In Conversation: Covering the War in Ukraine

Journalists and photographers play a critical role in shaping how current events are understood and remembered. Reporting from the front lines in Ukraine demands urgency and courage to reveal the truth in a war where the enemy seeks to suppress honesty and integrity.

We invite you to an engaging discussion, In Conversation: Covering the War in Ukraine, on Thursday, January 9, 2025, at 6 PM at the Ukrainian Institute of America.

Join award-winning journalists Christopher Miller and Simon Shuster, along with renowned photojournalist Sasha Maslov, as they share insights into their experiences covering the war in Ukraine and the global impact of their work.

A book signing and light reception will follow the discussion.

Meet the Speakers:

Christopher Miller is the chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. He has lived in and reported from Ukraine since 2010, and is the author of The War Came To Us: Life And Death In Ukraine, winner of the 2024 Witold Pilecki International Book Award.

His reporting on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has revealed war crimes committed by the Russian army and helped convict its soldiers in the international criminal court. As an editor and reporter at Ukraine’s Kyiv Post newspaper in 2014, Miller helped lead the team that won the Missouri Honor Medal Winner for Distinguished Service in Journalism for coverage of the Euromaidan Revolution, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its first invasion of eastern Ukraine.

Miller was previously a world and national security reporter for POLITICO, a world correspondent for BuzzFeed News and the Ukraine correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. His work has also been published with The Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, CNN, Vice News, the Telegraph and other news outlets.

Simon Shuster has reported on Russia and Ukraine for over 17 years, most of that time as a staff correspondent for TIME Magazine. Born in Moscow, he and his family came to the United States as refugees from the Soviet Union when he was six years old and settled in San Francisco.

After graduating from Stanford University in 2005, Simon returned to Moscow to work as a reporter for The Moscow Times, Reuters, the Associated Press and other publications. His political coverage of Russia’s descent into authoritarianism included numerous profiles of Vladimir Putin and interviews with Dmitry Medvedev and other top Russian officials. He has also interviewed and profiled the last three presidents of Ukraine, starting with Viktor Yanukovych, whose violent overthrow in 2014 he covered from Independence Square in Kyiv.

Simon first interviewed and profiled Volodymyr Zelensky in the spring of 2019, when the actor and comedian was in the middle of his campaign for the presidency. Since Zelensky’s election victory, Simon has been granted unparalleled access to his administration, his close friends, aides and staffers. He has traveled three times with President Zelensky to the front lines of the war in Ukraine and spent months reporting from inside the presidential compound in Kyiv as the Russian invasion unfolded.

Sasha Maslov is a Ukrainian-American portrait and documentary photographer based between Kyiv and New York. After studying photography under his father and at the Kharkiv City Palace of Children and Youth Creativity, he traveled the world and settled in New York City at the age of 24. Since then he has established himself as a photographer renowned for his work in environmental portraiture and visual storytelling. Maslov has a keen eye for the unnoticed and builds comprehensive visual narratives with his photographs.

His work has been exhibited in various photo galleries and art spaces around Europe and the United States, including at the UIA in 2017. Sasha is a regular contributor to a number of magazines and leading publications in the United States and Europe, and is actively pursuing work on his documentary projects.