
Kateryna Semchuk is Ukraine correspondent at oDR, openDemocracy's post-Soviet space project, and an editor at Ukrainian Political Critique. She is a graduate of Paris Sorbonne IV, and is interested in political philosophy and ethics.
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Published in: oDR: FeatureUkrainians on the front line face a winter without warmth or light
Zaporizhzhia, a once 700,000-strong city 40km from Russia’s front lines, remain defiant – but life is hard
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Published in: oDR: NewsUkraine’s nurses face brutal winter as health austerity collides with war
Key workers told openDemocracy they are being paid months late or not in full due to a controversial healthcare reform
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Published in: oDR: FeatureRussia forced them to fight. Ukraine tried them for treason
Russia has forcibly mobilised tens of thousands in Ukraine’s occupied territories to fight
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Published in: oDR: FeatureUkrainian families’ fury at silence over Russia-held POWs
Some 30 members of Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanised Brigade are thought to have been captured. But their families are in the dark
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Published in: oDR: NewsUkrainian miners win their wartime strike, but victory looks short-lived
Victory may be fleeting for the miners in Novovolynsk, as they fear a reinstated director could be removed again
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Published in: oDR: FeatureHard to stay, hard to leave: Ukrainians on the struggle to evacuate Donetsk region
openDemocracy talks to those who’ve fled the front lines, about why many are reluctant to leave