#22 Brian Bonner, ex editor of The Kyiv Post provides insights from war-torn Ukraine

The guest of this episode is Brian Bonner, a former chief editor of the Kyiv Post, the English-language weekly newspaper in Ukraine. He is an American national from Minnesota who resides in Kyiv since the end of the 90s.

It was a pure luck to interview Mr. Bonner between electricity outages in the Ukrainian capital city caused by the Russian missile attacks on the energy infrastructure. He explained why he remains in the war-torn country and why the Ukrainians will survive winter of 2022-2023. We discussed why Ukraine was slow in reforms during three decades of independence since the collapse of the Soviet Union and didn’t become a member of the European Union and NATO. He expressed his opinion about achievements and faults of different Ukrainian Presidents, comparing pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych with pro-Western Volodymyr Zelensky and Petro Poroshenko. Mr. Bonner commented on work of Ukrainian journalists and Western reporters parachuted there to cover the war.

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