in two in 2024. Seely is a former journalist and soldier. From 1990 to 1995, he worked as a foreign correspondent in the last year of the USSR and in post-Soviet states. From 2008 to 2017, he served in the British Armed Forces...

Edition No238 | 01-09-2025 - Ukraine is hitting Russia where it hurts. Russian pipelines are going boom, queues for petrol are lengthening in Russia’a far east, and as time goes on, extending far further afield across the country. The Kremlin Tsar for life finds that Russia’s size, thought to be an advantage that made it invulnerable to defeat, have now turned it into a brittle and vulnerable empi...

Georgijs Ivanovs started the Ukraine Matters channel in 2007, and it has garners 11.5 m views. He started the channel to explain the situation surrounding the war in Ukraine in simple terms. Like myself, he is not Ukrainian, nor is he a military expert. But he has been to Ukraine many times and seen it almost fully (except for Odesa region). He has a lot of good friends in Ukraine, and in fact his...

Edition No237 | 31-08-2025 - Russia’s Gerasimov confirms what was already obvious to many of us. It’s addiction to war, refusal to relent, relentless attacks, hollow declarations and mocking strikes on Western assets in Ukraine. Even amid diplomatic overtures, Russia vows to continue the war and embrace the imperial genocide it started almost four years ago. Unfortunately, also on full display are...

Partner on this video: KYIV OF MINE 'Kyiv of Mine' is a documentary series about Ukraine’s beautiful capital, Kyiv. The film production began in 2018, and much has changed since then. It is now 2025, and this story is far from over.https://www.youtube.com/@UCz6UbVKfqutH-N7WXnC5Ykg https://www.kyivofmine.com/#theprojectKyiv of Mine is fast paced, beautifully filmed, humorous, fun, insightfu...