Ukrainian journalist Sevgil Musaieva: “Czech people understand the threat of Russia very clearly”

Photo: Khalil Baalbaki, Czech Radio

Sevgil Musaieva, a journalist from Crimea, Ukraine, is the editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda and among the initiators of the creation of the KrymSOS web portal. Ms. Musaieva was in Prague to speak this week at the conference Borders of (Un)Freedom, headlining the event in a moderated discussion with Yale historian Timothy Snyder. I spoke to her about Czech support for Ukraine and her thoughts on how Putin uses propaganda in the region to divert from his true intentions.

How has the Czech Republic supported Ukraine in its ongoing conflict with Russia? More than two years into the full-scale invasion some citizens and politicians in the Visegrad states have become more impatient about the war, others were already not sympathetic; we could think of Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, with his pro-Russian leaning.

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Author: Jakub Ferenčík