Jared Goyette
@JaredGoyette
American freelance journalist in Kyiv. Writing: @thenation Editing: @frontliner_ua, @the_ukrainians. @JaredGoyetteAlt
Three women were murdered and 19 wounded in the russian attack against a regular bus in the Sumy region today. It was full of villagers, 39 people. russian human safaris tested in Kherson, now extend geography. russians are monsters. They won't stop until they are forced to.
A fantastic, insightful — and sobering — profile of Yermak by @ChristopherJM in @ftweekend ft.com/content/4d6114…
Reposting this if you missed it. All foreign fighters look like this. All of them. I swear.
They made the goal. Following through on my promise to drop the shirtless Chosen Company photo that made us all drop our phones.
A quick word for those who are wondering what is going on in Ukraine. What may look like destabilization from the outside is the opposite. It is the process of making the society stronger by making it heard. Ukrainians keep choosing democracy. It is an everyday choice, really.
🚨 Independent journalism in Ukraine is under attack. President Zelensky’s office is pressuring advertisers to pull out from Ukrainska Pravda and blocking officials from speaking to its journalists. Why does it matter? 🧵
I returned to Ukraine from a trip to find one of my coworkers in a news gig died of a heart attack. We worked together on scripts. He was abouy my age. I wonder if stress was a factor, and how many people have died due to the war in ways that don't register in statistics.
When I wrote "an emergent authoritarian system serving the president’s inner circle and a powerful elite," I couldn't help but think of my country, which is in many ways a lot further down that path at the moment.
Zelenskyy has moved to repeal the law that clipped Ukraine’s anti‑corruption watchdogs. The big question remains: Can a nation fighting a fascist invasion still hold on to and advance hard-won democratic gains? The lines are clearer and not going away.
The continuous nature of it is key. The idea that the protests show that Ukraine is a democracy is only half right—they show that Ukrainians are willing to fight to stay a democracy, even during wartime, in the middle of a struggle for survival.
A quick word for those who are wondering what is going on in Ukraine. What may look like destabilization from the outside is the opposite. It is the process of making the society stronger by making it heard. Ukrainians keep choosing democracy. It is an everyday choice, really.