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Kateryna Lisunova

Kateryna Lisunova is a Ukrainian journalist based in Washington, D.C., and a Media Advisor at Razom for Ukraine. She is a former Voice of America Congressional correspondent and a freelance contributor for the BBC. She currently contributes to Ukrainska Pravda and Times Radio. Originally from Kyiv, she has worked as a multimedia journalist for over 14 years, specializing in U.S.–Ukraine relations.

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Russian missile and drone strikes in Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 2, 2026.

American media should make sure not to become another missile in Russia's hands to strike Ukraine

by Kateryna Lisunova
Russia has no right to call its ballistic missile attacks on Ukraine "retaliatory strikes" in a war that it started. There is only one side that has the right to retaliate: the side that was attacked. By launching a large-scale war against Ukraine, Moscow effectively made itself a legitimate target for Kyiv's forces. The attacked side has the right to defend and protect itself, its territory, and its people. Yet many American media outlets, after five years of Russia's brutal full-scale invasi