Anna Romandash

Multilingual Journo 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 Covering Ukraine I Podcaster/Producer I Author of Women of Ukraine I 🏆 from Council of Europe, Internews, & Hostwriter

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Minerals for Weapons: Is Ukraine Making a Deal with the United States on Its Own Terms?

3 weeks ago | cigionline.org | Anna Romandash

In May 2025, Ukraine and the United States signed a minerals deal. A first-of-its-kind agreement, it allows future revenues from the extraction of Ukraine’s critical minerals to be used to finance defense procurement. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine — the parliament — ratified the document on May 8 and a bilateral Joint Investment Fund for Reconstruction is expected to be created this year.
Anna Romandash Archives - New Eastern Europe

1 month ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Anna Romandash

Text resize: A A Change contrast Russian war on the environment: the Danube delta, Romania and Ukraine The environmental impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can be seen in many areas. This is clear with regards to the country’s coastline, where damage is now being countered by dedicated efforts at conservation and rewilding. Terms of Use | Cookie policy | Copyryight 2025 Kolegium Europy Wschodniej im. Jana Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego 31-153 Kraków Agencja digital: hauerpower studio krakow....
Human rights activism in Ukraine’s war-affected towns - opinion

2 months ago | english.nv.ua | Anna Romandash

28 April, 07:53 AM Yelyzaveta Otlivanna and her fellow activists in Karlivka, Poltava Oblast (Photo: Yelyzaveta Otlivanna / Anna Romandash) Inthe small town of Karlivka, located in northeastern Ukraine’s, YelyzavetaOtlivanna coordinates services for people with disabilities. Her work addresseslong-standing accessibility issues while responding to the increased needscaused by the full-scale Russian invasion.
Misinformation and smear attacks follow the freeze of USAID funding in the Western Balkans

Feb 25, 2025 | globalvoices.org | Eastern Europe |Daria Dergacheva |Anna Romandash

The pause in foreign aid imposed by the new US administration has adversely affected numerous civil society, human rights and independent media projects in the Western Balkans. While the exact number of affected organizations is hard to estimate, they range in the hundreds.
‘We were very wrong about Russia’: How the Gagauz people of Ukraine live

Feb 24, 2025 | globalvoices.org | Daria Dergacheva |Anna Romandash |Jean de Dieu SOVON

Independent Moldovan news outlet NewsMaker published an article about the Gagauz people, who live both in Moldova and Ukraine. Global Voices translated the article, edited for clarity, and republished it with permission from NewsMaker. How did the Gagauz people end up in Ukraine? At the beginning of the 19th century, Gagauz settlers from the Balkans established themselves in Budjak in the steppe region of southern Bessarabia.
Championing change: Ukrainian activist advocates for the rights of people with disabilities

Feb 21, 2025 | globalvoices.org | Anna Romandash

For over two decades, Valentyna Dobrydina has been an advocate for the rights of people with disabilities. She is a representative of the National Association of Persons with Disabilities of Ukraine, working in her native Chernivtsi region in the South-West of the country. Her work has taken on new urgency since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which has left an estimated 8 million people internally displaced, including a significant number of individuals with disabilities.
Championing change: Ukrainian activist advocates for the rights of people with disabilities

Feb 21, 2025 | tolerance.ca | Anna Romandash

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The constant evolution of Russia-Turkey relations

Aug 27, 2024 | manaramagazine.org | Anna Romandash

Turkey chose a middle ground when Russia launched its full-scale invasion against Ukraine in 2022. The Turkish government condemned the aggression and declared its support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity, but refused to apply any sanctions on Russia and welcomed thousands of Russian immigrants and businesses into its territory.
‘War or No War, We Have to Teach’

Jul 4, 2024 | tol.org | Anna Romandash

How two Ukrainian teachers devised new ways to keep their charges focused on learning amid the confusion and fear in the wake of the Russian invasion. Ukrainian journalist Anna Romandash’s book Women of Ukraine: Reportages from the War and Beyond, published in October 2023 by Ibidem, is a collection of more than 30 brief profiles based on interviews she conducted in the first year after Russia launched all-out war against Ukraine in February 2022.
I Survived for a Reason

Jul 4, 2024 | tol.org | Anna Romandash

A Ukrainian veteran who survived near-fatal wounds and captivity in 2014 talks about life, death, and justice amid the 10-year Russian war. “It is a miracle that I survived,” says Anna Ilyushchenkova. “A bullet passed through my lungs, and another went through my spine – not to mention a bullet in my liver. But fortunately, none hit an artery. “My leg was all torn, so the doctors thought about amputating it,” she goes on. “Luckily, that didn’t happen, and they managed to save it.