Bohdan Nahaylo
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Bohdan Nahaylo
@bohdannahaylo.bsky.social
Chief Editor, Kyiv Post. Political analyst, journalist, author, historian, diplomat; formerly Head of Soviet Union unit at Amnesty International; Director of RFE/RL Ukrainian Service; UN official with UNHCR & DPA.
So another round of 'talks' in Florida. Ukraine not bending, despite Trump-Vance pressure. Russia insisting on all or nothing. POTUS giving Putin even more time to bomb and kill Ukrainians. What a pathetic, bloody farce! The Hague awaits not only Putin, but also his accomplices.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Beyond Yermak: Ukraine Needs Governance Reform, Not Just a New Face - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/65722
Opinion: Beyond Yermak: Ukraine Needs Governance Reform, Not Just a New Face
What needs to be done to protect Ukraine’s reputation, especially that of its embattled president, and to move forward more confidently in these complex times?
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December 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Don’t Betray Ukraine Again. No Excuses This Time! - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/65679
Opinion: Don’t Betray Ukraine Again. No Excuses This Time!
Reflections on today’s anniversary of the infamous 1994 Budapest Memorandum
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December 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Don’t Betray Ukraine Again. No Excuses This Time! - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/65679
Opinion: Don’t Betray Ukraine Again. No Excuses This Time!
Reflections on today’s anniversary of the infamous 1994 Budapest Memorandum
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December 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A Law Trump Hated Stands Between Him and Putin - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/65528
Opinion: A Law Trump Hated Stands Between Him and Putin
Will the law that could block Trump from giving in to Russia be remembered and utilized?
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December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Latest Moscow US-Russian embrace resulted in more stalling. Who are you continuing to kid? Trump, Witkoff, & fellow-travelers, enough is enough. Europeans move forward; Americans respond: put your house in order for your own sake and that of your friends. Finita la comedia!
December 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
AFP headline says it all: 'Zelensky calls for peace, Putin defiant ahead of US-Russia talks.' Ze. says we need lasting peace, not just a ceasefire. Putin says he's ready for war with Europe, if needed. Quite a difference! Trump & co. - are you paying attention? Do you care?
December 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Witkoff’s Latest Mission to Moscow: Rewarding Russian Aggression Won’t Bring Peace - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/65366
Opinion: Witkoff’s Latest Mission to Moscow: Rewarding Russian Aggression Won’t Bring Peace
Putin wants Ukraine’s surrender, not peace. Trump seems ready to accommodate him.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
In Memoriam: Tom Stoppard, Playwright, Human Rights Champion – a Personal Tribute - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/65333
Opinion: In Memoriam: Tom Stoppard, Playwright, Human Rights Champion – a Personal Tribute
I was fortunate to have known Stoppard in the 1970s when he was active defending Soviet dissidents, political prisoners, and victims of political abuse of psychiatry, including Ukrainian ones.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Replacing Yermak With Umerov to Negotiate Ukraine’s Future is a Blunder - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/65246
Opinion: Replacing Yermak With Umerov to Negotiate Ukraine’s Future is a Blunder
By prioritizing personal connections and loyalty over competence, Zelensky is sending the wrong signal at a critical moment.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Another massive overnight Russian air attack on Ukraine. More blood is on the hands of not only the war criminal in the Kremlin, but his accomplice through inaction in the White House, or is it Mar-a-Lago Golf Club - Donald, 'Leave it all to Witkoff' to manage on Moscow's terms.
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Ukraine's Power Broker Just Fell – And the Timing Couldn't Be Worse, or Better? - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/65210
Opinion: Ukraine's Power Broker Just Fell – And the Timing Couldn't Be Worse, or Better?
Lessons are to be drawn, but new opportunities have also appeared and this may be the jolt Ukraine’s political and financial set-up has been in need of.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Reposted by Bohdan Nahaylo
🎙️ New episode of OFF THE RECORD is now live.

Dmytro Kuleba — Ukraine’s former Foreign Minister — joins 🇨🇦 Ambassador Natalka Cmoc to talk strategy, diplomacy, AI, and why culture remains a battlefield.

Watch now: www.kyivpost.com/videos/65110
November 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Turkeys at the Table: Trump and Witkoff’s Repulsive Banquet With Putin - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/65128
Opinion: Turkeys at the Table: Trump and Witkoff’s Repulsive Banquet With Putin
As Americans carve their Thanksgiving turkeys today, turkeys of a human sort are carving up Ukraine and Europe’s future – and American credibility along with it.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
No Imposed Capitulation! - www.kyivpost.com/editorial/64... Kyiv Post's editorial at this anxious moment.
EDITORIAL: No
Ukraine confronts a historic crossroads: a proposed peace plan that rewards Russian aggression, threatens national dignity, and risks repeating the disastrous logic of appeasement.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
How the West Betrayed Starving Ukraine Long Before Munich - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/64700
Opinion: How the West Betrayed Starving Ukraine Long Before Munich
As Trump seeks to make a deal over Ukraine with a modern-day Russian Stalin, we should recall what happened the last time a US president did this.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The great betrayal of Ukraine, Europe and the international rules-based system, US values, unfolding. Trump saying 'F..k the Free World! I'll do whatever profits my ego and pocket.' Telling Russia it can get away with barbarism & land theft & be rewarded. No way this can pass!
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Vitaly Korotych Remembered – An Intriguing Encounter with a Controversial Ukrainian Poet - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/61475
Opinion: Vitaly Korotych Remembered – An Intriguing Encounter with a Controversial Ukrainian Poet
My secret acquaintance in London during the Cold War with a Soviet Ukrainian “agent.”
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October 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Vitaly Korotych Remembered – An Intriguing Encounter with a Controversial Ukrainian Poet - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/61475
Opinion: Vitaly Korotych Remembered – An Intriguing Encounter with a Controversial Ukrainian Poet
My secret acquaintance in London during the Cold War with a Soviet Ukrainian “agent.”
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October 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM