Kyiv Independent’s Olga Rudenko is set on telling the truth in wartime, despite clumsy instances of state harassment

For Olga Rudenko, the editor of the Kyiv Independent, journalism is not just a profession but a moral imperative. “Our soldiers in the frontline are fighting for Ukraine to define its own future,” she says. “They are fighting for Ukraine not to be Russia; Russia is associated with no freedom of speech, no freedom of media, no freedom whatever.

“If they are dying, we should be using those rights.”

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