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Olesia Tytarenko: Fear that one day my contacts will no longer be online

Olesia Tytarenko is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of News at the National Public Broadcaster of Ukraine (Suspilne) and former Special Correspondent of Radio France Internationale in Kiev. She participated in the M100YEJ in 2017 and the M100Colloquium in 2022.
Twitter: @OlesiaTytarenko

This war is online. Since 24 February, I’ve learned a lot about missiles, drones, and electricity cuts. The high society of Patriots, Leopards, and F-16 replaced the previously desired world of Eighth Avenue, le quai d’Orsay, and Boston, MA. During these 12 months, I’ve been rediscovering journalism, getting used to the breaking news regime, and coping with my own war experiences. I stayed home and traveled within the country a lot. As if I was afraid of never seeing the fields, the boundless steppes, the Dnieper’s plunging shore again. Like never before, I enjoyed the family weekends, my mom’s welcome dinner, my brother’s giggles, and my father’s “see you soon” while boarding the train back to Kyiv. As if I was…

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Sara Cincurova: My heart stays with the Babushkas who live on the frontlines

Sara Cincurova is a Slovak human rights journalist focusing on migration, human rights, humanitarian issues and women’s rights. Her work has been published in The Guardian, BBC, Al Jazeera, HuffPost and The New Humanitarian, among others. She participated in the M100YEJ in 2021.
Twitter: Sara_Cincurova

Although I am not based in Ukraine full-time, I have been covering the war regularly since 2014, and covered February 24 events from Kharkiv. Being a freelancer, my life has been at risk on several occasions, especially while I was travelling alone. I deeply honour and value the work of my Ukrainian colleagues who report tirelessly and don’t always have the opportunity to take time to rest.
Since February 24, a lot has changed: in one year, I have documented the lives of those who fled, those who became IDPs, those who suffered war crimes, but also those who ended up being exploited in the EU.

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Sergej Sumlenny: Power Stations for Ukraine

Sergei Sumlenny holds a PhD in political science and is the founder of the European Resilience Initiative Center. ER is an expert on Central and Eastern Europe and was Head of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Kyiv from 2015-2021.

In January 2023, I brought eight power stations and other relief supplies to Ukraine. This, only possible thanks to massive donations, made the lives of dozens of Ukrainians easier. Starting the fundraising campaign was a spontaneous but very clear decision. Shortly before Christmas, my former Ukrainian colleague Viktoriia Solohub sent me a photo. On it is a small power station, i.e. a rather large modern battery with computer control, standing in the hallway of a housing silo. A poinsettia is plugged into the station. “We had another Russian missile attack,” she wrote me. “As usual, we hid from shrapnel in the stairwell where there are no windows. The neighbours’ children were afraid of the dark, so their parents lit a Christmas star for them.”

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