Your weekly update (Patreon)

You are seeing this post because you are one of the 635 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 outlet.

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 third week:

On Tuesday, the number of our patrons reached 600 people. As of Friday, we have 635 patrons pledging over $7,200 monthly. Your support is crucial for us to become financially sustainable.

On Thursday, the third episode of our podcast aired on all platforms. This podcast, “Media in Progress,” documents our journey of creating the Kyiv Independent. The third episode introduces you to the publication’s team.

On Thursday, the Kyiv Independent covered the Seven Years of Anti-Corruption Reforms conference in Kyiv as an official media partner. A recording of the event is available to watch in English here. At the event, we interviewed Artem Sytnyk, the head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, about the progress of high-profile investigations. The story will run next week.

Our write-up of the conference can be found here: ”West urges Ukraine to complete key judicial, anti-corruption reforms quickly”

Our website - kyivindependent.com - is fully operational and has been online for over a week. We have been closely following Russia’s military buildup as Ukraine and the U.S. seek to avert an all-out war.

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Meanwhile, we continue putting out our newsletter, Ukraine Daily. The newsletter comes out six days a week. Make sure 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.

Stay tuned for more news next week.

Thank you for your support and have a wonderful weekend!