Amy B. Zegart
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) says it struck a Russian submarine in the port of Novorossiysk that was armed with Kalibr cruise missiles, following a unique special operation using underwater drones.
The SBU says Ukrainian forces conducted another …
As U.S. pressure on Kyiv grows, Ukrainians oppose Russian demands. If concessions are put up for a vote, those who spoke with the Kyiv Independent said they would flat out deny the terms.
Last week, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that any …
Few decision makers are interested in making the High Anti-Corruption Court actually work, Vira Mykhailenko, the court's head, said in an interview with the Kyiv Independent.
Set up in 2019 as part of a Western-backed reform, the court was designed to …
At the initiative of the Ukrainian Institute, the Kyiv Independent announces the launch of "The Hidden Canon: Ukraine's Literary Iconoclasts," a new series celebrating Ukrainian classic literature with the goal of bringing it to a wider international …
"It’s an interesting feeling during an air attack. Danger, danger, and again danger," says Yurii, a Ukrainian energy worker, from the control center of a war-scarred thermal power plant.
Yurii works for DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy firm, as …
A participant in the fighting near Kupyansk, Yuriy Butusov, has laid out how Ukrainian forces mounted a successful counterattack, derailed Russia’s advance and shifted momentum on one of the most difficult sectors of the front.
“I’ve been working for …
