Krynytsya (The Well), your wellspring for Ukraine and Ukrainians

Daria Synhaievska is an analyst and journalist with the multimedia project UkraineWorld. For a period of time, she cohosted the podcast, "Explaining Ukraine". In her December 2025 analysis, "The Grid, the State, and the War: Ukraine’s Double Fight Against Missiles and Corruption", Ms. Synhaievska outlines the many challenges faced by Kyiv in rebuilding the grid, confronting deep corruption and fighting for electricity and the integrity of the state. She has a detailed proflile on the Wow Woman online platform established by the Ukrainian Olga Smaidenko in 2015. In this interview Ms. Synhaievska offers her thoughts on how Ukraine is transforming itself for future generations. https://ukraineworld.org/en/articles/analysis/fight-against-missiles-and-corruption https://www.wowwoman.com/inside-ukraine-daria-synhaievska-analyst-journalist-scholar-kyiv

Yuriy Vysoven is the founder of the Ukrainian startup company Aerobavovna. The company produces aerostats (aerial baloons) that are used for military reconnaissance, surveillance and electronic warfare during the Russian invasion. Mr. Vysoven reviews the history of aerostats in war and points out the advantage of using this type of technology for defense. https://www.aerobavovna.com/ https://techukraine.org/2025/05/19/sky-high-advantage-aerobavovna-launches-beefed-up-aerostat-for-advanced-sigint-and-ew-payloads/

Peter Dickinson has been based in Ukraine for more than 25 years as a journalist, editor, and commentator. He is currently the Editor for the Atlantic Council's UkraineAlert blog and Chief Editor of Business Ukraine magazine. Mr. Dickinson looks at the recent Hungarian general election and how the win by Tisza party member Peter Magyar might change the countyr's foreign policy towards Ukraine. He also comments on Ukraine's President Zelenskyy and his recent diplomatic efforts to secure new Middle East allies. www.linkedin.com/in/peter-dickinson-37193830/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukrainian-long-range-drones-are-turning-russias-size-into-a-weakness/

Kateryna Odarchenko is a political consultant and strategist for Ukraine as well as for several other countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union. She is the founder and CEO of the SIC Group Ukraine and president of the PolitA Institute for Democracy and Development. Ms. Odarchenko offers her perspectives on politics and democracy in Ukraine. She also discusses whether it is possible to hold elections during the current war. And she speculates on what role Ukrainian military veterans might play in the country after the war ends. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/kateryna-odarchenko https://sic-group.com.ua/ https://cepa.org/article/can-war-veterans-build-a-better-ukraine/

Steven Moore is a former chief of staff in the U.S. House of Representatives and founder of the NGO the Ukraine Freedom Project (UFP). He founded it in 2022 to help Ukraine with aid during the Russian invasion. He has been actively involved in efforts to convince U.S. conservatives, especially in the House of Representatives, to support military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine. Mr. Moore also helped produce a documentary, "A Faith Under Siege". The document film crew collected the stories of some forty Ukrainian evangelical Christians who had been oppressed, tortured and murdered by the Russians. He describes his activities in Ukraine and Washington, D.C. and plans for the future. https://www.ukrainefreedomproject.org/about https://www.faithundersiege.com/ https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/barrett-moore-catholic-church-in-ukraine https://www.ukrainer.net/en/ukraine-through-the-eyes-of-steven-moore/

Olena Malytska is the CEO of ISE Group, a nonprofit organization operating as a think tank and corporate accelerator, with offices in Kyiv, Warsaw, and Washington, D.C. Alexander Romanishyn serves as a board member of the organization. In partnership with the Ukrainian American Chamber of Commerce and Industry, ISE released a landmark study in the fall 2025 titled "Economic Impact of Ukrainian-American Businesses in the U.S". The study found that Ukrainian American companies generate nearly $60 billion in annual revenue - roughly equivalent to the size of North Dakota’s economy - and support approximately 300,000 jobs across the United States.

In this conversation, Ms. Malytska and Mr. Romanishyn discuss ISE Group’s mission and key accomplishments. They also highlight the key findings of this groundbreaking study on the Ukrainian American community: https://ise-group.org/impact-study

To contribute your story to the second edition of the study, please submit it here: https://ise-group.org/yourstory

Steven Pifer was the United States ambassador to Ukraine from 1998-2000. Currently he is an affiliate with Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation and a nonresident fellow with the Brookings Institution. Ambassador Pifer does not think the U.S. diplomatic effort to end the war in Ukraine is working. He believes Russian President Putin is unwilling to make any concessions to end the war and is completely focused on winning on the battlefield. He states that now is the wrong time for the U.S. to lift sanctions on Russian oil. Mr. Pifer agrees with Ukraine President Zelenskyy's strategy of offering help to the Gulf States,. the U.S. and Israel through his advisors on drone warfare during the Iran war. Ambassador Pifer says the Trump administration should pressure President Putin to make concessions instead of leaning on President Zelenskyy. https://www.brookings.edu/people/steven-pifer/ https://www.kyivpost.com/post/71657 https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/steven-pifer

Michael Gulachok is a third generation Ukrainian American and a long time community activist in Binghamton, New York. His paternal grandparents were among the first wave of Ukrainians who came to the U.S. in the early part of the twentieth century. They came from the Boyko villge of Ulucz in southeast Poland (then in Galicia) which is known for its 16th century wooden tserkva (Ukrainian church). Mr. Gulachok has been a features writer for the Tioga County Courier in Owego, New York, for 42 years. He describes life in the Binghamton Ukrainian American community and its efforts to help Ukraine during the Russian invasion. https://omeka.binghamton.edu/omeka/items/show/587 http://www.ulucz.org/?p=2711

Jurij Fedynskyj is a Ukrainian American composer, musician, singer-songwriter, luthier, cultural activist and teacher. His maternal grandparents came to the U.S. from Ukraine. He grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, but left the U.S. in 1998 to pursue his music education in Ukraine. Mr. Fedynskyj now lives and works with his wife and children in the village of Kryachkivka in the Poltava region of eastern Ukraine. He is the leader and producer of the Kobzar Armada and the Fedynskyj Family Singers, and also the director of "Kobzarskiy Tabir" which hosts the festival and camps in Kryachkivka. He is also actively involved in stringed-instrument making through the Poltava Kobzar Guild. In the Kobzar tradition, Jurij tours with his ensembles throughout Europe, the UK, the U.S., Canada and Ukraine. In this interview, Mr. Fedynskkyj shares the details of his musical life in Ukraine and his remarkable efforts to revive and preserve ancient Ukrainian folk music traditions. https://jurijfedynskyj.wixsite.com/krachkyvka/fedynskyj https://www.ukrainer.net/en/fedynskyy-music-workshop/

The economist Timothy Ash is an associate fellow in the Russia and Eurasia program at Chatham House in the UK and a senior sovereign strategist at RBC Bluebay Asset Management in London. He is a seasoned expert on political and economic affairs in Russia and Ukraine. Mr. Ash talks about the major challenges Ukraine faces in the current peace negotiations brokered by the U.S. between them and Russia. He believes the Trump Administration offers little hope to end the Russia-Ukraine war. He suggests the EU should announce a specific date for Ukraine's entry into the EU to provide a focus for the ongoing process and provide guarantees for Ukraine's existence as an independent state. https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/timothy-ash https://www.kyivpost.com/post/68604