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

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

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Here’s what we at the Kyiv Independent did this week:

On Sunday, an article about a Russian court overtly documenting the Russian military presence in the occupied Donbas quadrupled our daily readership within several hours.

We continued informing our readers about the ongoing threat of a Russian invasion. On Wednesday, Oleksiy Danilov, Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council secretary, said that Russia currently has nearly 122,000 troops deployed within 200 kilometers of the Ukrainian border.

This week, we finalized the registration of our NGO. Now we can accept donations of any size, including from abroad. Respond to this email if you’d like to learn more.

We signed agreements for our first two grants, from the European Endowment for Democracy and the International Renaissance Foundation in Ukraine.

Starting this week, the Kyiv Independent has a temporary office. Beeworking, a chain of coworking spaces in Kyiv, has offered us office space pro bono. We are very grateful for their support.

On Thursday, the fifth episode of our podcast aired on all platforms. This podcast, “Media in Progress,” documents our journey of creating the Kyiv Independent. Our podcaster Elina-Alem Kent talked to our defense reporter Illia Ponomarenko about the ongoing military escalation asking if Russia is actually planning to relaunch its full-scale war effort.

This week, we also covered high treason charges issued against ex-President Petro Poroshenko, the approval of booster shots in Ukraine and the failure to appoint the chief anti-corruption prosecutor. Read all stories atkyivindependent.com

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Stay tuned for more news next week.

Thank you for your support and have a wonderful weekend!