‘Ukrainian Witness’ – a new media project to document and memorialize the terrible events in Ukraine
The goal of the project is to show the world the reality of war that has come to our country. It is the chronicle that our children, and our children’s children, will study in their history lessons.
The people behind Ukrainian Witness are trusted by Ukrainian defenders within all military positions and receive videos and photos from them on the ground, in the moment.
Content is produced with a global audience in mind, unvarnished with comments in English so the world can see what is happening in Ukraine. Now, we need the worlds media to partner with us and ensure truth on the ground in Ukraine is shown.
We also aim to support people within the russian federation to challenge misinterpretation and misinformation of what is happening to Ukrainians and their own people. Currently websites from the Ukrainian mass media are blocked in russia – however project presence is already felt with over 100k subscribers and growing.
Ukrainian Witness was initiated by Vitaliy Deynega, a public activist and founder of the International Charitable Fund Come Back Alive.
I barely remembered the beginning of the war back in 2014. By that time, everything started suddenly and developed very fast. Nobody fixed those events. Only a few photos and videos of decent quality would help our descendants remember what happened. At the same time Russian propaganda was already writing about us, changing how history is recorded and remembered. We were losing the informational battle.
When Russia attacked us again in 2022, the whole story repeated. We were unprepared to document our history. I needed to fix that. Within a couple of days, we mobilized videographers, journalists, editors, and other fantastic people. They work in different locations across our country to ensure we could show rather than retell our children how the things were in reality’ – Vitalyi Deynega.
Now, we need to ensure that not only is our history preserved but amplified to the world. People must hear about Ukraine from Ukrainians – and Ukrainian Witness will do that.
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCSw52AtaknWAZLUP6ZCKm8A/videos
Facebook (ua, en): facebook.com/ukrainianwitness
Instagram (ua, en): https://instagram.com/UkrainianWitness
About Vitaliy Deynega
Vitaliy Deynega – Ukrainian public activist. In 2014, he founded Charitable Fund “Come Back Alive” which would become the largest and one of the country’s most celebrated charities – or, perhaps, more accurately, one of its leading quasi-military organizations.
As of now, Vitaliy is Of Counsel to the Minister of Armed Forces of Ukraine and Of Counsel to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. After Russia started the war in Ukraine, he initiated “Ukrainian Witness” project.
Contacts:
Olga Buzunova, co-founder (communications)
olga.buzunova@gmail.com
Vitaliy Deynega, founder
deynega.vit@gmail.com
