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.
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
In Memoriam: Tom Stoppard, Playwright, Human Rights Champion – a Personal Tribute - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/65333
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
Replacing Yermak With Umerov to Negotiate Ukraine’s Future is a Blunder - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/65246
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
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.
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
Ukraine's Power Broker Just Fell – And the Timing Couldn't Be Worse, or Better? - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/65210
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
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
🎙️ 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
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
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
Turkeys at the Table: Trump and Witkoff’s Repulsive Banquet With Putin - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/65128
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
No Imposed Capitulation! - www.kyivpost.com/editorial/64... Kyiv Post's editorial at this anxious moment.
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
How the West Betrayed Starving Ukraine Long Before Munich - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/64700
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
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!
My latest for TVP World. www.kyivpost.com/videos/61656
Orbán Accuses Zelensky of ‘Blackmail’ Over EU Entry
Tensions rise between Ukraine and Hungary after Prime Minister Viktor Orbán accused President Volodymyr Zelensky of trying to “blackmail” his country into the EU.
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October 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
My latest for TVP World. www.kyivpost.com/videos/61656
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
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
Vitaly Korotych Remembered – An Intriguing Encounter with a Controversial Ukrainian Poet - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/61475
Russian Attacks Intensify in Ukraine | Bohdan Nahaylo
4 killed, 40+ hurt in Russia’s latest strikes. With winter close, Moscow may intensify attacks on Ukraine’s power grid. Bohdan Nahaylo, Kyiv Post Editor-in-Chief, unpacks what this means for Ukraine.
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September 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
President Zelensky, Don’t Forget about Your Democratic Belarusian and Other Allies - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/60708
Opinion: President Zelensky, Don’t Forget about Your Democratic Belarusian and Other Allies
It’s time for the Ukrainian president to act as the leader and champion of other countries seeking to free themselves from Russian imperialistic pressure.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
President Zelensky, Don’t Forget about Your Democratic Belarusian and Other Allies - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/60708
Putin bombs and kills; Trump talks and stalls; Europe prepares, but hesitates; Ukraine suffers and fights on. For now, the only light at the end of the tunnel are the explosions from long-range missiles and drones hurting Russia's economy and war effort.
September 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Putin bombs and kills; Trump talks and stalls; Europe prepares, but hesitates; Ukraine suffers and fights on. For now, the only light at the end of the tunnel are the explosions from long-range missiles and drones hurting Russia's economy and war effort.
Vasyl Stus and the Sixtiers – Ukraine’s Generation of Dissenters - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/59581
Opinion: Vasyl Stus and the Sixtiers – Ukraine’s Generation of Dissenters
A tribute on the 40th anniversary of poet Vasyl Stys’s murder in a Soviet labor camp. His verse continues to steel a nation fighting for independence.
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September 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Vasyl Stus and the Sixtiers – Ukraine’s Generation of Dissenters - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/59581
Reposted by Bohdan Nahaylo
Putin met with Kim Jong Un&thanked him for helping the Russian army in Kursk region& "fighting modern Neonazism":
"I'd like to note that your warriors fought heroically. I'd like to note that we will also never forget those sacrifices that your armed forces and the families of your servicemen bore.
"I'd like to note that your warriors fought heroically. I'd like to note that we will also never forget those sacrifices that your armed forces and the families of your servicemen bore.
September 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Putin met with Kim Jong Un&thanked him for helping the Russian army in Kursk region& "fighting modern Neonazism":
"I'd like to note that your warriors fought heroically. I'd like to note that we will also never forget those sacrifices that your armed forces and the families of your servicemen bore.
"I'd like to note that your warriors fought heroically. I'd like to note that we will also never forget those sacrifices that your armed forces and the families of your servicemen bore.
Does renegade Fico deserve to be included in the EU setup? What do Slovaks think of their PM who puts Putin and Russia above Europe & beleaguered Ukraine, & is transforming Slovakia into a Russian fifth column? Or are we back to 1968 & Bilak v Dubcek days? Slovaks, what say you?
September 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Does renegade Fico deserve to be included in the EU setup? What do Slovaks think of their PM who puts Putin and Russia above Europe & beleaguered Ukraine, & is transforming Slovakia into a Russian fifth column? Or are we back to 1968 & Bilak v Dubcek days? Slovaks, what say you?
As Trump waffled on at his press conference, ignored his latest expired deadline re. Putin & Ukraine, air sirens went off again in Kyiv. European leaders meeting this week, this man is a wrecker. He does not give a damn about you, nor Ukraine. Delay no longer. Act!
September 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
As Trump waffled on at his press conference, ignored his latest expired deadline re. Putin & Ukraine, air sirens went off again in Kyiv. European leaders meeting this week, this man is a wrecker. He does not give a damn about you, nor Ukraine. Delay no longer. Act!
Air raid sirens sounding again in Kyiv as Xi, Putin, Modi, Fico, etc. meet in China, mocking Trump's appeasement, procrastination. Today, Trump's latest 'deadline' expires. At least Europe is finally responding in a united and purposeful manner in support of Ukraine with deeds, not just words.
September 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Air raid sirens sounding again in Kyiv as Xi, Putin, Modi, Fico, etc. meet in China, mocking Trump's appeasement, procrastination. Today, Trump's latest 'deadline' expires. At least Europe is finally responding in a united and purposeful manner in support of Ukraine with deeds, not just words.
34 Years Ago Today – How Ukraine Reaffirmed Its Desire to be Independent - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/58837
Opinion: 34 Years Ago Today – How Ukraine Reaffirmed Its Desire to be Independent
On Aug. 24, 1991, the then still Soviet Ukrainian parliament declared Ukraine’s independence. How and why?
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August 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
34 Years Ago Today – How Ukraine Reaffirmed Its Desire to be Independent - www.kyivpost.com/opinion/58837