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3 weeks ago | 
wilsoncenter.org | Mykhailo Minakov |Mariia Shynkarenko |Katerina Sergatskova |Izabella Tabarovsky
March 16, 2025, marked eleven years since the disputed local referendum that Russia organized in 2014 to legitimize the annexation of Crimea. The outcome of the referendum was not recognized by the international community. The occupation of Crimea was followed by the outbreak of armed conflict in the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in April 2014 and paved the way to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Katerina Sergatskova |Diane Sylvester
Association Profile Posted Thursday, October 10, 2024 12:00 am There is such a stigma about mental health here. If managers aren’t talking about the issues, reporters don’t think they can. Editors need to encourage discussions about risks or the pain and stress from the work. Without that leadership — the honest discussions — it leaves people on their own.” Since the Russian war against Ukraine began in 2014, leading to its full-scale invasion in 2022, 28 journalists and media workers have...
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
journalism.co.uk | Katerina Sergatskova
Credit: Houses of the Oireachtas from Ireland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Katerina Sergatskova is a journalist and editor working in hostile environments. For more than 20 years, she has been covering controversial issues like human rights violations, war, and terrorism in the Eastern European region.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
wilsoncenter.org | Katerina Sergatskova
In February 2014, the Russian army invaded Crimea from positions it had established within the region and annexed the Ukrainian peninsula. In the ten years that have passed since then, a beautiful tourist destination has turned into a war zone. The West’s handwringing over the events in Crimea, accompanied by little action, told the Kremlin everything it needed to know.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
wilsoncenter.org | Katerina Sergatskova
Ukraine’s health is vital to Euro-Atlantic peace and security. The longer a full-scale war continues, the more problems deepen, and not only in the spheres of military risks and security. The growing political, economic, and environmental crisis in the region is producing separate but related problems. The sooner Ukraine and its allies propose an effective strategy for ending the war in one form or another, the greater the chance of preserving at least some part of the pre-war order.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
warzoneua.substack.com | Katerina Sergatskova
Advertisement of the Crimea Beach party. Photo: Saint Javelin. In the spring of 2023, the head of Ukrainian intelligence, Lieutenant General Kyryllo Budanov, promised the Ukrainian army would enter Crimea as early as this summer. Many people believed it was possible. Even the famous brand Saint Javelin released a special capsule of clothing dedicated to the beach party in Crimea, with profits from sales going to buy drones and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
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Jun 16, 2023 | 
wilsoncenter.org | Katerina Sergatskova
The June 6 destruction of the Kakhovka dam by the Russian occupiers was a catastrophe not only for Ukraine but for the entire Eurasian region. What are the consequences of one of the worst human-caused disasters of our time for the region's residents and the environment?
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Jun 15, 2023 | 
zaborona.com | Katerina Sergatskova
The explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant by the Russian occupiers led to catastrophic consequences. The water flooded dozens of cities and towns in southern Ukraine, while to the north of the reservoir, it subsided, exposing the river bottom. Zaborona’s editor-in-chief Kateryna Serhatskova visited flooded villages in the Mykolaiv region and saw houses built of clay melting in the water, and attended the funeral of a man who died in a flood in his sleep.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
warzoneua.substack.com | Katerina Sergatskova
On 6 June, Ukraine celebrates Journalist’s Day. This is a special op-ed on whether the state of freedom of speech in Ukraine has deteriorated since the beginning of the Russian invasion, why journalists are being stripped of their accreditation, and what is the relationship between the press and authorities in Ukraine. First published at Zaborona.com. During the full-scale invasion, journalism in Ukraine found itself in perhaps the most challenging situation since Ukrainian independence.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
zaborona.com | Katerina Sergatskova
On 6 June, Ukraine celebrates Journalist’s Day. In the op-ed, Zaborona’s Editor-in-Chief Katerina Sergatskova argues whether the state of freedom of speech in Ukraine has deteriorated since the beginning of the Russian invasion, why journalists are being stripped of their accreditation, and what is the relationship between the press and authorities in Ukraine.
