Yulia and friend of the podcast Mariia Shuvalova, literary critic and lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Fulbright Scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University in the city of New York spoke with Serhii Plokhy, Ph.D., Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, and author of The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (2015) and The Russo Ukrainian War: The Return of History (2023), who explained why the West must support Ukraine, why an armistice would be a loss, and what history tells us about russian imperialism.

Yewleea sat down with Charles, a social media influencer, self-described "freelance humanitarian," and tankie-explainer. Charles answers the questions: What is a tankie? Why are tankies so problematic? How do people become tankies? What's the typical profile of a tankie?

Today, we sit down with Mstyslav Chernov, who stayed behind with his team during the siege of Mariupol during russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine to report the realities on the ground.