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Ukraine World : podcast
10 june
06h00
Greece, Ukraine, Communism, War, Europe - with Christos Chomenidis
I read this book with absolute passion. While it is a novel, it is truly an epic the story of a family told through the greatest upheavals and...
28 may
08h10
Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: What Are Their Stories? - with Colin Freeman
Although Russia claims to be waging a war against the so-called West, no other country has officially deployed its military to fight alongside...
21 may
11h18
Mariupol: Inside Russia’s Massive War Crime - with James Verini
On March 16, 2022, the Russian army committed one of the gravest war crimes of its invasion of Ukraine. It dropped air bombs on the Mariupol Drama...
13 may
09h21
How Russians Are Erasing Life in Ukraine’s South - with Zarina Zabrisky
The Russian army is hunting people in Kherson, a major city in the southern part of Ukraine. It is estimated that 700 Russian drones attack Kherson...
07 may
07h51
Why Europe must fix its defence now - with Moritz Schularick
Ukraine has won time for Europe. A vast amount of time. But the price of this time has been tremendous. It is measured not in money, but in human...
29 april
07h15
How Russia can be defeated - with Lesia Ogryzko
In recent months, Ukrainian deep strikes into Russia have outnumbered Russian strikes on Ukraine. Ukraine has managed to build its military...
23 april
06h59
Odesa in love and war - with Julian Evans
Let’s travel for a moment. Imagine you are on the shore of the Black Sea, in Odesa one of the most beautiful cities in Eastern Europe.Odesa possesses...
15 april
06h00
Can Europe become a security union? - with Borja Lasheras
Can Europe become a genuine security union? Is it truly aware of the 21st-century geopolitical dangers that threaten its very existence? How central...
10 april
09h42
What Black Americans and Ukrainians can tell each other
What do Ukrainians and Black Americans share in their historical and cultural experiences? Can we draw comparisons between serfdom and slavery, or...
19 march
10h04
Why Ukraine’s resistance starts with ordinary people
How did two friends save hundreds of civilians? How did one restaurant feed tens of thousands in a besieged city? What does a former entrepreneur...
16 march
11h55
Why the world needs Ukraine’s war tech - with Yulia Marushevska
Why has Ukraine rapidly emerged as a global leader in advanced defense technology? What is the secret behind this innovation? How has warfare evolved...
19 february
07h54
Decoding Trump’s Ukraine policy - with Christopher Atwood
Since Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency, Russia has drastically escalated its missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian cities. In January...
10 february
10h49
Russia’s energy terror against Ukraine - with Oksana Ishchuk
During this record-breaking cold winter, millions of Ukrainians are regularly left without electricity, water, or heat as temperatures plummet to -20...
05 february
15h57
Can Ukraine win the technological war? - with Volodymyr Havrylov
What are the prospects for peace talks and why are many Ukrainians skeptical about them? Does Ukraine have technological parity with Russia on the...
28 january
07h37
Cities without kings: humanity’s prehistory on Ukrainian soil with David Wengrow
What can the deep past of Ukrainian lands reveal about the global story of humanity? Six thousand years ago, mega-sites flourished in what is now...
17 december
09h19
Ukraine in 2025: can peace talks succeed?
In 2025, Ukraine is facing unprecedented pressure from one of its key partners, the United States. The Trump administration has chosen not to act as...
08 december
09h57
How Ukrainians fund their own defense: the story of Come Back Alive
Imagine an NGO that has raised over one billion dollars to support the Ukrainian army. Imagine a civil society initiative that purchases armaments...
01 december
11h32
Ukrainian geopolitical thought - with Danylo Lubkivsky
Ukraine has its own tradition of geopolitical thinking a tradition that reaches deep into the past and continues to shape the country’s strategic...
28 november
08h38
Why the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church is unique - with Natalia Shlikhta
What makes the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church so unique? Why is it such a remarkable attempt to bridge the divide between Eastern and Western...
27 november
08h18
Ukrainian culture: how to reassemble a broken picture - with Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta
Ukrainian cultural heritage is not something that quietly settles into national archives. In reality, it is the result of a dramatic struggle against...
21 november
07h00
How Russia built its myth of Kyiv - with Kateryna Dysa
Russian propaganda claims that Ukraine is not a separate nation, but merely a preliminary form of Russia. Today’s Kremlin ideology seeks to annex...
19 november
11h28
Nobel Laureate Oleksandra Matviychuk on Ukraine’s Moral Core
She is not only a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is not only one of the most visible human-rights defenders in Europe in recent decades. She is not...
03 november
12h41
Being a Ukrainian soldier - what is it like? - with Vladyslav Urubkov
How is the life of a soldier different from that of a civilian? Which aspects of it are hardest for civilians to understand?What is happening on the...
30 october
12h10
Why Europe’s security depends on Ukraine - with Yevhen Hlibovytskyi
Ukraine is not a burden for Europe it’s a chance for Europe.Today, European security is unthinkable without Ukraine. Ukraine has the strongest army...
28 october
08h00
How to rediscover Ukraine: the story of Ukraïner - with Julia Tymoshenko
In this episode, we will talk about Ukraïner : a great initiative that has done a great deal to help rediscover Ukraine both from within and from...
27 october
14h41
Ukrainian children, kidnapped and reprogrammed by Russia - with Kateryna Rashevska
In this episode, we discuss how Russia destroys Ukrainian families, kidnaps Ukrainian children including those who have parents and reprograms them,...
23 october
07h54
Where Ukrainians get their news in war - with Kostiantyn Kvurt
Where do Ukrainians get their news? What are the key trends in Ukraine’s media sector during the war? Do citizens trust information coming from the...
21 october
11h44
Timothy Snyder on why history matters and how we get it wrong
In September 2025, in Kyiv, a prominent American historian Timothy Snyder received the Vasyl Stus Prize a Ukrainian award honoring the name of Vasyl...
17 october
06h00
A Brief History (and Present) of Ukrainian Theatre with Mayhill Fowler
What do we know about theatre the most ephemeral of the arts in Ukraine? What role did Ukrainian theatre play in Soviet times? How is the heritage of...
15 october
06h00
How Poetry Shaped the Ukrainian Nation with Rory Finnin
Why is Taras Shevchenko not only the founding father of Ukrainian poetry but also of Ukrainian identity? What aspects of his legacy remain alive...
13 october
06h00
Niall Ferguson on Empires, Networks, and Ukraine
Are all empires equally bad? If some were better than others, what criteria can we use to make such judgments? Why must we study networks, not only...
10 october
09h30
How Ukraine fights Russian drones - with Taras Tymochko
Let’s take a deeper look into drone warfare and the long-term changes it is bringing to the battlefield. How is Ukraine countering Russian drone...
29 september
06h00
How Ukraine’s IT keeps surprising the world - with Taras Tymoshchuk
How is Ukrainian IT transforming the country’s defence? Why is technology key to success in today’s war? Why is Ukraine one of the world’s most...
25 september
07h01
Why Ukrainian History Matters Globally with Yaroslav Hrytsak
Yaroslav Hrytsak is one of Ukraine’s leading historians and public intellectuals. His recent book in Ukrainian, Overcoming the Past: A Global History...
18 september
06h00
Can Security Guarantees Stop Russia’s War? with Hanna Shelest
If Ukraine does not receive real security guarantees, the war will continue and is likely to spill over into the rest of Europe. But what kind of...
16 september
09h28
aptivity, torture, violence, and love - with Maksym Butkevych
Maksym Butkevych is a prominent Ukrainian human rights defender. Before the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he dedicated his efforts to the...
22 august
08h01
Ukraine vs Russia: who leads the tech battle? - with Glib Voloskyi
Why is technology playing such a decisive role in this war? Who is ahead in technological innovation Ukraine or Russia? How are drones reshaping the...
19 august
10h22
How Russians hunt civilians in Kherson - with Zarina Zabrisky
Kherson may be the most dangerous regional center in Ukraine. Occupied by Russian forces in 2022, its residents were subjected to torture and...
12 august
10h50
Why Trump’s Ukraine plan won’t work - with Tetyana Ogarkova
Trump is set to meet with Putin in Alaska on August 15. Media reports and leaks ahead of this meeting, along with statements by President Trump and...
11 august
06h33
Russian war crimes explained by Nobel-winning Ukrainian NGO - with Oleksandra Romantsova
Russia has committed over 160,000 war crimes in Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s office. What kinds of crimes are most widespread...
07 august
14h15
What research tells us about the Ukrainian army - with Oleksiy Moskalenko
How can we understand what’s happening inside the Ukrainian army?How do soldiers feel? What challenges do they face? What parts of military life do...
29 july
09h18
How Does Ukraine Talk to the Wider World? We Asked the Ukrainian Institute
Ukraine wants to be heard around the world. But we must also learn to listen to the wider world in return.The Ukrainian Institute the country’s...
28 july
10h14
Why colonialism is more complicated than you think - with Botakoz Kassymbekova
What’s the difference between colonialism and imperialism? What types of colonialism can we identify and which of them are playing out in Russia’s...
23 july
13h51
Why Russia fears Ukrainian literature - with Myroslav Shkandrij
Myroslav Shkandrij is a prominent scholar of Ukrainian cultural history and Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba in Canada.He has written...
15 july
14h06
His callsign is Caesar, he’s British, and he fights for Ukraine
There are foreigners fighting for Ukraine in this war but their numbers are small.They are not sent by their governments; they come as volunteers,...
09 july
13h50
Propaganda: shaping narratives in times of war. A public discussion at CEU, Vienna
Propaganda has long been a powerful tool for shaping public opinion, influencing international discourse, and justifying military actions. In Russia...
07 july
12h56
Nobel-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz on the Failures of Neoliberalism and Sanctions Against Russia
Joseph Stiglitz is a world-renowned economist and thinker who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001. I met him in Tbilisi, the...
04 july
11h54
How Drones Are Dramatically Changing the War - with Nataliya Gumenyuk
This is a new kind of war. Drones have fundamentally changed its nature and continue to do so every day. The threats now come from above, not just...
03 july
13h09
Look at Georgia to Better Understand Ukraine and Russia - with Tornike Gordadze
Why is Georgia drifting toward authoritarianism? Why is its current government aligning more closely with Russia and blaming its predecessors for...
20 june
10h41
Hannah Arendt on evil: what can we learn from her today? - with Marci Shore
Some might argue that the concept of evil is outdated in our relativistic age. And yet how can we speak of war crimes, cruelty, or the neglect of...
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