Covering Ukraine

Keep returning

Tue, 06 May 2025 16:14:49 GMT

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 theme is trauma – both from the legacy of authoritarian rule and from the ongoing wounds of war. In the end, a clear insight emerges: the only way to begin to understand this country is to keep returning.

Credits:

Recorded by Yevheniia Sobolieva, a freelance producer for foreign media in Ukraine.

Written by Daniel Bilyk and Yevheniia Sobolieva.

Edited, Sound-designed and mixed by Daniel Bilyk.

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share.

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French Perspective

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:24:04 GMT

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 Ukraine grew more challenging. What angles do journalists now explore to keep French audiences engaged with Ukraine? And how is Ukraine perceived today?

This episode features a discussion between literary scholar and journalist Tetyana Ogarkova and Ukraine correspondent for Le Figaro, Mediapart, and L'Express, Clara Marchaud. The conversation took place at a Kyiv Media Hub event on November 1, 2024.

Hosted and organised by Oksana Mamchenkova.

Edited, sound-designed and mixed by Lyuba Gook.

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project of n-ost, funded by the European Commission.

For questions or feedback, please write to eud@n-ost.org.

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German Perspective

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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, a reporter for taz, and Vassili Golod, head of the ARD Studio in Kyiv – which took place on October 16, 2024, as part of the Kyiv Media Hub events.

Hosted and organised by Oksana Mamchenkova.

Edited, sound-designed and mixed by Lyuba Gook.

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project of n-ost, funded by the European Commission.

For questions or feedback, please write to eud@n-ost.org.

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Russia’s War Crimes: Abducted Civilians

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:07:26 GMT

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 Robert Putzbach from Germany, collaborated to publish materials on this topic in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Hungarian journalist and EUD media network manager Kornelia Kiss speaks with Alona Savchuk and Robert Putzbach about their investigation and findings. The interview was recorded in October 2024.

Credits:

Hosted by Antonina Rybka. Written and recorded by Kornelia Kiss.

Edited, sound-designed, and mixed by Lyuba Gook.

Link to the article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project of n-ost, funded by the European Commission.

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10 Years of War: How to Discuss the Occupied Territories

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:00:22 GMT

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, sustaining public interest, reporting beyond the war, limitations on journalists’ access, the protection of sources, illegal border crossings, and the informational value of these stories. The discussion was moderated by Angelina Kariakina, journalist, editor, and co-founder of the Public Interest Journalism Lab.

Credits:

Hosted and organised by Oksana Mamchenkova.

Edited, sound-designed and mixed by Lyuba Gook.

Proofread by Michael Bird.

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback.

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Overcoming Obstacles in Reporting

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:48:24 GMT

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, you will hear:

Davide Maria De Luca, an Italian journalist covering Ukraine for Domani, Il Post, and other media.

Azad Safarov, a producer for the British TV channel Sky News.

Rebecca Barth, a journalist from the German public broadcaster ARD.

Moderation by Serhiy Stukanov, editor at Ukrainian Radio (Ukrainian Public Broadcaster).

Credits:

Hosted and organised by Oksana Mamchenkova.

Edited, sound-designed and mixed by Lyuba Gook.

Proofread by Michael Bird.

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback.

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“A Lump in My Throat”: Back to Everyday Life After a Visit to Kyiv

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:28:21 GMT

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 the online newspaper the Kyiv Independent in the morning, and others plan to return to work in Ukraine.

This episode features insights in short WhatsApp messages from the 2024 cohort of Europe-Ukraine Desk fellows: Yavor Siderov (Bulgaria), Juan López Córcoles (Spain), Vincenzo Leone (Italy), Anna Banati (Hungary), Flora-Dora Csatari (Hungary), Alienor Carriere (France), and Elena Gorgis (Germany).

Credits:

Conceptualised and recorded by Sarah-Lou Lepers.

Written, edited, sound-designed and mixed by Daniel Bilyk.

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback.

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Debrief in the shelter 2/2

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 02:28:40 GMT

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 covering the war in Ukraine.

Flora-Dora Czatari is a Hungarian journalist, she worked for the weekly newspaper HvG when we recorded this interview in Kyiv, in February 2024, but since then she has moved to another role for the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union. She is joined by Elena Gorgis, a freelancer for German public radio.

These journalists are both fellows of the Europe-Ukraine Desk.

This episode is the last of a two-part mini-series.

Credits:

Recorded by Sarah-Lou Lepers

Written by Daniel Bilyk and Sarah-Lou Lepers

Edited, Sound-designed and mixed by Daniel Bilyk

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share.

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Discover Ukraine, two years into full-scale war 1/2

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 02:26:25 GMT

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 exploring the role of journalism in times of conflict.

This episode is the first of a two-part mini series.

Credits:

Recorded by Sarah-Lou Lepers

Written by Daniel Bilyk and Sarah-Lou Lepers

Edited, Sound-designed and mixed by Daniel Bilyk

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share.

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From Rome to Kyiv, Change Point of View

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 02:36:25 GMT

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.

This episode is the eleventh and final episode of the season 1 of Covering Ukrain, in which we invite you to listen to journalists talk about their work and the coverage of Ukraine in foreign media.

Credits:

Recorded by Sarah-Lou Lepers

Co-written , edited, sound-designed and mixed by Lyuba Gook

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share.

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Field Reporting in Ukraine

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:47:03 GMT

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 Media Initiative for Human Rights. They answered the questions from our Editorial Coordinator, while in Madrid, after a series of meetings with the most prominent EU newsrooms that our project has invited them to experience.

This is the fourth and final episode of our series in which we invite you to listen to Ukrainian journalists talk about their work and the coverage of Ukraine in foreign media.

Credits:

Recorded by Sarah-Lou Lepers

Written , edited, sound-designed and mixed by Lyuba Gook

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share.

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Decolonising Culture and Journalism

Wed, 29 May 2024 13:59:55 GMT

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, pausing during a series of meetings with the most prominent EU newsrooms that our project has invited them to experience.

This episode marks the third in a series of four, in which we invite you to listen to Ukrainian journalists talk about their work and the coverage of Ukraine in foreign media.

Credits:

Recorded by Sarah-Lou Lepers

Written , edited, sound-designed and mixed by Lyuba Gook

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share.

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Being a Journalist at Suspilne

Tue, 14 May 2024 16:33:44 GMT

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, pausing during a series of meetings with the most prominent EU newsrooms that our project has invited them to experience.

This episode is the second in a series of four in which we invite you to listen to Ukrainian journalists talk about their work and the coverage of Ukraine in foreign media.

Credits:

Recorded by Sarah-Lou Lepers

Written by Lyuba Gook

Edited, Sound-designed and mixed by Lyuba Gook

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share.

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Chronicles of Ukrainian Journalists Across the EU

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:59:27 GMT

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 listen to Ukrainian journalists talk about their work and the coverage of Ukraine in foreign media.

Credits:

Recorded by Sarah-Lou Lepers

Written by Daniel Bilyk and Sarah-Lou Lepers

Edited, Sound-designed and mixed by Daniel Bilyk

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share.

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Reporting in a War Zone

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:01:09 GMT

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 and Eastern Europe for the French daily newspaper Libération, documentary filmmaker. Based in Ukraine since 2013

Roman Golovenko, lawyer for the Institute of Mass Information

Moderation by Tetiana Ogarkova – journalist, in charge of international outreach at Ukraine Crisis Media Centre.

Credits:

Hosted and organised by Oksana Mamchenkova

Proofread by Michael Bird

Edited, sound-designed and mixed by Lyuba Gook

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

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The Ethics of Covering the War

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 10:28:38 GMT

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, media-expert, executive director of the Institute of Mass Information

Fermin Torrano, freelance journalist, who covers Russia’s war against Ukraine for Spanish media

Angelina Kariakina, journalist, former head of news UA: PBC, cofounder Public Interest Journalism Lab

Credits:

Hosted and organised by Oksana Mamchenkova

Proofread by Michael Bird

Edited, sound-designed and mixed by Lyuba Gook

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share

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Panorama of perspectives

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:01:16 GMT

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 by Anna Myroniuk - the head of investigations at the Kyiv Independent.

Stream the video of the event on Facebook following this link.

Credits:

Panel organised by Oksana Mamchenkova

Hosted by Sarah-Lou Lepers

Proofread by Michael Bird

Edited, sound-designed and mixed by Daniel Bilyk

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share.

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Saying Goodbye 3/3

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 04:11:05 GMT

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.

Credits:

Recorded in Ukraine by Sarah-Lou Lepers

Written by Daniel Bilyk and Sarah-Lou Lepers

Proofread by Michael Bird

Edited, sound-designed and mixed by Daniel Bilyk

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share.

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Bucha 2/3

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 04:11:09 GMT

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:

Recorded in Ukraine by Sarah-Lou Lepers

Written by Daniel Bilyk and Sarah-Lou Lepers.

Proofread by Michael Bird

Edited, sound-designed and mixed by Daniel Bilyk

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share.

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Enter Ukraine 1/3

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:29:23 GMT

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 expertise on Ukraine, and meet with colleagues from Ukrainian media.

Credits:

Recorded in Ukraine by Sarah-Lou Lepers

Written by Daniel Bilyk and Sarah-Lou Lepers

Edited, Sound-designed and mixed by Daniel Bilyk

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share.

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