Today, five months after he was fired, Ponomarenko is working around the clock for the Kyiv Independent “telling the world about this war as a service to humankind.” And indeed, the world is listening to this self-described “village guy from Donbas in a crusade for something better.” Today, 1.1 million people follow Ponomarenko on Twitter. World citizens searching for on-the-ground, English-language news of the invasion found the Kyiv Independent-a journalist-owned publication that, by its own account, serves “its readers and community, and nobody else” and one that “won’t be dependent on a rich owner or oligarch.” Just months later, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a brutal war against Ukraine. From its start, the Kyiv Independent has relied on small donations-the price of a weekly cup of coffee, for example-from subscribers and readers by way of Patreon and a GoFundMe campaign.

You can work here for free,” Ponomarenko told the Bulletin. Also, staff at a network of co-working spaces in Kyiv said, “Guys, you do a good job. Then, several lawyers offered pro bono services.

When word about the fledgling news startup got out around Kyiv, an information technology company helped the journalists build a website for free. Several Kyiv Post reporters issued a statement that Kivan had sought to compromise their editorial independence and that their dismissal was an attempt to purge “inconvenient, fair, and honest journalists.” Those reporters, including Ponomarenko, decided to start their own newspaper, which they named the Kyiv Independent. The owner, Adnan Kivan, had shut down the paper with little warning and no explanation, surprising even President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to a Radio Free Europe report. In November 2021, Illia Ponomarenko, a Ukrainian defense reporter, was fired from his job at the Kyiv Post-the country’s then-largest and oldest independent English-language newspaper.

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