Your weekly update (Patreon)

You are seeing this post because you are one of the 560 people who have pledged monthly support to the Kyiv Independent via Patreon.

Each Friday, we inform our community about the work of the Kyiv Independent, a new Ukrainian media.

We are extremely grateful for your help in carrying out our mission: bringing quality stories about Ukraine to the world.

Here’s what we did in the Kyiv Independent’s second week:

On Monday, we reached 500 patrons within a week of setting up our Patreon. As of Friday, we have 560 patrons pledging over $6,300 each month. This is an incredible achievement and the first step for us to become financially sustainable.

On Wednesday, our GoFundMe campaign successfully reached our target sum of £10,000 just a week since the launch. The donations will help us kickstart our independent media outlet, free of oligarch cash. Anyone wishing to make a one-time donation can still do so via GoFundMe.

Thank you for your support.

On Thursday, we launched our new website - kyivindependent.com! As the Kyiv Post remains dormant, we are taking up the mantle. Ukraine has recovered its global voice. We are now ready to provide you with comprehensive coverage of Ukraine and, soon, Easten Europe.

We currently have the following categories: National, Politics, Business, Opinion, Eastern Europe, Tech, and Culture, and are planning on launching an Investigations section soon.

Here’s a recommended story for you: “If Russia launches blitzkrieg into Ukraine, how would it look?”

On Thursday, the second episode of our podcast aired on all platforms. This podcast, “Media in Progress,” documents our journey of creating the Kyiv Independent. The second episode tells the story of how we were embroiled in a week-long tug-of-war to pick a name for our new media outlet. Listen to the team’s heated debates, live conversations and be part of our quest for independent journalism.

Meanwhile, we keep putting out our newsletter, Ukraine Daily. The newsletter comes out six days a week. Make sure that you’re subscribed to it.

Trying to launch a new media outlet is an uphill battle and our team is working 24/7 in four different time zones across the globe.

We have more news coming for you next week, stay tuned!

Thank you for your support and have a wonderful weekend!