Featured Videos
How Zelensky became Ukraine's president in 2019
It's been five years since Volodymyr Zelensky, then the country's best-known comedian, became Ukraine's president. Outside Ukraine, few remember the wild campaign that landed Zelensky a seat in the president's office. Watch the Kyiv Independent's recap of Zelensky's funny, groundbreaking campaign that resulted in a landslide victory for the now much more serious president.
Why Russia sent Ukrainian children to North Korea, explained
Between life and death under Russian drones in Kherson
Inside a Ukrainian power plant Russia keeps hitting
EU ministers on the bloc's 2-point peace plan for Ukraine
Documentary
Can You Hear Me? The Invisible Battles of Ukrainian Military Medics
The Kyiv Independent's journalists Francis Farrell and Olena Zashko followed a group of Ukrainian military medics as they journeyed from the heat of battle in war-torn Ukraine to the serene forests of Sweden for a short mental health retreat.
War Crimes Investigations Unit
Exposing Russia’s indoctrination of Ukrainian children
Without justice, war will come back, veteran reporter says
