Interview Archives - Euromaidan Press

A US Patriot air-defense launcher fires an interceptor beside an inset portrait of retired US Lieutenant General Ben Hodges.

11 minute read

Interview

The US Army’s former commander in Europe is “withholding applause” for Trump’s Patriot pledge—and expects no interceptors before winter.

Ben Hodges is pretty certain Ukraine will build no Patriot interceptors for three to six months. Until then, Ukraine will remain dependent on allied supplies—amid a global interceptor shortage.

byDaniel Thomas

Marta Baziuk, executive director of HREC and lead scholar behind the Holodomor genocide course on Coursera

12 minute read

Interview

Russia banned her for studying the famine it denies. She put it online for the whole world anyway.

Millions of Ukrainians died in the Holodomor—Stalin's deliberate starvation of Ukraine in 1932–33. Russia calls it a hoax—all while it replicates its methods in occupied Ukraine. Marta Baziuk, who helped build a course on the Holodomor, explains why the famine matters now—and why the course she helped build could only exist now.

byDaniel Thomas

10 minute read

Interview

The one sport moving against Russia is run by its ex-deputy PM

Moscow has hijacked the federation, says Malcolm Pein, the English delegate now standing for deputy president on a ticket challenging the Russian incumbent.

byPeeter Helme

22 minute read

Interview

NATO’s former second-in-command says what the alliance won’t: only Russia’s defeat ends the war

He warned about Russia a decade ago. Now he's inside Ukraine's command—still pushing for the strategy NATO won't write.

byAlya Shandra

A Patriot air-defense system launches an interceptor, with an inset portrait of defense scholar Marc DeVore — illustrating Ukraine's interceptor shortage.

11 minute read

Interview

Defense expert: Ukraine’s interceptor shortage has no quick fix

Only a handful of countries can build ballistic-missile interceptors, and all are short. Defense expert Marc DeVore explains why money can't fix Ukraine's interceptor shortage fast — and where the real leverage lies.

byDaniel Thomas

Polish-Ukrainian Memory Conflict Protests

13 minute read

Interview

“Poland and Ukraine need each other more than their leaders admit”— a Polish advocate for Ukraine on why the memory feud helps Moscow

Polish journalist Jerzy Wójcik, Sestry.eu co-founder, on what the UPA row is costing Ukrainians in Poland

byDaniel Thomas

14 minute read

Interview

“It was never formulated as Ukraine winning”—NATO’s ex-military chief on the missing strategy

It was also not formulated, "We're doing this so that Russia can lose this war." So the formulation became, "We're going to support Ukraine for as long as it takes," Admiral Bauer tells EP

byAlya Shandra

11 minute read

Interview

Twenty armed men capture a village on NATO’s eastern border. What happens next?

A Ukrainian frontline commander has thought it through. Europe hasn't.

byMartin ValešandbyAlya Shandra

7 minute read

Interview

The Ukrainian drone detectors that may soon protect everyone else

Meet one Ukrainian company that's trying to give this tech a global reach

byIgor Kossov

10 minute read

Interview

Ukraine’s deputy agriculture minister on the 2026 sowing, the labor crisis, and a sector holding steady under fire

Taras Vysotskyi on the 2026 sowing season, the war’s drag on labor, and a sector that has refused to contract.

byPeeter Helme

13 minute read

Interview

Russian mines cost Ukraine $11 billion every year. Clearing them is the work of decades

Deputy Minister Ihor Bezkaravainyi, who lost his leg to a mine in 2015, on clearing Russia’s mines from Ukraine.

byPeeter Helme

Ukrainian civilians queuing at post office with overlaid photos of war crimes investigators Dmytro Kovalchuk and Kristin Rosella

13 minute read

Interview

“Stop treating Russia’s bankers as faceless technocrats”: inside the war crimes case against Russia’s central bank

A landmark ICC complaint reframes Russia's financial occupation of Ukraine — pillaged banks, forced rubles, and passport-gated medical care — as a war crime

byDaniel Thomas

Nicolas Tenzer: stop talking about peace with Putin's Russia, the question is victory for Ukraine.

15 minute read

Interview

Nicolas Tenzer: stop talking about peace, the question is victory

French geopolitical expert on his book Our War, Putin's nihilist regime, and the strategic autonomy Europe must build with or without Washington

byDaniel Thomas

Auštrevičius lithuanian MEP EU parliament membership Ukraine

8 minute read

Interview

Ukraine’s EU membership: when, not if—but 2027 is unrealistic, says veteran MEP

A Lithuanian MEP who negotiated his own country's EU accession explains why 2027 is unlikely, why the procedural machinery isn't moving yet, and why Ukraine's membership is still a question of when, not if.

byAlya Shandra

9 minute read

Interview

Scan, switch, sanction—the app turning Western shoppers into Russia’s exit enforcers

About 2,300 large Western companies still pay taxes in Russia. State sanctions won’t touch most of them—going after…

byPeeter Helme

7 minute read

Interview

Bulgaria’s new Orbán? Ex-president Radev’s anti-Ukraine party wins country’s eighth election in five years

Bulgaria's ex-president Rumen Radev has won Sunday's parliamentary election — the country's 8th in five years. He opposes arms for Ukraine, wants "practical relations" with Moscow.

byMaria Tril

13 minute read

Interview

Vladislav Inozemtsev: A collapse is not imminent

Economist Vladislav Inozemtsev on oil windfalls, Ukrainian strikes, and why the war will be won on the ground

byPeeter Helme

andrew giarelli spoke with ep in lviv in april 2026

10 minute read

Interview

“There are no small literatures”: an American scholar on Ukraine’s battle for culture and truth

Showing atrocities doesn’t move people. Andrew Giarelli has been thinking about why and what works instead.

byPeeter Helme

jaak madison, an estonian member of the european parliament

13 minute read

Interview

Inside the EU parliament: the bloc Ukraine wants to join is already fracturing

A Baltic MEP on Hungary’s veto, Europe's war fatigue, and why the bloc Ukraine wants to join is already splitting apart.

byPeeter Helme

Iran khamenei axis of evil Russia china iran north korea USA

13 minute read

Interview

Russia’s allies keep dying. Russia keeps doing nothing. Defense analyst explains the Axis of Evil’s fatal flaw.

The whole system runs on one thing. Take it away, and there's no axis at all.

byAlya Shandra

Interview

The US Army’s former commander in Europe is “withholding applause” for Trump’s Patriot pledge—and expects no interceptors before winter.

Russia banned her for studying the famine it denies. She put it online for the whole world anyway.

The one sport moving against Russia is run by its ex-deputy PM

NATO’s former second-in-command says what the alliance won’t: only Russia’s defeat ends the war

Defense expert: Ukraine’s interceptor shortage has no quick fix

“Poland and Ukraine need each other more than their leaders admit”— a Polish advocate for Ukraine on why the memory feud helps Moscow

“It was never formulated as Ukraine winning”—NATO’s ex-military chief on the missing strategy

Twenty armed men capture a village on NATO’s eastern border. What happens next?

The Ukrainian drone detectors that may soon protect everyone else

Ukraine’s deputy agriculture minister on the 2026 sowing, the labor crisis, and a sector holding steady under fire

Russian mines cost Ukraine $11 billion every year. Clearing them is the work of decades

“Stop treating Russia’s bankers as faceless technocrats”: inside the war crimes case against Russia’s central bank

Nicolas Tenzer: stop talking about peace, the question is victory

Ukraine’s EU membership: when, not if—but 2027 is unrealistic, says veteran MEP

Scan, switch, sanction—the app turning Western shoppers into Russia’s exit enforcers

Bulgaria’s new Orbán? Ex-president Radev’s anti-Ukraine party wins country’s eighth election in five years

Vladislav Inozemtsev: A collapse is not imminent

Inside the EU parliament: the bloc Ukraine wants to join is already fracturing

Russia’s allies keep dying. Russia keeps doing nothing. Defense analyst explains the Axis of Evil’s fatal flaw.

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