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Short List of Recommended Resources on the War in Ukraine
Artiukh, Volodymyr, and Taras Fedirko, “No, the West Didn’t Halt Ukraine’s Peace Talks With Russia,” Novara Media, Oct. 17, 2022.
Bernabe, Rafael, “The Left and Ukraine: Anti-Imperialism or Alter-Imperialism?” New Politics, Sept. 20, 2023.
Bilous, Taras, “A Letter to the Western Left from Kyiv,” Open Democracy, Feb. 25, 2022.
Bondar, Denys, and Zakhar Popovych, “The Left View on the Prospects of Peace Negotiations,” Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement), Dec. 12, 2022.
Budraitskis, Ilya, “Putinism: A New Form of Fascism?“ Spectre, Oct. 27, 2022.
The Feminist Initiative Group, “The Right to Resist: A Feminist Manifesto,” Commons, July 7, 2022.
Fletcher, Bill Jr., Don Rojas, and Barbara Smith, “Why African Americans Should Support Ukraine,” Word in Black, April 13, 2023.
Fletcher, Bill Jr.; Olesia Briazgunova; Fabio Bosco; Liz Lawrence, “What does solidarity with Ukraine’s workers look like?” Real News Network, Sept. 7, 2023.
Hawkins, Howie, “National Tour of Ukrainian and Russian Leftists Against the War in Ukraine,” Counterpunch, Aug. 29, 2023.
Hawkins, Howie, “US ecosocialist: ‘Support Ukraine against Russia’s military imperialism and the West’s economic imperialism’,” Green Left, Feb. 2, 2023.
Karadjis, Michael, “Ukraine myths used to justify Putin’s terror,” June 15, 2023.
Liasheva, Alona, “A Ukrainian Socialist Lays Out the Aims and Struggles of Her Country’s Left,” Truthout, Feb. 24, 2023.
Matveev, Ilya, The Crisis at the Door: Social Decline in Russia After 24 February 2022 (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Series “The Russian Crisis”. Paper #3), Feb. 2023.
Perekhoda, Hannah, “Ukraine: Peace in Donbas ‘requires the complete withdrawal of Russian armed forces’,” Green Left Weekly, Nov. 14, 2022.
Perekhoda, Hanna, and Ilya Budraitskis, “Ukrainian & Russian Activists on How Putin’s War Emboldens ‘Authoritarian Forces’ Around the World,” Democracy Now!, Sept. 7, 2023.
Perekhoda, Hanna, and Ilya Budraitskis “Resisting Russian Imperialism: 2 Socialists—a Ukrainian and a Russian—on Ukraine’s Struggle for Self-Determination,” The Nation, Sept. 7, 2023.
Perekhoda, Hanna; Ilya Budraitskis; and Denys Bondar, “Resisting Russian Imperialism: Ukraine’s Struggle for Self Determination,” streaming video, New York City leg of speaking tour, Sept. 9, 2023.
Shalom, Stephen R., and Dan La Botz, “What Are the Lessons of Vietnam for Ukraine Today,” Foreign Policy in Focus, Jan. 23, 2023.
Yurchenko, Yuliya, “From Ukraine’s independence to Russia’s invasion,” Green Left, Feb. 3, 2023.
Longer List of Recommended Resources on the War in Ukraine
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Recommended movies on the war in Ukraine.
News Sources
We find these to be informative and reliable sources for daily news and analysis without necessarily supporting their editorial viewpoints.
Ukrainian Sources:
Commons, left-wing Ukrainian journal of social criticism
Kyiv Post, https://www.kyivpost.com — Ukraine’s most prominent English-language newspaper since 1995.
Kyiv Independent, https://kyivindependent.com — English-language Ukrainian online newspaper founded in November 2021 by former staff of the Kyiv Post
New Voice of Ukraine, https://english.nv.ua/ — Digital newspaper founded in the wake of the Revolution of Dignity revolution of 2014.
Euromaidan Press, https://euromaidanpress.com/ — Digital news aggregator founded in the wake of the Revolution of Dignity or Euromaidan revolution of 2014 focused on countering Russian propaganda.
Ukrainska Pravda, https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/ — Digital news since 2000, often upholding free speech against government pressure.
Hromadske, https://hromadske.ua/en — Ukrainian independent media since November 22, 2013 at the outset of the Revolution of Dignity
RFU News, https://www.youtube.com/@RFU/videos — A Ukrainian military analyst provides daily battlefield updates.
Ukraine Without Hype, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqAUk2oJ9jvb-QcoOoPaiIw and on most major podcast platforms — Podcast from progressive Ukrainian journalists Anthony Bartaway and Romeo Kokriatski that brings on-the-ground news and analysis on a bi-weekly basis.
International Sources:
Posle, a progressive Russian website of anti-war analysis.
Ukraine: The Latest, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/02/russia-ukraine-war-listen-daily-podcast/ and on most major podcast platforms — Daily on weekdays podcast on the war and diplomacy produced by the British newspaper, The Telegraph.
Denys Davydov, Update from Ukraine, https://www.youtube.com/@DenysDavydov/videos, https://t.me/s/pilotblog — Daily updates on YouTube and Telegram on military and political aspects of the war.
Phillips’s Newsletter, https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/ — Phillips P. O’Brien is an American historian and professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland posting frequent newsletters on the military and political aspects of the war in Ukraine from a pro-Ukrainian perspective.
Institute for the Study of War, https://understandingwar.org/analysis/russia-ukraine/ — Reliable documentation on the military status of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, including a daily Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, biweekly Russia Occupation upstates, and regular special reports.
Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGeQKoGUstRDKNEs656pLBQnNH-OQg9xS, https://open.spotify.com/show/7IvFCFa7PSlWQvz6agXzn8 — Frequent Times Radio podcasts and YouTube videos on the war and diplomacy produced by the British newspaper, The Times of London.
Perun, https://www.youtube.com/@PerunAU — Australian military analyst’s presentations on the Ukraine war.
Military and History, https://www.youtube.com/@militaryandhistory — German military historian’s analyses of the Ukraine war.
Jake Broe, https://www.youtube.com/c/JakeBroe/videos — US Air Force veteran posting frequently on the war from a pro-Ukrainian perspective.
US Combat Veteran Reacts, https://www.youtube.com/@CombatVeteranReacts/videos — US Army veteran posting daily on the war from a pro-Ukrainian perspective.
UKR-TAZ – A Ukrainian Temporary Autonomous Zone — A blog curated by Adrian Ivakhiv supporting Ukrainian self-determination from an anarchist perspective since the 2013-2014 Revolution of Dignity.
Other Extensive Collections of Resources, Regularly Updated
Ongerth, Steve, “Compendium and Syllabus of non-Campist (mostly) Left Sources on the War in Ukraine.”
United for Peace and Justice, “The Ukraine crisis: commentary, responses, and background.”
European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine.
Balkan Witness, “The Ukraine War: Misperceptions on the Left.”
Links to Other Solidarity Organizations
Ukrainian Progressive Organizations
Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement), democratic socialist organization: https://rev.org.ua/, https://www.facebook.com/social.ruh,
Solidarity Collectives, anti-authoritarian network supporting the resistance to the Russian invasion: https://www.solidaritycollectives.org/en/, https://www.facebook.com/SolidarityCollectives/
Green Party of Ukraine: https://www.facebook.com/GreenPartyofUkraine/
Social Democratic Platform, https://sdplatform.org.ua/main/en
Pryama Diya (Direct Action), leftwing student trade union, https://www.facebook.com/priama.diia, http://direct-action.org.ua
Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (FPU): https://www.fpsu.org.ua, https://www.facebook.com/fpsu55/, https://x.com/of_unions
Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU): https://kvpu.org.ua/, https://kvpu.org.ua/en/home/
Razom We Stand, campaign for fossil fuel sanctions on Russia and rebuilding Ukraine around renewables, https://razomwestand.com/
International Solidarity Organizations
European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine
Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (U.K.)
Feminist Anti-War Resistance — Russian feminists against occupation and war, https://www.facebook.com/feministantiwarresistance
American Ukraine Committee and American Ukraine PAC — Ukrainian Americans doing grassroots advocacy and direct engagement with Congress in support of Ukraine, https://www.amukr.org/#/1/
Ukrainian Congress Committee of America — umbrella organization of Ukrainian diaspora in the US, https://ucca.org/
American Coalition for Ukraine — Ukrainian diaspora activists, https://americancoalitionforukraine.org
American Veterans for Ukraine — https://americanveteransforukraine.org
B4Ukraine, or Business for Ukraine — global coalition of civil society organizations for economic sanctions on Russia, https://b4ukraine.org/about
Razom for Ukrainę — Ukrainian American organization providing humanitarian and political support for Ukraine, https://www.razomforukraine.org/
Ukraine Information Group — UK-based labor-oriented group producing a weekly Ukraine solidarity news bulletin, https://ukraine-solidarity.org
Ukrainian American Freedom Foundation — New York City and Buffalo based Ukrainian American organization for education, advocacy, and humanitarian aid, https://uaff.org/updates/