#LiveFromUkraine

Benjamin Wittes

Recorded before a live audience on Twitter Spaces, #LiveFromUkraine is hosted by Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes and features a diverse array of Ukrainian voices discussing different aspects of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best #LiveFromUkraine episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to #LiveFromUkraine for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite #LiveFromUkraine episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Catarina Buchatskiy Talks About Shadows

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05/23/22 • 51 min

Catarina Buchatskiy, a Stanford University undergraduate from Kyiv, joins the show to talk about the manipulation of narratives from Russian actors and the role language plays in shaping—or destroying—a national identity. Buchatskiy is the co-founder of the Shadows Project—which seeks to preserve, protect, and popularize Ukrainian culture—also wrote a piece for Lawfare about this topic entitled “The War Over Ukraine—On Wikipedia.” She also cohosts a podcast entitled "Did the War End?" produced by the Kyiv Independent.

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Terrell Jermaine Starr Talks Race and Ukraine

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07/25/22 • 64 min

Terrell Jermaine Starr is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and the host of the Black Diplomats podcast. He is an independent journalist based in Brooklyn and Kyiv, Ukraine covering the Russo-Ukrainian War. He previously worked at The Root and Foxtrot Alpha, a blog that focuses on the military, technology, and policy.

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Melaniya Podolyak Has a Warehouse of Supplies

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05/19/22 • 56 min

When Melaniya Podolyak started her YouTube channel, her goal was to help provide civic education: explain governmental procedures, policy decisions coming out of Kyiv, and “internal politics of Ukraine to Ukranians.” Then the war started. Podolyak and Wittes talk about what she’s doing now: working for the Serhiy Prytula Foundation, which has supported the Ukrainian Army since 2014, and helping to combat misperceptions of Ukrainian identity through communications work.

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Oleksandra Povoroznik Talks Language Politics and Wartime Culture

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08/23/22 • 58 min

Oleksandra Povoroznik (⁦@rynkrynk) is a Kyiv-based journalist, film critic and translator, who joins us to discuss the changing politics of language in Ukraine, as well as the country's defiant wartime culture and humor.

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Walter Lekh Discusses the @WalterReport

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05/17/22 • 54 min

Walter Lekh started the Walter Report—a show on Twitter Spaces that has livestreamed, 24/7 without pause since the full-scale invasion started in February. Lekh talks with Benjamin Wittes talk about the origins of the Walter Report, about the situation on the ground since the Russian invasion on February 24, about grassroots organizing, and local efforts to elevate Ukrainian forces.

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Bohdana Neborak on Decolonization of Ukrainian Culture and Journalism

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05/17/22 • 61 min

In the inaugural episode of #LiveFromUkraine, Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes talks to Bodhana Neborak, editor-in-chief of The Ukranians, an online magazine producing long-form and visual journalism in Ukraine. Neborak and Wittes discuss media decolonization, the residual effects of Russian rule on Ukrainian culture-building, and recommendations for listeners on what to read, listen to, and watch to understand Ukraine as a country.

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Alina Mykhailova: "From a Suit and Heels Back Into My Military Uniform"

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07/28/22 • 57 min

On February 22, she was a city councilwoman in Kyiv. Since February 24, she has been a combat medic in the Donesk region. Alina Mykhailova chats with us from the front about her life before and during the war and about the current situation on the front lines of the fighting in Donbas.

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Katya Savchenko Survived Bucha—and Wrote About It

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07/13/22 • 57 min

Katya Savchencko (@shanovna_s) grew up in the Donbas region of Ukraine and moved to Bucha following the Russian invasion of that region in 2014. This year, following the full-scale invasion, she survived several days of the brutal and murderous Russian occupation of Bucha before escaping by train with her sister. She kept a diary of her days in Bucha, which she recently published on Medium in English translation.

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Svitlana Khytrenko: "Russia Delenda Est"

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10/11/22 • 60 min

Svitlana Khytrenko (@s_khytrenko) is a Ukrainian student who has lived in Germany and Poland since escaping Kyiv back in March. We talked about her experiences as a refugee, her life in Poland, and her feelings about Russia and its imperial clownishness.

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Rob Lee Analyzes the Performance of the Russian Military

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07/07/22 • 61 min

Rob Lee is a former Marine Corps officer and a PhD candidate at the War Studies Department at Kings College London. He is also a collector on Twitter of a huge array of videos of Russian and Ukrainian military hardware in action, a collection he uses to analyze the performance of the Russian military in the field. Our first non-Ukrainian guest, he joined #LiveFromUkraine to discuss how the Russian military has actually performed. Did we overestimate it? Are we now underestimating? What kind of fighting capacity does it have left? And who is really prevailing as the full-scale invasion nears five months in duration?

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How many episodes does #LiveFromUkraine have?

#LiveFromUkraine currently has 16 episodes available.

What topics does #LiveFromUkraine cover?

The podcast is about News, Russia, Ukraine, Podcasts, War and Government.

What is the most popular episode on #LiveFromUkraine?

The episode title 'Svitlana Khytrenko: "Russia Delenda Est"' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on #LiveFromUkraine?

The average episode length on #LiveFromUkraine is 57 minutes.

How often are episodes of #LiveFromUkraine released?

Episodes of #LiveFromUkraine are typically released every 6 days, 3 hours.

When was the first episode of #LiveFromUkraine?

The first episode of #LiveFromUkraine was released on May 17, 2022.

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