Anastasiia Lapatina
@lapatina
Kyiv-based journalist with Lawfare. I go by Nastya Co-host of ESCALATION, a podcast about 🇺🇸&🇺🇦 Subscribe to my newsletter:
Teaching my toddler before bedtime where her home, Ukraine, is on the map minutes after packing a fresh emergency bag because we will get bombed tonight. Our lives are absurd.
Core Kyiv experience—walking your child over to daycare to the sound of air defence over your head.
You may not care about America, its politics, or DOGE, but you *have to* read this piece by my colleague @annabower.bsky.social ASAP www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Ukraine’s Minister of Defence Rustem Umerov with his American counterpart, Pete Hegseth, in Brussels today. The Ramstein-format meeting of 50+ Ukrainian allies is in session, but no new US aid packages are expected, according to WaPo
“They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday. But we’re going to have all this money in (Ukraine) and I say, I want it back,” Trump told Fox. The deal would be worth $500 billion, he said.
ESCALATION. A podcast about the United States and Ukraine. Out on Feb. 24 Hosted by @tylermcbrien.bsky.social and me
Musk calls to shut down Voice of America and RFE/RL, which are funded by Congress. So many amazing people work at these outlets. Had coffee with a friend who works for RFE/RL last week. Their entire newsroom was anxious about losing funding in light of USAID. Here it comes…