Voices of Ukraine

A podcast from Columbia University’s Harriman Institute. Hear stories of lives upended by Russia’s war on Ukraine.

27 Apr 20222min

Peter Zalmayev grew up in Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine and immigrated to the United States, where he got citizenship. His parents stayed in Ukraine and, in 2014, after Russia invaded Donbas, he had to e...

21 Apr 202216min

After Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian scholar Antonina Berezovenko stayed in Kyiv in spite of the constant shelling. She is one of the few people left in her building, sheltering in the basement dur...

14 Apr 202213min

Mariya Chukhnova was born in Lutsk in Western Ukraine in the late 1980s. She participated in the Orange Revolution while she was in college. Then, like many Ukrainians of her generation, she ended up ...

7 Apr 202218min

Serhii Tereshchenko, a Columbia University doctoral student, was working on his dissertation in Kyiv and planning to get married when Russia invaded Ukraine. On his scheduled wedding day, he evacuated...

31 Mar 202220min