The Kherson Counteroffensive & Ukrainian Grand Strategy (with Mykola Bielieskov)
Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia learn from Mykola Bielieskov, Senior Analyst for Ukrainian NGO "Come Back Alive" which provides support for Ukraine's military, about the strategy of Ukraine's long-anticip...
6 Sep 202241min
Reflections after Ukrainian Independence Day
In the wake of Ukrainian Independence Day, Giselle and Iulia reflect on the past six months of the war and what developments could come in the winter and spring from the Russian and Ukrainian militari...
26 Aug 202243min
The Samizdat Mechanism vs. Russian Propaganda (with Yevgeny Simkin)
Giselle and Iulia are joined by Yevgeny Simkin, co-founder of "Samizdat Online", an organization which aims to gather all voices of the world that suffer under autocratic repression and reunite those ...
19 Aug 202236min
Zeitenwende and the German Zeitgeist (with Dr. Ulrike Franke)
Dr. Ulrike Franke, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, joins The Eastern Front to unpack Germany's support of Ukraine, its more controversial foreign policies, and Germa...
15 Aug 202249min
Seeing Holodomor in Russia's War against Ukraine (with Benjamin Wittes)
Giselle, Iulia, and Dalibor are joined by Benjamin Wittes from AEI's next-door-neighbor, The Brookings Institution, where he is a Senior Fellow for Governance Studies and Editor-in-Chief of Lawfare. B...
8 Aug 202246min
Entering the War's New Phase
Giselle, Iulia, and Dalibor anticipate the new phase of the war in Ukraine. Giselle provides a breakdown of the Ukrainian military's long-anticipated counter offensive in the Kherson Oblast - the "nex...
1 Aug 202239min
Making the Modern Ukrainian Identity (with Catarina Buchatskiy)
Giselle, Iulia, and Dalibor are joined on today's episode by The Eastern Front's youngest guest to date: Catarina "Cat" Buchatskiy, co-founder of The Shadows Project and a Foreign & Defense Policy int...
27 Jul 202240min
Update #7 on the War in Ukraine (with Fred Kagan)
The Eastern Front welcomes back special guest and friend, Fred Kagan, Senior Fellow and Director of the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute, for another update on the war in ...
22 Jul 202242min
