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WorldKyiv Independent editor: ‘Our readers want Russia to suffer but we can’t be propagandists’

Kyiv Independent editor Olga Rudenko says readers’ appetite for reports of Ukrainian strikes on Russia must not skew coverage. The news site has a duty to report Russian military gains, attacks on Ukraine and Ukrainian corruption, she says, while remaining independent of the government. Rudenko also says media freedom has not worsened under Zelenskyy, but has not clearly improved.

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Kyiv Independent editor: ‘Our readers want Russia to suffer but we can’t be propagandists’
Kyiv Independent editor: ‘Our readers want Russia to suffer but we can’t be propagandists’World