When Melaniya Podolyak started her YouTube channel, her goal was to help provide civic education: explain governmental procedures, policy decisions coming out of Kyiv, and “internal politics of Ukraine to Ukranians.” Then the war started. Podolyak and Wittes talk about what she’s doing now: working for the Serhiy Prytula Foundation, which has supported the Ukrainian Army since 2014, and helping to combat misperceptions of Ukrainian identity through communications work. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.