Olga Rudenko: ‘It’s misrepresenting the full picture when you don’t balance it out with enough stories about attacks on Ukraine.’ Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The Guardian
Readers of Ukraine’s leading English news site “really want Russia to suffer” but that should not lead the title to downplay the military and political problems facing Kyiv, its editor has said.
Speaking to the Guardian before an event to London, Olga Rudenko said many of the Kyiv Independent’s most-read stories described Ukrainian deep strike attacks into Russia, potentially distorting its coverage.