Ukraine War Brief

In this episode of The Press Lounge, Ukraine War Brief's sister podcast, Yulia and friend of the podcast Mariia Shuvalova, literary critic and lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Fulbright Scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University in the city of New York spoke with Serhii Plokhy, Ph.D., Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, and author of The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (2015) and The Russo Ukrainian War: The Return of History (2023), who explained why the West must support Ukraine, why an armistice would be a loss, and what history tells us about russian imperialism.

In today’s Ukraine War Brief, Rob talks about F-16 Deliveries, the implications of Ukraine shooting down five russian planes far behind the line of contact, and a bounty of bavovna.

In today’s Ukraine War Brief, Yewleea talks about Ukraine’s EU Accession Moving Forward, russia’s Economic Woes, and Trump Holding Up Ukraine Aid, and Hear from Michael Kofman, who talks about why it's wrong to describe the war as a stalemate

In today’s exclusive Ukraine War Brief, Yewleea talks about major sabotage, the "Storm of the Century" slams Qırım (Crimea), the US aid for Ukraine, and our investigation into the FSB. Professors Serhii Plokhy, the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, talked about what the West gets wrong, and Rory Finnin, Director of Ukrainian Studies at Cambridge University, talks about how russians view Qırım (Crimea).

In today’s Ukraine War Brief, Yewleea talks about massive air assaults on Kyiv, getting cranky in Krynky, and the Dutch election.