Kyiv Independent editor: ‘Our readers want Russia to suffer but we can’t be propagandists’
Olga Rudenko, editor of the Kyiv Independent. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The GuardianView image in fullscreenOlga Rudenko, editor of the Kyiv Independent. This year employees did not bother planning for a peacetime scenario in their annual strategy session.
- ▪Olga Rudenko, editor of the Kyiv Independent.
- ▪Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The GuardianView image in fullscreenOlga Rudenko, editor of the Kyiv Independent.
- ▪This year employees did not bother planning for a peacetime scenario in their annual strategy session.
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Olga Rudenko, editor of the Kyiv Independent. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The GuardianView image in fullscreenOlga Rudenko, editor of the Kyiv Independent. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The GuardianUkraineKyiv Independent editor: ‘Our readers want Russia to suffer but we can’t be propagandists’Olga Rudenko says news site has duty to report on Russian military gains and Ukrainian corruption even if subjects are not so well readDan Sabbagh in KyivThu 1 Oct 2026 00.00 EDTLast modified on Thu 1 Oct 2026 00.01 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleReaders of Ukraine’s leading English news site “really want Russia to suffer” but that should not lead the title to downplay the military and political problems facing Kyiv, its editor has said.Speaking to the Guardian before an event to London, Olga…
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