We’re All Tired. But We’ve Adapted – How Ukrainians Keep Their Spirit

Ukrainians might be losing their best in this war, but it doesn’t mean they’re ready to stop fighting

19 December 2023

After almost two years of Russian full-scale invasion, Ukrainians face a bitter perspective: the war will not end anytime soon. Western military and financial aid may be slowing down because of internal political issues, which means Putin will get what he needs – time. For Ukraine and its best people on the battlefield, this is a tragedy.

I meet Lisa Zharikova during her short stay in Kyiv. She’s got just a few hours in the city as her unit is getting prepared for a combat mission in Donbas. We speak shortly before the 10th anniversary of Euromaydan, Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity on 29 November 2013.  

Lisa was a student at that time, getting her MA in Ukrainian literature and protesting peacefully at the Kyiv central square, when riot police violently dispersed the crowd, brutally beating up young girls and boys. 

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Angelina Kariakina

Angelina Kariakina is a journalist and editor based in Kyiv. She has reported on Ukrainian political and social affairs, including the Maidan demonstrations and the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, for Euronews' Kyiv bureau, and has also worked as a journalist and presenter for Hromadske, Ukraine's major independent media outlet, where she covered the cases of Oleg Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko, and conducted award-winning investigative reporting. From 2017-2020 she was editor-in-chief at Hromadske. In March 2020 she co-founded the Public Interest Journalism Lab, which seeks to popularize best practices for public interest journalism in the digital age. She used to run news at Ukrainian Public Broadcaster “Suspilne” (2021-2023). Currently works as the advisor to the head of board.

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