NV Exclusive

This section contains exclusive stories, interviews, analysis, and articles from NV journalists, as well as opinion from regular contributors to the publication

Vadym Prystaiko (Photo: REUTERS/Tom Nicholson)

Speaking to Radio NV /

Prystaiko: Putin fears truce may end war, wants full control of Donetsk first

16 May 2025, 01:15 PM

EU Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius speaks with NV correspondent Nataliia Rop during the Kyiv Security Forum. (Photo: NV)

Exclusive interview /

EU Defense Commissioner Kubilius: Trump’s approach to peace talks only made Putin stronger

15 May 2025, 07:08 PM

Romanian volunteer for the International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine, callsign Old Fox (Photo: NV)

With NATO experience /

Romanian combat medic teaches battlefield survival in Ukraine

15 May 2025, 06:05 PM

Olha Reshetylova became Ukraine’s first military ombudswoman (Photo: Olha Reshetylova / Facebook)

Wartime reform /

Reshetylova: Ukraine’s army needs cultural shift to protect soldiers’ rights

15 May 2025, 10:55 AM

Andriy Biletskyi, founder of the 3rd Assault Brigade and recently appointed corps commander (Photo: 3rd Assault Brigade)

Inside Ukraine’s military reform /

How the 3rd Assault Brigade became a model for Ukraine’s future forces

14 May 2025, 04:34 PM

General Staff and military intelligence outline Russian actions on the front ahead of Türkiye talks (Photo: Oleg Petrasiuk / 24th King Danylo SMB via REUTERS)

Ukrainian intelligence reports /

Russia continues assault across Ukraine despite possible Istanbul talks

14 May 2025, 03:43 PM

A faithful holds their phone after Mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral, where an image of the Pope was shown on screen after Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States was announced as Pope Leo XIV, at Zocalo Square in Mexico City, Mexico, May 8, 2025. (Photo: REUTERS/Henry Romero)

Voice for the voiceless /

Leo XIV makes history as first American-born pope

11 May 2025, 10:33 PM

Vladimir Putin shakes hands with his special envoy Kirill Dmitriev as U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, stands nearby. St. Petersburg, April 11, 2025. (Photo: Sputnik/Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Pool via REUTERS)

No transition in sight /

Putin’s paranoia and the myth of succession

6 May 2025, 02:34 PM

Ukraine’s defense forces have long been exploring an approach where large numbers of drones work together as one large frigate or aircraft, Khrapchynskyi says (Photo: REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko)

Blueprint of a kill /

Magura drone strike on Su-30 was coordinated by multiple units — Ukrainian expert

6 May 2025, 12:30 PM

Endless stadium. Ukraine’s fifth and sixth presidents, Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, got personal as far back as 2019. (Photo: Collage by NV / Petro Poroshenko / Facebook / REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko)

‘Imperfect reputation’ /

Why Ukraine’s government is targeting Petro Poroshenko — and risking the NBU’s political neutrality

3 May 2025, 11:21 AM

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and Russian dissidents Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya Yashin attend a

Freed but not free of Empire /

Kara-Murza, Yashin, Navalnaya and Russia’s opposition paradox – Part two

28 April 2025, 12:23 PM

U.S. President Donald Trump (Photo: REUTERS/Nathan Howard)

Is all hope lost with Trump? What Ukraine can expect from ceasefire talks and U.S. support

25 April 2025, 02:52 PM

Vladimir Kara-Murza, Andrei Pivovarov and Ilya Yashin. (Photo: Kateryna Shenheliia)

Freed but not free of Empire /

Kara-Murza, Yashin, Navalnaya and Russia’s opposition paradox – Part one

21 April 2025, 02:21 PM

Yakhont is an export version of the Onyx missile (Photo: missilery.info)

Capable of flying extremely low /

What to know about Russia’s Onyx missiles launched into southern Ukraine

21 April 2025, 11:15 AM

Workers read a Bolshevik anti-religious propaganda newspaper, 1920s. (Photo: DR)

War against Easter /

How and why Lenin and the Bolsheviks tried to replace the holiday with May Day — and what came of it

20 April 2025, 01:42 PM

On the morning of April 6, Russia launched a massive ballistic missile attack on Kyiv and the region (Photo: Valentyn Ogirenko / REUTERS)

Evolving threat /

Expert explains why Ukraine’s air defense struggles with Russian ballistic missiles

17 April 2025, 07:27 PM

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un (Photo: KCNA via REUTERS)

Ukrainian expert Narozhnyi discusses potential role of DPRK soldiers in the Ukrainian conflict

17 April 2025, 03:48 PM

A DIFFICULT TASK: To produce the head of cheese that Andriy Bily, the chief technologist of the Dooobra Ferma cheese factory, holds in his hands, several dozen kilograms of milk must be processed (Photo: Oleksandr Medvedev / NV)

Delicate taste of victory /

Craft cheese from Ukraine is winning awards and gaining ground in European markets

16 April 2025, 11:55 AM

Visits by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko (background left) to Moscow are always a focal point for Russian TV. (Photo: DR)

Lies, glamor, and rubles /

Kremlin’s propaganda machine: Who funds it, who runs it, and how it dominates Russia’s media

13 April 2025, 06:44 PM

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