Illia Ponomarenko on Reporting From Ukraine’s Front Lines

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Illia Ponomarenko was a 29-year-old journalist for the newspaper he co-founded, The Kyiv Independent. His daily, on-the-ground reporting quickly captured an international audience: by 2023 the German media organization Der Spiegel called him “likely the best-known Ukrainian after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.” Ponomarenko’s new book, “I Will Show You How It Was,” provides a first-person account of the Battle of Kyiv and its impact on civilians. “Life during the Battle of Kyiv,” he writes, “was a bizarre mixture of inconceivable inspiration, unity, and pride—and at the same time, of dark grief and mourning.” We talk to Ponomarenko about what he’s witnessed over the past two years and his plea for America to “do the right thing.” Guest: Illia Ponomarenko, journalist and author, “I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv”; former defense and security reporter, The Kyiv Post; co-founder, The Kyiv Independent. He has covered the war in eastern Ukraine since the conflict's beginning, as well as Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine since 2022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.6	Coming up on forum, Ilya Ponomerenko has become one of Ukraine's best-known journalists, drawing more than a million followers on X, formerly Twitter, with his first-hand accounts of Russia's attack on Keith in February of 2022.
1:31.7	His tweets of Ukraine's resolve on the battlefield,
1:34.1	his personal reflections and dark humor,
1:36.8	have become the basis of his new book called,
1:39.0	I will show you how it was.
1:41.7	Life during the Battle of Keeve, he writes,
1:43.6	was a bizarre mixture of inconceivable
1:45.5	inspiration, unity, and pride. It's that spirit, Ponomerenko says, Ukraine needs now more than ever
1:51.7	after more than two years of relentless fighting. He joins us after this news.
1:59.9	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
2:03.1	Ilya Ponamorenko was 29 years old when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
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