Kyiv stands firm, in the third year of the war. Our trip to Ukraine is now over. ALL INTERVIEWS RECORDED and they’ve started appearing on the channel. Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen - your generosity meant we could film everything that we planned. We hope these materials will have an impact in helping to tell Ukraine's story, and generate support for its cause. Everything will be published free on Silicon Curtain throughout February. We are still a little way off the funding tar...
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr 31 min•Season 4Ep. 631
1993 - Born in Lviv, Ukraine - Artist, illustrator, Doctor of PhilosophyThe primary media are easel graphics, mural art, digital art, and multimedia installation. Since February 24, 2022, Mykhailo has created military posters supporting Ukraine and volunteers. He believes in the power of visual signs because they can ignore geographical and language barriers, making their way straight to the human heart.----------LINKS:https://neivanmade.com/https://www.instagram.com/neivanmade/?hl=enhttps://x.c...
Feb 24, 2025•34 min•Season 4Ep. 602
Journalist Jenny Klochko talks to Ukrainian people who carry on with their lives under the daily shelling. They joke, dance ballet, paint the pictures, make films, and support their Armed Forces. Because life is stronger than war.Ukraine in its fight for existence gained international support and these people admire Ukrainian bravery and the spirit of this country.The interviews on this channel will help you to understand more about Ukraine, people who support it, more than you can see in the da...
Feb 23, 2025•43 min•Season 4Ep. 590
Edition No101 | 23-02-2025 - It’s been a week that has upended the foreign policy world and seen an acceleration towards what some of us have suspected for several years – that the old post WW2 international order is dead. It’s norms and stability only live one as a zombie concept in the minds of the myopic and timid class of managers that lead us, and who cannot imagine such a scenario or what must replace it. Not only that, but the gamekeeper has turned poacher, as the US seeks to align itself...
Feb 23, 2025•17 min
Edition No100 | 21-02-2025 - Scholz says Trump's comments about Zelenskyy 'wrong and dangerous'. Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz said it was “wrong and dangerous” of US president Donald Trumpto call Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator”.“It is simply wrong and dangerous to deny President Zelenskyy his democratic legitimacy,” Scholz said in quotes carried by the German newspaper Spiegel.What is correct is that Zelenskyy is the elected head of state of Ukraine … The fact that proper e...
Feb 21, 2025•17 min
Alya Shandra is Editor-in-chief at Euro Maidan Press. She has a background in environmental science and NGOs. During the Euromaidan revolution Alya Shandra launched an indy-media outlet called Euromaidan Press, and that project was fueled by her interest in how to help Ukraine permanently move beyond being a post-communist post-colony country and evolve into becoming a free and democratic society that tackles corruption and nepotism.----------LINKS:The Surkov report: https://euromaidanpress.com/...
Feb 21, 2025•35 min•Season 4Ep. 630
Edition No99 | 20-02-2025 - Bad information. Bad preparation. Bad intent. Not grounded or limited by values.o We have been deceived and swindled. Trade imbalance. Bad deals. o Everything that is the US’s is by extension mine. All the slights mine too. o Relationships are all transactional, monetary in nature, and short-term. o See alliances through the lens of immediate quid pro quo.o ‘Bad deals made by Biden’ need to be repaid and allies squeezed for money. - Two points of view on the war: o Pr...
Feb 20, 2025•32 min
Timothy Ash, who has been professional economist for more than 30 years, with two thirds of that in the banking industry. Timothy’s specialism is emerging European economics, and he writes and blogs extensively on economic challenges for leading publications such as the Kyiv Post, Atlantic Council, the Financial Times, and the United Business Journal. He is also an Associate Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House and has advised various governments on Ukraine-Russia policy a...
Feb 20, 2025•33 min•Season 4Ep. 629
Edition No98 | 18-02-2025 - After the meeting between Russia and the US, questions but with few answers. QUESTION: Can you take us a little bit in the room today? What was the interaction like? How would you characterize the discussions? MR WITKOFF: It was positive, upbeat, constructive, everybody there to get to the right outcome, solution based. We discussed it afterwards. We couldn’t have imagined a better result after this session. It was very, very solid.Matthew Miller @matthewamillerNegoti...
Feb 18, 2025•18 min
Ben Hodges is a retired United States Army officer, who became commander of United States Army Europe in November 2014, and held that position for three years until retiring from the United States Army in January 2018. Until recently he was the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, specialising in NATO, Transatlantic relationship and international security. ----------Over the past week, Russia sent 1,220 glide bombs, 40 missiles and more than 850 drones...
Feb 17, 2025•44 min•Season 4Ep. 628
Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger Ailes, but Lindsley escaped that frenzied world where power mattered more than truth. He came to Lviv for a Ukrainian Catholic University journalism conference on Information Overload, AI, and Responsibility. Then the Coronavirus shut down world travel, and he stayed to build a better vision for the m...
Feb 16, 2025•41 min•Season 4Ep. 627
Edition No97 | 15-02-2025 - Europe’s new Munich moment happened on the eve of the Munich Security Conference. And it was at this event in 2007, 18 years ago, that Vladimir Putin announced his intention to create a new security architecture for Europe – a new world order in fact. He was ignored, and Europe was presumed to be secure. The aggressor was appeased, and his lawless aggression normalised. We carried on growing fat, rich and ignoring the echoes from history. ----------Here we are. A seam...
Feb 15, 2025•38 min
David Satter is a journalist and historian with unique insights into how the deformation and repression of the past, is having terrible consequences for present day Russia. David has written extensively about Russia and the Soviet Union, especially the decline and fall of the USSR and rise of post-Soviet Russia. David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War in December 2013. This was perhaps not a surprising move, given that his books have covere...
Feb 15, 2025•56 min•Season 4Ep. 623
Edition No96 | 14-02-2025 - Last night Russia struck the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, causing serious damage to the protective shielding. There is an almost zero possibility this was an accident, or not explicitly ordered by Vladimir Putin. It’s a signal. It’s a show of force and contempt for Western ‘peace-making’, or what he sees as weakness and capitulation. ----------We ran two events in Ukraine in the last two weeks. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August...
Feb 14, 2025•20 min
Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN 10 Events in 10 months - Advocacy for a Ukra...
Feb 14, 2025•52 min•Season 4Ep. 626
GUEST: Vlad Vexler, Social Philosopher, and popular YouTuber.If Putin's aggression towards Ukraine, Europe and NATO members is Relentless, then what should our strategy towards it be, to guarantee the future security and prosperity of Europe?----------It’s my pleasure today to welcome back onto the channel Vlad Vexler, Social Philosopher, and unique YouTuber. Our previous three video conversations proved to be extremely popular, and a lot has happened since we last spoke. Please do check out Vla...
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 625
Jason Jay Smart is a political adviser who has lived and worked in Ukraine, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Latin America. Due to his work with the democratic opposition to Vladimir Putin, Smart was made persona non grata for life by Russia in 2010. Jason is a Special Correspondent at the Kyiv Post. It’s the state of US support for Ukraine that we will discuss today.----------LINKS:https://jasonjaysmart.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/5 https://americanpoliticalservices.com/ht...
Feb 12, 2025•38 min•Season 4Ep. 624
Andrew Chakhoyan is a Ukrainian American based in the Netherlands and is a vocal and articulate champion of Ukraine and its cause. ----------LINKS:https://x.com/ChakhoyanAndrewhttps://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/andrew-chakhoyan/https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-incrementalism-russia-war-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-truth/ ----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN 10 Events in 10 months - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtainhttps://buymeacoffee.com/si...
Feb 12, 2025•46 min•Season 4Ep. 617
David DeBatto is host of the ‘No Delusion Zone’ podcast @NoDelusionZone He is a retired U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent, a geopolitical analyst, writer, and podcaster. David is an Iraq war veteran who served as Team Leader of a Tactical Human Intelligence Team (THT) in operations within Iraq and is also a former police officer. David is considered too conservative for the progressive left and too independent minded for the radical right and seeks to challenge political dogma and the ...
Feb 11, 2025•39 min•Season 4Ep. 622
Kyiv stands firm, in the third year of the war. Our trip to Ukraine is now over. ALL INTERVIEWS RECORDED and they’ve started appearing on the channel. Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen - your generosity meant we could film everything that we planned. We hope these materials will have an impact in helping to tell Ukraine's story, and generate support for its cause. Everything will be published free on Silicon Curtain throughout February. We are still a little way off the funding tar...
Feb 11, 2025•2 hr•Season 4Ep. 623
Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger Ailes, but Lindsley escaped that frenzied world where power mattered more than truth. He came to Lviv for a Ukrainian Catholic University journalism conference on Information Overload, AI, and Responsibility. Then the Coronavirus shut down world travel, and he stayed to build a better vision for the m...
Feb 11, 2025•58 min•Season 4Ep. 621
Edition No95 | 10-02-2025 - Careless smokers have apparently caused extensive damage to Russian strategic infrastructure, fuel refineries and military complexes. Those damned smokers. If this was a real issue, then Russia would ban all smoking in public, and maybe even the sale of tobacco. Are we seeing a new manifestation of the careless smoker epidemic? ----------We ran two events in Ukraine in the last two weeks. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and ...
Feb 11, 2025•7 min
Edition No94 | 09-02-2025 - Ukraine has demonstrated there is only one class of sanctions that it can reply upon; exercise some control over and does not have to beg allies to enforce. A class of sanctions that has no loopholes, and no get-out clauses. Which allies will not find some route to circumvent, no and where no third country that can intercede as a middleman for the Kremlin. That sanction is the destruction of Russia’s energy infrastructure, including gas processing as supply routes as ...
Feb 09, 2025•13 min
SEE VIDEO ALSO AT: https://youtu.be/EGFYmln-L4sAn Emotional Ukrainian - format with Lesia Dubenko - Episode 4 - 2025-02-05USAid is shut down by Musk and his team - Dismantling American Soft Power ----------Lesia Dubenko is a Ukrainian journalist and analyst featured in the Financial Times, Politico Europe, New Eastern Europe, Washington Times, and more. She’s currently affiliated with Ukraine’s media outlet Euromaidan Press. You can follow her on Substack for a dose of good and satirical comment...
Feb 08, 2025•59 min•Season 4Ep. 616
Zarina Zabrisky is an American writer based in the Bay Area, California. She is the author of the novel, We, Monsters, several collections of short stories, including Explosion, A Cute Tombstone and her debut work, Iron, and a book of collaborative poetry and art, Green Lions, co-written with Simon Rogghe. Zabrisky is currently based in Odesa, Ukraine. From the beginning of the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Zabrisky has been reporting on the war in Ukraine for Euromaidan Press, By...
Feb 08, 2025•44 min•Season 4Ep. 603
Edition No93 | 07-02-2025 - Ukraine has struck again in the Kursk direction, advancing up to 6km it is claimed. Russian reports described being struck ‘Like a Bolt from the Blue’, raising the question of preparedness of Russian troops and lack of effective monitoring of Ukrainian preparations. So far, the only information we have is from Russian Mil bloggers, and Z-patriots, so we need to be cautious about the details, as the Ukrainian side is observing tight operational silence. According to th...
Feb 07, 2025•14 min
Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her videos, in a clear and honest way.----------LINKS: @AnnafromUkraine https://www.buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraineMy interview with Anna in Lviv - hosted on he...
Feb 07, 2025•31 min•Season 4Ep. 620
Edition No92 | 06-02-2025 - North Koreans may have pulled out of front line. At least this is the claim coming from officials in Ukraine. Ukrainian special forces fighting in the Kursk region, which is where Koreans are thought to be concentrated, told the BBC they have not seen any North Korean troops there for the past three weeks. Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SOF) spokesperson, Colonel Oleksandr Kindratenko, said it was likely they had pulled out after suffering heavy losses. So just ...
Feb 06, 2025•9 min
Volodymyr Yermolenko is President of PEN Ukraine, the writers Union, and Chief Editor of Ukraine World. He is one of Ukraine’s leading cultural and intellectual figures, a philosopher, essayist, translator, Doctor of Political Studies, candidate of philosophical sciences, and senior lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. It is a great privilege to be in conversation, especially here in Kyiv. In this discussion, Yermolenko unpacks the complexities of Ukrainian identity, the historical context of Ru...
Feb 06, 2025•1 hr 37 min•Season 4Ep. 619
Interview with Ingvald, member of the “BIRDS OF FURY” unit of the Ukrainian armed forces. A unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that uses the «Backfire» unmanned aerial vehicle system which has been specially designed to destroy enemy forces and equipment. This drone can fly far beyond the front line, venting our fury on the enemy, and return home to pick up a new payload. The «Backfire» is immune to enemy radio electronic countermeasures, and like us, is ready to unleash its rightful rage again...
Feb 05, 2025•29 min•Season 4Ep. 612
