Kate Tsurkan
News editor
Kate Tsurkan is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. She is a writer, editor, and translator. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harpers, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. Sh…
Politico reported[1] on June 9 that several anonymous French officials confirmed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Polish President Andrzej Duda were expected in Paris on June 12 to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron and discuss security…
Kate Tsurkan
News editor
Kate Tsurkan is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. She is a writer, editor, and translator. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harpers, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. Sh…
Ten thousand hectares of arable land on the right bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast are expected to be flooded after the disaster at the Kakhovka dam on June 6, the Agriculture Ministry reported[1] on June 7.According to the Agriculture…
Strategic Industries Minister Oleksandr Kamyshin reported[1] on June 7 that 65% of recently-surveyed bomb shelters in Kyiv are technically suitable for use and that the results of the audit are discouraging.The audit was prompted after two women…
The Infrastructure Ministry reported[1] on June 7 that it had allocated Hr 1.5 billion ($40 million) for the construction of water pipelines in Kherson Oblast and other parts of southern Ukraine to restore centralized water supply to areas impac…
Kate Tsurkan
News editor
Kate Tsurkan is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. She is a writer, editor, and translator. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harpers, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. Sh…
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said[1] on June 7 that U.K. military and intelligence agencies were looking into the destruction of the Kakhovka dam and that it would represent “a new low” for Russian aggression against Ukraine if the Kremlin is…
Engineering and munitions experts point to a deliberate explosion as the most logical reason behind the Kakhovka dam explosion, the New York Times reported[1] on June 7.A mass humanitarian and ecological disaster unfolded after the Kakhovka dam …
Kate Tsurkan
News editor
Kate Tsurkan is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. She is a writer, editor, and translator. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harpers, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. Sh…