
Between Two Worlds: Yana Matviychuk—On Life and Business in Kyiv with Crippled Infrastructure
My morning starts with a quest: how to brew coffee when there is no electricity. It’s supplied chaotically for 2 hours a day, and this morning I was out of luck. A small stove with a gas cylinder stands in

Women Mission Summit in Washington D.C.: Ukraine Uses “Soft Power” to Draw Global Attention. An Announcement by Yana Matviychuk
Ukraine faces many challenges, but 2026 brought a new and perhaps the most difficult one. For the first time since the start of the full-scale war, Ukraine is encountering a shift in the political rhetoric of its partners and a

Icy Siege: How Kyiv Survives the Darkest Winter of the War’s Fifth Year
If you look at satellite images of Europe at night, Kyiv resembles a black hole. The enormous metropolis, which glowed with lights just five years ago, is barely noticeable today. Successive Russian shelling has halted the operation of facilities responsible

What War Taught Me About Leadership, Freedom, and the Future We’re Building Together | Yana Matviychuk at Sharon Stevenson’s Podcast
Entrepreneurship In Ukraine | How It Really Started – Yana Matviychuk’s Story People often ask where everything began — the business, the humanitarian work, the advocacy. They expect a glamorous story. I always tell the truth: it started with $300

Yana Matviychuk’s name was stolen by Russian propaganda to change the opinion about the strike on Foros. How Ukraine reacted
When Ukrainian entrepreneur Yana Matviychuk opened her laptop one September morning, she saw something she couldn’t believe — an article about the strike on Foros, Crimea, published under her name on one of Ukraine’s leading news sites, Ukrainska Pravda. The

Valentyna Pavsyukova: «My frustration is deep. Many of my conservative friends have swallowed Russian propaganda». The Jason Jones Show
Valentyna Pavsykova is a Ukrainian-born missionary and humanitarian who has lived in the United States for the past 23 years. She became a U.S. citizen in 2011. And in 2007, she founded Chalice of Mercy – a nonprofit organization dedicated
