Amplifying diverse Ukrainian voices and decolonizing Ukraine conversations. Discussing Ukraine abroad without a single Ukrainian featured is still a norm. Not only it continuously robs us of our agency, but it also perpetuates outdated, misleading, and false narratives about Ukraine and Ukrainians. Amid the ongoing genocide, we nurture a safe, and chill space for Ukrainians and friends of Ukraine to express themselves without the need to fit any foreign labels.
Ukrainian Spaces
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Amplifying diverse Ukrainian voices and decolonizing Ukraine conversations. Discussing Ukraine abroad without a single Ukrainian featured is still a norm. Not only it continuously robs us of our agency, but it also perpetuates outdated, misleading, and false narratives about Ukraine and Ukrainians. Amid the ongoing genocide, we nurture a safe, and chill space for Ukrainians and friends of Ukraine to express themselves without the need to fit any foreign labels.
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Recent Episodes
January 28, 2026
Six windows on Ukraine: Acceptance.
<p><strong>“Acceptance is learning how to live, even when grief never leaves.”</strong></p><p>For our fifth season,<a href="http://ukrainianspaces.com/"> <u></u><strong>Ukrainian Spaces</strong><u></u></a> returns to its beginnings, revisiting six Ukrainians from the 2022 inaugural season to see how war, time, and resistance have reshaped their lives. Across six episodes—<strong>fear, belonging, creation, resilience, love, and acceptance</strong>—our guests reflect on the past and write letters to their former selves. This season affirms that Ukraine’s story is best told by Ukrainians themselves.</p><p>For our season five finale, the Acceptance episode, Val and Maksym reunite with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/boochelnikova/"><strong>Marichka Buchelnikova</strong></a>, a Ukrainian producer, journalist, civil society advocate, and co-founder of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/uaexplainers/"><strong>Ukraine Explainers</strong></a>. We reflect on extreme resistance burnout many Ukrainians face, accepting our human limits in the face of existential threat, and the quiet work of learning how to live alongside genocide without normalising it.</p><p>Since her first appearance on Ukrainian Spaces in 2022, Marichka has had to make a series of difficult life choices and completely rethink her relationships with work, activism, and self-preservation. She speaks candidly about exhaustion, about saying less with more impact, and about accepting that some changes brought by war are irreversible.</p><p>In this episode, Marichka helps us understand acceptance not as resignation, but as a form of resistance: the ability to grieve, to care, to love, and to keep choosing life in a violent reality that cannot be undone. </p><p>We hope that with this season five finale, we can inspire more people beyond Ukraine to learn from Ukrainians and step into, unfortunately, a more turbulent future without being paralysed by fear and anxiety. </p><p><a href="http://ukrainianspaces.com/"><strong>Ukrainian Spaces</strong></a> is more than a podcast; it's a movement. It's about reclaiming the Ukrainian story, breaking free from outdated Ukrainian stereotypes, and understanding the complex roots of Ukraine's present and future. Together, we can unravel the threads of Ukrainian history and witness the unwavering spirit of a nation fighting for its right to exist.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>SUPPORT: </strong><a href="http://ukrainianspaces.com/"><strong>Ukrainian Spaces</strong></a> is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. Please ensure we can amplify more Ukrainian voices and decolonise more Ukraine conversations - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/c/ukrainianspaces/posts"><u>become our Patreon sponsor</u></a> or bring a friend if you already are (a free trial is available.) </p><p><br></p><p><strong>GET FEATURED: </strong><a href="https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/ukrainianspaces/message"><u>send us a voicemail </u></a></p><p><br></p><p>This season, Ukrainian Spaces returns in partnership with <a href="https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/"><strong>Ukrainska Pravda</strong></a> – one of Ukraine’s most trusted voices for truth and freedom. Stand with independent Ukrainian journalism. You can also <a href="https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/supportus/"><u>make a donation through their website</u></a> or <a href="https://www.patreon.com/pravdaua"><u>join their Patreon community</u></a>. Every contribution keeps the story alive.</p>
January 21, 2026
Six windows on Ukraine: Love.
<p><strong>“What this war taught us as a society, as people, is that yes, it doesn't take you a lot to help somebody, to step in, to extend your hand to people whom you do not know. It made us more open to helping strangers, to helping each other.”</strong></p><p>For our fifth season, <a href="http://ukrainianspaces.com/"><strong>Ukrainian Spaces</strong></a> returns to its beginnings, revisiting six Ukrainians from the 2022 inaugural season to see how war, time, and resistance have reshaped their lives. Across six episodes—<strong>fear, belonging, creation, resilience, love, and acceptance</strong>—our guests reflect on the past and write letters to their former selves. This season affirms that Ukraine’s story is best told by Ukrainians themselves.</p><p>In this Love episode of the new Ukrainian Spaces season, we reconnect with a Ukrainian journalist, media strategist and head of <a href="https://www.ukrainer.net/en/"><u>the Ukraїner</u></a> platform, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yulia_tymosha/"><strong>Julia Tymoshenko</strong></a>. She shares with Val and Maksym why she decided to stay in Ukraine in 2022, choosing journalism as her new career, and how she has taken on even more responsibility in uncertain times.</p><p>Julia opens up about the lasting scars of the russian occupation of her home village, and why any future peace in Ukraine and Europe won’t be possible without justice served for stealing, violating and destroying Ukrainian homes. Julia closes the episode with a letter to her 2022 self, written from a place shaped by loss, endurance, and love.</p><p><a href="http://ukrainianspaces.com/"><strong>Ukrainian Spaces</strong></a> is more than a podcast; it's a movement. It's about reclaiming the Ukrainian story, breaking free from imperial stereotypes about Ukraine, and understanding the complex roots of Ukraine's present and future. Together, we can unravel the threads of Ukrainian history and witness the unwavering spirit of a nation fighting for its right to exist.</p><p><strong>SUPPORT: </strong><a href="http://ukrainianspaces.com/"><strong>Ukrainian Spaces</strong></a> is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. Please ensure we can amplify more Ukrainian voices and decolonise more Ukraine conversations - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/c/ukrainianspaces/posts"><u>become our Patreon sponsor</u></a> or bring a friend if you already are (a free trial is available.) </p><p><strong>GET FEATURED: </strong><a href="https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/ukrainianspaces/message"><u>send us a voicemail </u></a></p><p>This season, Ukrainian Spaces returns in partnership with <a href="https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/"><strong>Ukrainska Pravda</strong></a> – one of Ukraine’s most trusted voices for truth and freedom. Stand with independent Ukrainian journalism. You can also <a href="https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/supportus/"><u>make a donation through their website</u></a> or <a href="https://www.patreon.com/pravdaua"><u>join their Patreon community</u></a>. Every contribution keeps the story alive.</p>
January 14, 2026
Six windows on Ukraine: Resilience.
<p><strong>“A Ukrainian home is something you rebuild, again and again.”</strong></p><p>For our fifth season, Ukrainian Spaces returns to its beginnings, revisiting six Ukrainians from the 2022 inaugural season to see how war, time, and responsibility have reshaped their lives. Across six episodes—fear, belonging, creation, resilience, love, and acceptance—our guests reflect on the past and write letters to their former selves. This season affirms that Ukraine’s story is best told by Ukrainians themselves.</p><p>In this Resilience episode of the new Ukrainian Spaces season, we speak with <a href="https://oliahercules.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><u><strong>Olia Hercules</strong></u></a>, a Ukrainian-born celebrity chef and writer whose work goes far beyond food. Olia talks about family, memory, and what happens when history is erased and must be carried by people instead — as a form of Ukrainian resilience, tested by centuries of Ukrainian resistance to erasure.</p><p><a href="https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/ukrainianspaces/episodes/why-ukrainian-cuisine-tastes-so-fantastic--feat--olia-hercules-e1lcd46/a-a9s3n91" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><u>Since her first appearance on the Ukrainian Spaces in 2022</u></a>, Olia has started educating her large international audience about war crimes in Ukraine and daily terror Ukrainians have been enduring, but also about the richness of the Ukrainian culture and traditions — proving that even public figures outside politics can and should be using their platforms to stand up for their values, human dignity and justice. Departing from her usual bestselling cookbooks, Olia has also published “<a href="https://oliahercules.com/books/strong-roots" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><u><strong>Strong Roots</strong></u></a>,” a family memoir shaped by generations of war, deportation, and exile. </p><p>In this episode, Olia helps us understand Ukraine through one family’s experience and shows how survival is not only about enduring but also about continuing to love, remember, and rebuild.</p><p><a href="http://ukrainianspaces.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><u><strong>Ukrainian Spaces</strong></u></a> is more than a podcast; it's a movement. It's about reclaiming the Ukrainian story, breaking free from outdated Ukrainian stereotypes, and understanding the complex roots of Ukraine's present and future. Together, we can unravel the threads of Ukrainian history and witness the unwavering spirit of a nation fighting for its right to exist.<br><strong>SUPPORT: </strong><a href="http://ukrainianspaces.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><u><strong>Ukrainian Spaces</strong></u></a> is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. Please ensure we can amplify more Ukrainian voices and decolonise more Ukraine conversations - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/c/ukrainianspaces/posts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><u>become our Patreon sponsor</u></a> or bring a friend if you already are (a free trial is available.) <br><strong>GET FEATURED: </strong><a href="https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/ukrainianspaces/message" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><u>send us a voicemail </u></a></p><p>This season, Ukrainian Spaces returns in partnership with <a href="https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><u><strong>Ukrainska Pravda</strong></u></a> – one of Ukraine’s most trusted voices for truth and freedom. Stand with independent Ukrainian journalism. You can also <a href="https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/supportus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><u>make a donation through their website</u></a> or <a href="https://www.patreon.com/pravdaua" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><u>join their Patreon community</u></a>. Every contribution keeps the story alive.</p>
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