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

Ukrainian Master Chef Yevhen Klopotenko has become an innovative cultural ambassador for Ukrainian cuisine. Mr. Klopotenko applied to UNESCO to obtain international recognition for borshch. As a result of his efforts, in July 2022 UNESCO inscribed the Culture of Ukrainian borshch on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in need of urgent safeguarding. He talks about his career and culinary efforts which include a Ukrainian cookbook, a restaurant in Kyiv and the upcoming launch of Ukrainian cafes in New York and Washington, D.C. https://klopotenko.com/en/

Kurt Volker is an American diplomat with more than 35 years experience in government, academia and the private sector. He is a well known expert in U.S. foreign and national security policy. He was the US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations from 2017-2019 and the US Ambassador to NATO in 2008-2009. Ambassador Volker discusses the Russian invasion of Ukraine and what the country's prospects are for winning the war. https://ldns.asu.edu/about/ambassador-kurt-volker https://bgrdc.com/team-member-post/ambassador-kurt-volker/

Stefan Korshak is the senior defense correspondent for the Kyiv Post newspaper published in English in Kyiv, Ukraine. He talks about his experiences during the early days of the war, the ongoing conflict and the technology Ukraine is using to secure a strategic advantage during the war. https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/11

Lucia Bondar is a Ukrainian publisher and author. Her coffee table books focus on architecture and design in Ukraine. Ms. Bondar's latest book, "Ukraine Rising: Contemporary Creative Culture from Ukraine" is a collaboration with the independent German book publisher Gestalten based in Berlin. This book presents the work of the Ukrainian creative community and highlights their innovation and intrepid spirit. https://cp-publishing.com.ua/en/main-page/ https://us.gestalten.com/products/ukraine-rising

In 2017 Ukrainian American doctors Nelya and Serhii Melnitchouk founded a non-profit to work on improving cancer and trauma care in Ukraine. The focus of Global Medical Knowledge Alliance (GMKA) is to develop physician and patient educational content that is evidence based, written by experts, and available through an online educational platform. Serhii is a cardiac surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor at Harvard

Medical School in Boston. Nelya is a cancer surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and also a Harvard Medical School assistant professor in Boston. They discuss their non-profit project and how it is bringing a higher level of medical care to Ukraine. https://gmka.org/

The implementation of geothermal energy in Ukraine could bring an important new source to ensure energy security. Taras Popadynets, head of Geothermal Ukraine, and Yuliia Demchuk, board member, discuss why the NGO Geothermal Ukraine was established and what the advantages are in the implementation of geothermal energy in Ukraine.

https://geothermalukraine.org/

Prof. Volodymyr Dubovyk is the Director, Center for International Studies at Mechnikov National University, Odesa, Ukraine. He is a Ukrainian expert on U.S.-Ukraine relations and security in the Black Sea region. Prof. Dubovyk is currently a visiting scholar at the Tufts University Fletcher Russia and Eurasia program in Massachusetts. He offers his views on U.S.-Ukraine relations and Ukraine's increasing success in counteracting Russia in the Black Sea region. http://cis-onu.com/en/cv-dubovyk

On June 5, 2023, the Kahkovka Dam was breached in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine. The disaster has been cited as evidence of Russian ecological warfare against Ukraine. Freelance Ukrainian American journalist Mark Temnycky talks about what happened and the long term impact for Ukraine and the global economy. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/mark-temnycky/

The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) promotes the research, study, and understanding of the Holodomor, which was the man-made Famine in Ukraine of 1932–33. HREC was established in 2013 with the generous support of the Temerty Foundation as a project of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) at the University of Alberta. The HREC mandate is carried out by CIUS staff in Toronto and Edmonton offices and researchers in Ukraine. Executive Director Marta Baziuk discusses the history of the HREC and its current programs to recognize the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor.

https://holodomor.ca/

Pavlo Kovtoniuk is a cofounder of the Ukrainian Health Center (UHC). The UHC is a think tank based in Kyiv Ukraine offering consultancy, analytics, and educational services. Mr. Kovtoniuk talks about the extreme challenges faced by the health care system in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began in February 2024 and offers his views on what might lie ahead. https://uhc.org.ua/en/home/