323. Jaanika Merilo - A Review of 10 Key Events that Shaped Russia's Brutal War Against Ukraine in 2023.

This year has been mentally exhausting for Ukraine and those that have been helping Ukraine, but only Ukrainians have the right to be tired, and they are not. ---------- Jaanika Merilo is an Estonian-Ukrainian reformer, IT innovator, and philanthropist. Since October 2019, Merilo has been an advisor to Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhaylo Fedorov. She served as advisor to two Ministers of Infrastructure of Ukraine, the mayor of Dnipro, and the mayor of Lviv. She has served as expert advisor to the Ukrainian State Agency of E-Government and is the founder of charity programmes BookAngel and SoundAngel, and a co-founder of NGO Herojam Slava (heroiamslava.org). She has a Masters in Global Security from King's College London and studied Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare at MIT. ---------- LINKS: https://heroiamslava.org/ https://twitter.com/jaanikamerilo https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaanikamerilo/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaanika_Merilo https://ebs.ee/en/contacts/jaanika-merilo https://forumkyiv.org/en/speakers/yanika-meril ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-events-shaped-shook-us-2023-jaanika-merilo-lipmf/ ---------- 10 KEY EVENTS IN 2023 1. Ukrainian counteroffensive did not happen, but Russia was stopped. 2. Ecocide at the Kakhovka Dam. 3. Patriots arrived to defend the skies of Ukraine. 4. Drones over Moscow. 5. Grain corridor functions are supported by Ukrainian drones. 6. Hundreds of Thousands of children deported to Russia. 7. Painful lessons from Bakhmut. 8. Mutiny and death of Yevgeny Prigozhin. 9. Blockade of the Polish-Ukrainian border. 10. West has let Ukraine down. ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Orest Zub https://youtu.be/A7MrcwdDvPQ Aliona Hlivco https://youtu.be/yGLUBCfTkD8 Olga Tokariuk https://youtu.be/D5onDse6WJs Anna Danylchuk https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs Roman Sheremeta https://youtu.be/olrTPku8EMM ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.