Jakub Parusinski
@jakubparusinski.bsky.social
Head of @ki-insights.bsky.social at @kyivindependent.com and Director at @thefixmedia.bsky.social. Focus on Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Media Tech and Business
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What Are Ukraine’s 2026 Scenarios? Let’s discuss at the KI Insights in-person briefing in Kyiv!
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#UkraineAnalysis
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December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What Are Ukraine’s 2026 Scenarios? Let’s discuss at the KI Insights in-person briefing in Kyiv!
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#UkraineAnalysis
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#UkraineAnalysis
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What trajectory will Ukraine follow next?
Join us on 5 Dec for an exclusive briefing, where KI Insights Director @jakubparusinski.bsky.social & Anatoliy Oktysiuk will help you make sense of rapidly shifting political landscape.
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KI Insights briefing and Christmas reception registration
KI Insights, a strategic intelligence unit powered by the Kyiv Independent, organizes monthly briefings on major political and economic issues. In December, we will discuss the scenarios for Ukraine i...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What trajectory will Ukraine follow next?
Join us on 5 Dec for an exclusive briefing, where KI Insights Director @jakubparusinski.bsky.social & Anatoliy Oktysiuk will help you make sense of rapidly shifting political landscape.
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Join us on 5 Dec for an exclusive briefing, where KI Insights Director @jakubparusinski.bsky.social & Anatoliy Oktysiuk will help you make sense of rapidly shifting political landscape.
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In the world of doomscrolling, you have less than ten seconds to capture your audience's attention, journalist, trainer, and expert Aleksandar Manasiev warned in the second episode of the FixEd podcast.
📍 Get more insights in the full interview 👉 thefix.media/2025/09/04/f...
📍 Get more insights in the full interview 👉 thefix.media/2025/09/04/f...
December 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
In the world of doomscrolling, you have less than ten seconds to capture your audience's attention, journalist, trainer, and expert Aleksandar Manasiev warned in the second episode of the FixEd podcast.
📍 Get more insights in the full interview 👉 thefix.media/2025/09/04/f...
📍 Get more insights in the full interview 👉 thefix.media/2025/09/04/f...
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🎙 New Episode: Geneva talks & the NABU crisis — Has Zelensky bought time?
Our experts break down how diplomacy and the domestic scandal are colliding. 🧵
Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/0lVT...
Our experts break down how diplomacy and the domestic scandal are colliding. 🧵
Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/0lVT...
Geneva talks & NABU crisis: Has Zelensky bought time?
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November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🎙 New Episode: Geneva talks & the NABU crisis — Has Zelensky bought time?
Our experts break down how diplomacy and the domestic scandal are colliding. 🧵
Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/0lVT...
Our experts break down how diplomacy and the domestic scandal are colliding. 🧵
Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/0lVT...
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🎧 Listen to the full episode with @jakubparusinski.bsky.social & A.Oktysiuk: open.spotify.com/episode/0lVT...
Ukraine Insights — in-depth analysis and conversations with those who know Ukraine best.
Ukraine Insights — in-depth analysis and conversations with those who know Ukraine best.
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🎧 Listen to the full episode with @jakubparusinski.bsky.social & A.Oktysiuk: open.spotify.com/episode/0lVT...
Ukraine Insights — in-depth analysis and conversations with those who know Ukraine best.
Ukraine Insights — in-depth analysis and conversations with those who know Ukraine best.
Big news from Ukraine this morning - hugely destabilizing both internally and for the peace process
#ukraine #nabu #yermak
#ukraine #nabu #yermak
This morning #Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies - NABU+SAPO - carried out a search of the Office of the President’s head Andriy Yermak. This is yet another escalation in the country’s disastrous domestic political crisis (not to be confused with the parallel Peace-Talks crisis)
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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All this unfolds as Ukraine faces one of its toughest moments yet: Russian strikes on critical energy infrastructure have caused rolling blackouts nationwide, while the front line is deteriorating with #Russia’s forces edging closer to capturing #Pokrovsk in the #Donbas.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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As a result, the Energy Minister and the Justice Minister resigned, sanctions were imposed on key figures in the case, and Energoatom’s vice president Jakob Hartmut was suspended. But public discontent won’t be so easily contained.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As a result, the Energy Minister and the Justice Minister resigned, sanctions were imposed on key figures in the case, and Energoatom’s vice president Jakob Hartmut was suspended. But public discontent won’t be so easily contained.
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The raids followed months of mounting tensions between Ukraine’s leadership and the country’s top anti-corruption bodies that peaked in July with the so-called Cardboard Maidan protests.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The raids followed months of mounting tensions between Ukraine’s leadership and the country’s top anti-corruption bodies that peaked in July with the so-called Cardboard Maidan protests.
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Anti-corruption detectives from NABU and SAPO raided the homes of Zelensky’s associate Timur Mindich, Justice Minister Herman Halushchenko, and Energoatom offices, uncovering piles of cash and signs of entrenched graft.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Anti-corruption detectives from NABU and SAPO raided the homes of Zelensky’s associate Timur Mindich, Justice Minister Herman Halushchenko, and Energoatom offices, uncovering piles of cash and signs of entrenched graft.
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The biggest scandal of Zelensky’s presidency.🧵
Everyone is talking about it. We asked the experts.
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#Ukraine #NABU #Mindich #Zelensky
Everyone is talking about it. We asked the experts.
🎙️ Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0A4O...
#Ukraine #NABU #Mindich #Zelensky
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The biggest scandal of Zelensky’s presidency.🧵
Everyone is talking about it. We asked the experts.
🎙️ Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0A4O...
#Ukraine #NABU #Mindich #Zelensky
Everyone is talking about it. We asked the experts.
🎙️ Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0A4O...
#Ukraine #NABU #Mindich #Zelensky
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For the latest FixEd episode, journalist, editor of
@thelocalsweden.bsky.social, and trainer @emmalofgren.bsky.social joins host Orsolya Seregely to explore the key challenges facing today’s newsrooms, including the shift from traffic-driven to audience-focused, staff retention & newsroom toxicity.
@thelocalsweden.bsky.social, and trainer @emmalofgren.bsky.social joins host Orsolya Seregely to explore the key challenges facing today’s newsrooms, including the shift from traffic-driven to audience-focused, staff retention & newsroom toxicity.
FixEd podcast: newsroom leadership with Emma Löfgren
The shift from traffic-driven to audience-focused newsrooms has been a particularly draining challenge.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
For the latest FixEd episode, journalist, editor of
@thelocalsweden.bsky.social, and trainer @emmalofgren.bsky.social joins host Orsolya Seregely to explore the key challenges facing today’s newsrooms, including the shift from traffic-driven to audience-focused, staff retention & newsroom toxicity.
@thelocalsweden.bsky.social, and trainer @emmalofgren.bsky.social joins host Orsolya Seregely to explore the key challenges facing today’s newsrooms, including the shift from traffic-driven to audience-focused, staff retention & newsroom toxicity.
As the Operation Midas scandal was breaking, I spoke to Anatolii about the risks Ukraine was facing.
Sadly, grim forecasts seem to be coming true - Ukraine is at its most vulnerable since the winter of 2022/2023 with grave challenges ahead
Sadly, grim forecasts seem to be coming true - Ukraine is at its most vulnerable since the winter of 2022/2023 with grave challenges ahead
⚡Can President Zelensky and Prime Minister Svyrydenko navigate this crisis?
Find the answers in the new episode of the Ukraine Insights podcast with @jakubparusinski.bsky.social and Anatolii Oktysiuk.
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Find the answers in the new episode of the Ukraine Insights podcast with @jakubparusinski.bsky.social and Anatolii Oktysiuk.
🔗Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0A4O...
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
As the Operation Midas scandal was breaking, I spoke to Anatolii about the risks Ukraine was facing.
Sadly, grim forecasts seem to be coming true - Ukraine is at its most vulnerable since the winter of 2022/2023 with grave challenges ahead
Sadly, grim forecasts seem to be coming true - Ukraine is at its most vulnerable since the winter of 2022/2023 with grave challenges ahead
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💶 The EU Economic & Financial Affairs Council #ECOFIN meets on Nov 13 – with UA 2026 funding still unresolved. #Belgium continues to block reparations loan proposal, raising questions over shared risks.
What else should we watch next week? 👇🧵
#KIweekahead #Ukraine
Photo: Simon Wohlfahrt
What else should we watch next week? 👇🧵
#KIweekahead #Ukraine
Photo: Simon Wohlfahrt
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
💶 The EU Economic & Financial Affairs Council #ECOFIN meets on Nov 13 – with UA 2026 funding still unresolved. #Belgium continues to block reparations loan proposal, raising questions over shared risks.
What else should we watch next week? 👇🧵
#KIweekahead #Ukraine
Photo: Simon Wohlfahrt
What else should we watch next week? 👇🧵
#KIweekahead #Ukraine
Photo: Simon Wohlfahrt
Why attend the G20 when all that matters is G2 (or 2.5)
President Donald Trump has said no US officials will attend the G20 summit in South Africa later this month, reviving debunked claims of white Afrikaners being systematically "killed and slaughtered" in the country ➡️ u.afp.com/Sno4
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Why attend the G20 when all that matters is G2 (or 2.5)
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1 week to go!🚨
Join us on Nov 13 for our next KI Insights Monthly Briefing:
“Battlefield Update: #Ukraine's Frontline Situation Ahead of Winter.”
🕓 16:30 Kyiv | 15:30 Brussels | 14:30 London | 09:30 DC
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Join us on Nov 13 for our next KI Insights Monthly Briefing:
“Battlefield Update: #Ukraine's Frontline Situation Ahead of Winter.”
🕓 16:30 Kyiv | 15:30 Brussels | 14:30 London | 09:30 DC
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November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
1 week to go!🚨
Join us on Nov 13 for our next KI Insights Monthly Briefing:
“Battlefield Update: #Ukraine's Frontline Situation Ahead of Winter.”
🕓 16:30 Kyiv | 15:30 Brussels | 14:30 London | 09:30 DC
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Join us on Nov 13 for our next KI Insights Monthly Briefing:
“Battlefield Update: #Ukraine's Frontline Situation Ahead of Winter.”
🕓 16:30 Kyiv | 15:30 Brussels | 14:30 London | 09:30 DC
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Update: Browse @jakubparusinski.bsky.social & Francis's briefing presentation here: insights.kyivindependent.com?shared=6853d... KI Insights subscribers can also access the recording.
📅Join KI Insights on June 17 for a briefing with @jakubparusinski.bsky.social and Kyiv Independent's Francis Farrell on battlefield dynamics and Kyiv’s strategic outlook zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🖊️Details: kyivindependent.com/ukraines-fro...
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June 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Update: Browse @jakubparusinski.bsky.social & Francis's briefing presentation here: insights.kyivindependent.com?shared=6853d... KI Insights subscribers can also access the recording.
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Join KI Insights for an exclusive online briefing on Tue, May 20, where Director
@jakubparusinski.bsky.social will delve into #Ukraine's evolving business environment.
🖋️ Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Full event details: kyivindependent.com/reforms-tran...
@jakubparusinski.bsky.social will delve into #Ukraine's evolving business environment.
🖋️ Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Full event details: kyivindependent.com/reforms-tran...
May 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Join KI Insights for an exclusive online briefing on Tue, May 20, where Director
@jakubparusinski.bsky.social will delve into #Ukraine's evolving business environment.
🖋️ Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Full event details: kyivindependent.com/reforms-tran...
@jakubparusinski.bsky.social will delve into #Ukraine's evolving business environment.
🖋️ Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Full event details: kyivindependent.com/reforms-tran...
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“Despite the doom and gloom of the funding cuts, I left Perugia more optimistic than I arrived – mainly because of some of the less obvious ways in which the industry has changed”, @jakubparusinski.bsky.social writes. Here are his 10 thoughts coming out of the @journalismfestival.com.
10 reflections on the 2025 International Journalism Festival in Perugia - The Fix
The future of media financing, the role of MediaTech & the not-so-central place of AI – Jakub Parusinski shares his insights from the 2025 @International Journalism Festival.
thefix.media
April 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
“Despite the doom and gloom of the funding cuts, I left Perugia more optimistic than I arrived – mainly because of some of the less obvious ways in which the industry has changed”, @jakubparusinski.bsky.social writes. Here are his 10 thoughts coming out of the @journalismfestival.com.
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New from The Fix – Redkollegia is an independent media award dedicated to recognizing high-quality Russian journalism. But how does it operate in wartime?
Awarding independent Russian journalism in wartime – Redkollegia’s evolution from prestigious award to financial lifeline - The Fix
Redkollegia is an independent media award dedicated to recognizing high-quality Russian journalism. But how does it operate in wartime?
thefix.media
April 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
New from The Fix – Redkollegia is an independent media award dedicated to recognizing high-quality Russian journalism. But how does it operate in wartime?
The real question is how many top secret government Signal chats have randos who are *not* chief editors of major news publications
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March 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The real question is how many top secret government Signal chats have randos who are *not* chief editors of major news publications
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The National Security Council is looking into how Goldberg was added for a second day now 😳
Let me solve the mystery:
Waltz typed 'J' and Jeffrey was right next to JD
You're welcome
Let me solve the mystery:
Waltz typed 'J' and Jeffrey was right next to JD
You're welcome
March 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The National Security Council is looking into how Goldberg was added for a second day now 😳
Let me solve the mystery:
Waltz typed 'J' and Jeffrey was right next to JD
You're welcome
Let me solve the mystery:
Waltz typed 'J' and Jeffrey was right next to JD
You're welcome
Worth noting - much of Trump 2s political capital, meant to be used on reshaping global order, has been squandered in Ukraine
He's lost a lot of cards
He's lost a lot of cards
Of note - so far Trump "peace mediation" has not just failed to produce results, but actively undermined US leverage:
1/ Ukraine refused to roll over
2/ Russia refusing all concessions
3/ Transatlantic rift
4/ Pan-Europe defence push (in process)
1/ Ukraine refused to roll over
2/ Russia refusing all concessions
3/ Transatlantic rift
4/ Pan-Europe defence push (in process)
March 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Worth noting - much of Trump 2s political capital, meant to be used on reshaping global order, has been squandered in Ukraine
He's lost a lot of cards
He's lost a lot of cards
The big question - just how much space is between US and Russian negotiators and to what extent is a facade still meaningful
Russia is unlikely to accept it - it would mostly benefit Ukraine, which has fewer aerial capabilities (the sea part is mixed).
The question is: will the Trump team bring it to Russia to (likely) be rejected, or will they do it *on behalf* of Russia.
#ceasefire #peacetalks
The question is: will the Trump team bring it to Russia to (likely) be rejected, or will they do it *on behalf* of Russia.
#ceasefire #peacetalks
March 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The big question - just how much space is between US and Russian negotiators and to what extent is a facade still meaningful