Jan 21, 2026

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Children carrying Christmas stars walk past destroyed Russian vehicles displayed at Mykhailivska Square during a Christmas procession in Kyiv on December 25, 2025, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images)

Guests:

Anna Nemtsova, Eastern Europe correspondent, The Daily Beast; contributing writer, The Atlantic; her new piece for KQED is “A Generation Orphaned by War: Ukrainian Children Grow Up Amid Loss and Recovery”

Steven Pifer, affiliate, Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University; former ambassador to Ukraine and senior director at the National Security Council in the Clinton administration