In this episode, we celebrate Labor Day by speaking with returning guest Vladyslav Starodubtsev about the history of International Worker's Day in Ukraine and the world, along with the state of labor rights in Ukraine at present. Vladyslav is a leftist and labor organizer in Ukraine including with Sotsіalniy Rukh. Twitter Vladyslav: @VlStarodubtsev Anthony: @Bartaway Romeo: @RomeoKokriatski Ukraine Without Hype: @HypeUkraine Patreon https://www.patreon.com/UkraineWithoutHype Resources and Charit...
May 02, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 79
In this episode... 01:00 - Russian missile attacks on Kharkiv and the seaside promenade in Odesa 06:44 - Russian army makes worrisome advances north of Avdiivka 14:00 - US House of Representatives finally votes for Ukraine aid, reportedly after targeted and intensive lobbying stressing the plight of Ukrainian Protestants under occupation. 33:55 - Prominent deaths on either side of the line highlight the differences in the quality of people involved. Twitter Anthony: @Bartaway Romeo: @RomeoKokria...
Apr 30, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 78
In this episode, we sit down with retired Congressman David Bonior, former Representative for the northern suburbs of Detroit and Democratic Party Whip from 1991-2002. David worked to shift US policy in favor of independent Ukraine in the collapse of the Soviet Union and has advocated for the country ever since. We talk about the political fight in Congress, the Ukrainian-American diaspora, and his current mission in the country. But first, some updates about Chasiv Yar, missile strikes, mobiliz...
Apr 17, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 77
In this episode... 0:53 - Combat Update: Kharkiv hit heavily by Russian bombs, Chasiv Yar shaping to be the next big battle 9:05 - Mobilization age lowered to 25 14:05 - Russian citizens in the Ukrainian military 22:00 - Russian military recruitment around the world, the hows and whys 51:22 - Russian Orthodox Church declaration of Holy War...and anti-urbanism Links https://youtu.be/OJBnIRLYLZk?si=dbYgifdM2MEAgyBt Twitter Anthony: @Bartaway Romeo: @RomeoKokriatski Ukraine Without Hype: @HypeUkrai...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 76
In this episode... 00:55 - Announcement: New documentary from the Kyiv Independent 01:50 - Reflections on the Kyiv Security Forum 06:57 - Combat Update: Raids into Russian territory lasting a very long time 12:30 - Russia launches a heavy nightly missile campaign against energy infrastructure and civilian homes. I go to the scene of a destroyed Art Academy 29:31 - Ukrainians made to vote in Russian "elections" 31:13 - ISIS attack on Moscow suburb 49:40 - 20 Days in Mariupol is the first Ukrainia...
Mar 29, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 75
In this episode... We interview Ivan Zharkov, a participant in the Revolution of Dignity who enlisted to defend Ukraine in the first days of Russia's full-scale invasion. He talks about his experiences in the Battles of Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Bakhmut, especially as the leader of a medical unit. Links https://english.nv.ua/opinion/what-price-victory-opinion-50396884.html Twitter Anthony: @Bartaway Romeo: @RomeoKokriatski Ukraine Without Hype: @HypeUkraine Patreon https://www.patreon.com/UkraineWithou...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 74
In this episode... 01:00 - Another Russian ship destroyed; Russia advances in the outskirts of Avdiivka 03:24 - Czech-led artillery shell supply getting ready for shipment to Ukraine 06:27 - German Chancellor Scholz says dumb things 10:41 - French President Macron gets a whole lot more assertive, threatens French involvement in war 19:00 - Sweden joins NATO 22:38 - Polish "farmer" protest worsens 27:27 - Russia nearly kills the Prime Minster of Greece 31:17 - Russia threatens Moldova over Transn...
Mar 08, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 73
In this episode... 01:09 - The fall of the hero-city of Avdiivka. The city is no more. 12:04 - Remembering 10 years of Revolution and War, and 2 Years of the full-scale invasion 14:30 - The Polish farmer blockade of the border reaches grotesque new heights 22:25 - The complicated legacy of Alexei Navalny, who was killed in Russian prison 36:41 - Tucker Carlson, crass Russian propagandist, amazed by shopping carts Links https://english.nv.ua/opinion/tucker-carlson-interview-with-vladimir-putin-co...
Feb 23, 2024•45 min
In this episode... 00:01:15 - Ukraine destroys two more ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet using naval drones 00:04:02 - Russia makes breakthroughs in Avdiivka, putting the defense of the city at critical risk 00:12:18 - Republican blocking of Ukraine aid leaves Ukrainian Armed Forces ammunition starved 00:23:39 - Tucker Carlson interviews Putin, old man yells at clouds 00:42:00 - Zelensky does personnel shakeup of Ukraine's top brass, replaces Zaluzhnyi 00:51:38 - Zelensky passes a decree on ...
Feb 14, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Once upon a time, Ukraine Without Hype liked to do episodes that were biographies of some of Ukraine's various baddies. The Russian buildup and then the full-scale invasion created different priorities. In this episode, we look at the subjects of these exposés and ask Where Are They Now? 00:02:42 - Pavlo Vovk 00:12:50 - Ilya Kyva 00:29:00 - Viktor Medvedchuk 00:48:00 - Dmytro Firtash 01:05:44 - Arsen Avakov 01:20:35 - Conclusions Twitter Anthony: @Bartaway Romeo: @RomeoKokriatski Ukraine Without...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 70
In this episode: 01:00 - Quick updates on Russian missile attacks, Russia freezing, and the end of the holiday season 09:00 - Combat Update - Little movement on the front line, Ukraine shoots down Russian A-50, Russian electronic warfare in the Baltic Sea 17:05 - House Republicans claim they will block Ukraine aid for the next year 24:17 - The death of the sexual assault coach turned Russian spy Gonzalo Lira 32:25 - Headline Story - Extremely unpopular reforms to the mobilization system flounder...
Jan 19, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Anthony and Romeo reflect on the biggest news stories of 2023, from the Battle of Bakhmut to the Kherson flood to Avdiivka. What went right, what went wrong, and what was unexpected? Then, we take what we learned from the year to guess what may happen next year, a year of grinding attrition warfare and an ever-more vital fight for support. Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XQxveVhfuI&ab_channel=KyivIndependent Twitter Anthony: @Bartaway Romeo: @RomeoKokriatski Ukraine Without Hype: @Hyp...
Dec 31, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 68
In this episode... 2:50 - In the Combat Update, Ukrainian defenders continue to hold Avdiivka, Russia pushes through the divided city of Marinka, and the ZSU consolidates gains on the Left Bank of the Dnipro near Kherson 10:07 - The collaborator Ilya Kyva is assassinated near Moscow by the SBU. 13:37 - House Republicans stonewall Ukraine aid funding until next year with a list of demands. 19:54 - Hungary steps aside to allow Ukraine to enter EU accession negotiations but blocks aid funding. 25:2...
Dec 21, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 67
In this episodes... 02:30 - The Kyiv Independent releases a new documentary (which I narrated) on the torture of Ukrainian POWs in Russian custody 03:41 - In the Start of Winter, a huge storm hits the Black Sea while Russia ups its drone attacks on Kyiv in the early phases of an expected winter campaign against energy infrastructure. 10:03 - Putin gives a speech reaffirming his maximalist goals of reforging the Russian Empire while the Russian Supreme Court declares LGBT people to be extremists ...
Nov 30, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Olga Tokariuk is a Ukrainian journalist and Chatham Fellow who was there when the history of Ukraine - and the world - changed forever on the night of November 21, 2013. Former President Yanukovych had gone back on his promises of European Association, and fully chose Russia. What followed was protests turned into Revolution, and Revolution turned into a war to defend the very existence of the Ukrainian people. We look back at that time 10 years ago, and what it means now. Olga's Links Twitter: ...
Nov 24, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 65
In this episode... 00:01:11 - Combat update - Avdiivka will be the focal point of the war for at least the rest of the year. 00:07:26 - General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander in Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, writes an article in the Economist about what Ukraine needs to break out of attritional "positional" war. 00:27:11 - Russian soldiers slaughter a family for not giving up their home. 00:30:50 - A pogrom at an airport in Dagestan shows where the Russian government would prefer internal f...
Nov 18, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Some outside pressure is asking why Ukraine won't be having wartime elections. We start by going over why that would be impossible, then dig deeper into Ukrainian electoral politics and would would come of an election. 00:01:24 - Holding elections in Ukraine would be illegal, dangerous, and logistically insurmountable. 00:14:53 - A pretty confusing bill is in the works to allow for elections anyway. 00:30:51 - Ukrainian civics lesson 101 00:37:43 - What are Ukraine's political parties? 00:56:08 ...
Nov 04, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 63
In this episode... 00:42 - Anthony recounts a reporting trip to Kharkiv and back to the former Kakhovka Reservoir 07:42 - Russia launches a massive assault on Avdiivka, and takes massive casualties in the process. Meanwhile, Ukraine launched a large but secretive incursion across the Dnipro River. 22:12 - The newly arrived ATACMS missiles from the US devastate Russia's helicopter fleet stationed at Berdyansk, but they still aren't quite what was wanted. 26:43 - The trial of five police officers ...
Oct 25, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 61
We are joined by Joey Ayoub, PhD, host of The Fire These Times, about the recent massacre by Hamas in southern Israel and Israel's subsequent retaliation against Gaza's civilian population. The ferocity of Hamas' attack was unprecedented, but so was the systemic weakness and dysfunction of the Israeli state. Why did it happen, and is there any solution to Israel's ongoing siege of Gaza? Joey Ayoub's Links https://thefirethesetimes.com/ https://www.patreon.com/firethesetimes https://twitter.com/F...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 61
In this episode... 00:49 - Russia hits a grocery store and cafe holding a wake for a deceased community member in a village in Kharkiv region, killing over 50 people. 03:15 - Ukraine advances beyond the second line of defenses in the Tokmak direction 05:17 - After heavy attacks on the Russian Black Sea Fleet, including its headquarters in Sevastopol, the Russian Navy retreated away from Crimea to other Black Sea ports. This opened up trade lanes out of Odesa, which are once again in use. 15:06 -...
Oct 05, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 60
In this episode... 00:01:20 - Visiting a Hungarian-speaking town in the Zakarpattia region 00:18:40 - The anniversary of the assassination of Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze in 2000, and how the protest movement against it helped form Ukraine's democratic path. 00:33:11 - A trade dispute over agricultural goods stirs diplomatic row between Poland and Ukraine. 00:41:48 - Azerbaijan invades the Nagorno-Karabakh region to take full control of the area. News of war crimes by the Azerbaijani ar...
Sep 22, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 59
In this episode... 00:01:21 - Ukrainian forces begin to pierce Russia's second line of defense in the south, and retake positions near Donetsk city. 00:08:35 - Russia caught by the Cuban authorities illegally trafficking potential soldiers. 00:11:51 - Russia looks to North Korea as a source of arms. 00:16:10 - Russia holds elections, including in the occupied territories. 00:21:07 - Elon Musk interfered with a Ukrainian operation to sink the Russian Black Sea Fleet by cutting off the attack dron...
Sep 11, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 58
In this episode... 00:01:16 - Despite naysaying in the Western press, the Southern offensive makes a major breakthrough by taking Robotyne and pushing forward. 00:25:32 - How Ukraine, the country that barely has a navy, is taking the fight to the Russians in the Black Sea and Dnipro River 00:43:00 - Three Ukrainian pilots die in a training accident, including the famous ace known as "Juice" 00:47:20 - Anti-corruption news: The heads of all recruitment offices are sacked after discovering widespr...
Aug 31, 2023•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 57
Anthony has returned from a reporting trip to the south of Ukraine and relays what he saw on the ground. 00:02:10 - Odesa's Transfiguration Cathedral was badly damaged by the recent Russia strike on the city landmark, but Odesa is undeterred from the August vacation season. 00:19:05 - We had a bit of an adventure with the Transnistria border and a drunk, possibly, maybe marijuana farmer, but saw the very apparent reforms in the State Border Service. 00:38:14 - Returning to Mykolaiv, a city bounc...
Aug 19, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 56
In this episode... 00:00:36 - Announcements; join our Discord 00:02:44 - Russian counterattack thwarted in the Luhansk Oblast while progress continues in the south and Bakhmut 00:11:20 - Russia cancels grain deal, then bombs Odesa city center and port infrastructure 00:25:44 - The Ballad of Igor Girkin, the Forrest Gump of Russian Imperialism. One of the men most personally responsible for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He is now under arrest in Russia for something other than his actual crime...
Jul 31, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 55
In this episode... 01:30 - Ukrainian army attacks the first line of Russian defense in the south while making gains around Bakhmut. Meanwhile, deep attacks take down the Crimean Bridge and an assassination of a Russian submarine commander. 13:30 - An update on the after-effects of the Wagner Coup attempt 20:30 - The NATO Summit in Vilnius proves to be disappointing. 27:00 - Zelensky clashes with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev 30:00 - Zelensky's visit to Poland looks to mend old wounds. 38:30 - ...
Jul 17, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 54
In this episode... 00:50 - The Ukrainian counteroffensive lurches forward across the front lines 07:23 - Wagner Group and its leader Yevgeniy Prigozhin launch a day-long uprising against the Russian government. What happened? Why? What now? 41:15 - A locked Kyiv bomb shelter leads to the death of a mother and child. 45:00 - Russian targets a restaurant in Kramatorsk used as a hub for journalists and aid workers. 48:00 - The legal system finally answers the question "Who ordered Katya Handzyuk?" ...
Jun 30, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Following the Russian destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Dam in the Kherson region, the area downstream was flooded, causing a massive amount of destruction. Anthony went to the city to cover the aid efforts in a city in which he has memories of a better time. While there, the Russians fired on a group of humanitarian aid workers Anthony was helping and reporting on. One was wounded but is in stable condition. After that story, Anthony goes on a rant about the Internal Committee of the Re...
Jun 26, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Dylan Burns is a political streamer on YouTube and Twitch who has made multiple reporting trips to Ukraine. We talk about his coverage of demining efforts and other topics, what it means to be a political streamer with a younger audience who stepped into the world of journalism, and the controversial value of debating more Russia-friendly figures. Dylan Burn's Info https://www.dylanburns.tv/ https://www.youtube.com/@DylanBurnsLIVE https://twitter.com/DylanBurns1776 Twitter Anthony: @Bartaway Rom...
Jun 08, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 51
In this episode - 00:40 - What is it like to go through a mass suicide drone attack? 10:43 - Combat update: Ukraine continues to advance around Bakhmut, but major shifts are unlikely until the counter-offensive. They also continue to hit strategic Russian points. Meanwhile, Russia struggles to find a solution to re-do's of the Belgorod border raid. 18:00 - A tangent about the rise of Russian PMCs as an erosion of Russian state power. 22:27 - Armenia takes further steps to concede the Karabakh di...
May 31, 2023•46 min
