Jared Goyette

Kyiv my friend

Just heading to work this morning, listening to POTUS channel on SIRIUSXM when @jaredgoyette.bsky.social was talking. I knew you had moved on from doing stuff in the Twin Cities - good to hear you moving up and doing some good work in Ukraine.

Без надії таки сподіватись.

Reading about Trump’s plan to bleed a devastated post-war Ukraine dry with colonial “agreements” forced down Ukrainians’ throats while I huddle in the bathroom of my Kyiv apt, listening to one distant explosion after another. Ru drone attack. Ukraine has always been caught between imperial empires.

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Trump doesn't care one way or the other about Ukraine, but he does want to come out of negotiations as the "victor," delivering on a campaign promise and getting whatever accolades follow. If Trump views Putin as the main obstacle, he will start progressively taking stronger actions against him.

My first piece to 🇧🇷 media in @folha.com with Marina Slhessarenko Barreto.

I highlighted how critical reporting of the war management has increased in Ukraine, pointing to work by UA journalists. I try to spotlight 🇺🇦 civil society and efforts to resist Ru and push for internal accountability.

It's telling when writers like Anatol Lieven talk about "constitutional amendments guaranteeing the linguistic and cultural rights of Russians and Russian-speakers in Ukraine" while saying nothing about the linguistic and cultural rights of Ukrainain speakers in Russia or the territory it occupies.

The free English convo club for Ukrainian journalists I host with the Media Development Foundation now has 100 members, with reporters and editors from every corner of Ukraine.

We are adding international journalists as guest speakers. Reach out if interested. Wednesdays, 18:30, Kyiv time.

Today, I am editing a 🔥 Oksana Zabuzhko speech as translated by Hanna Leliv! Such a good combo. I just try to stay out of the way and make helpful suggestions and small tweaks where needed. Looking forward to seeing it published.

If you are a Ukraine supporter and don't know Zabuzhko, fix that!

In December, I'll be in Berlin to visit my gf. Let me know if there is anyone I should get coffee with while I'm here.

Allow me to reintroduce myself:

I'm a 🇺🇸 copy editor and journo based in Kyiv. I edit translations for The Ukrainians Media. On Wednesdays, I host a free English conversation club for 🇺🇦 journalists. 18:30 Kyiv time.

Help me connect with UA supporters here, будь ласка.

how do people feel about video?

Well, fine then.

Artem Chapeye on the search for authentic Ukraine: ‘It doesn't have to be a ‘propaganda’ story’ While the term "The Ukraine" is typically used to refer to Ukraine during its time within the Russian Empire, here Chapeye reclaims or re-appropriates it to denote "untranslatable cultural phenomena" ...

I spoke with Ukrainian soldier, writer, and activist Artem Chapey about the new English translation of his book "The Ukraine" and its aim to portray a humanistic, nuanced picture of Ukraine and Ukrainians — showing the good and the bad, "but with love."

Read/share:
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His writing is so delicate, yet powerful. Deeply personal. edited an interview with him last year and his words stuck with me. Particularly his humor, and self depreciation in such a grim and serious setting. Worth reading his words now. chytomo.com/en/maksym-kr...

Thinking about Maksym Kryvtsov, the Ukrainian solider-poet just killed at the front. I'm new to Ukrainian. Speak it like a toddler. But I was so captivated by the film adaption of his poem "He moved to Bucha," last year. I watched it for hours. Line by line, with a dictionary.

Just trying to laugh at it

COVID thoughts: I have bursts of energy when the mental fog lifts and and I feel like I can tackle so much — the daily work I'm behind in, the emails and messages I need to respond to, and then maybe those creative projects I've neglected.

Alas, these moments only last about 40 mins. Then nap.

I have COVID in Ukraine AMA.

Jk. I mean it’s true but I don’t think anyone will have questions. I am just standing in my apartment to stop coughing and it’s getting dull.

Yah that often is the case, though it’s kind of weird to think of pro bunch folks as culinary freedom fighters.

It was just populist, anti elites or at least perceived that way, and yes, populism can swing both ways.

Russians who executed unarmed Ukrainian soldiers were killed The Russian invaders who executed unarmed Ukrainian servicemen have been killed, said Vitalii Barabash, Head of the Avdiivka City Military Administration.

☠️ Russians who executed unarmed Ukrainian soldiers were killed

Links! Telegram links please.

The drones are gone. Or went somewhere else. I kinda regret my decision to leave the bar. But the curfew is great for my sleep schedule.

So apparently they announce bar close with tornado sirens in Kyiv? Overkill if you ask me.

“When the war began, he picked up a machine gun for the first time... and this enables the international community to understand that the people fighting for Ukraine are ordinary civilian men and women who decided to fight for their right to live in a peaceful country."

Russian shelling ignited blaze at Kherson's largest library, many books lost бібліотека Гончарівка, Гончарівка Херсон, обстріли Херсонської обласної бібліотеки, Херсонська обласна біб�...

Russian forces shelled Kherson's biggest library last week, igniting a fire that devastated a floor and destroyed countless books—a stark reminder of the ongoing assault on Ukrainian culture.

I went to a medical clinic in Kyiv to see a doctor for a swollen lymph node. They gave me a blood test and an ultrasound and charged me $50. Total. As an American, I'm very confused.

These were short ones. Didn't get the chance to talk to anyone. But at least now I have a better sense of how to prepare and what I need.