Stas Olenchenko and his partner didn’t mean to start Ukraine Explainers. But when the war started and they found that mainstream media sources weren’t able to cover the developments with sufficient attention to the colonial nuances, their work began. Stas sits down with Benjamin Wittes to talk about Ukraine Explainers’ contributions to understanding the Ukrainian War and dive into the complexities of Ukrainian national identity through the lenses of ethnic nationalism and civic nationalism.  Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.