About this episode

Daria Synhaievska discusses Ukraine's challenges in rebuilding and combating corruption.

Daria Synhaievska is an analyst and journalist with the multimedia project UkraineWorld. For a period of time, she cohosted the podcast, "Explaining Ukraine". In her December 2025 analysis, "The Grid, the State, and the War: Ukraine’s Double Fight Against Missiles and Corruption", Ms. Synhaievska outlines the many challenges faced by Kyiv in rebuilding the grid, confronting deep corruption and fighting for electricity and the integrity of the state. She has a detailed proflile on the Wow Woman online platform established by the Ukrainian Olga Smaidenko in 2015. In this interview Ms. Synhaievska offers her thoughts on how Ukraine is transforming itself for future generations. https://ukraineworld.org/en/articles/analysis/fight-against-missiles-and-corruption https://www.wowwoman.com/inside-ukraine-daria-synhaievska-analyst-journalist-scholar-kyiv

People in this episode

Host: Michael Buryk

Guest: Daria Synhaievska

Topics covered

• Ukraine's challenges
• future of Ukraine
• corruption
• electricity
• state integrity
• journalism

Keywords

• Ukraine
• Daria Synhaievska
• corruption
• electricity
• Kyiv
• journalism
• future generations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UkraineWorld, Wow Woman

Places: Kyiv

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