It’s one of my favourite cities, and I have been admiring the way that parts of Ukraine and civil society have been trying to build an independent, functioning civil society in recent years. Well, I care deeply about what’s happening in Ukraine because I did my PhD in the former Soviet Union when it was the Soviet Union. Why is it important to you that we that we know about this? And you’re talking to us about it during your vacation because this story means a lot to you. Gillian, you have told this really heartening story that to me really brought the Russia-Ukraine war to life in a very tangible way. Now that computers are magnitudes better than humans, the game has substantially changed. Then we talked to Oliver Roeder, the senior data journalist in New York, about the latest in the world of professional chess. According to Gillian, it seems to be helping. A war that’s using western connections and training to protect against a bigger, stronger and much more old fashioned enemy. Gillian says that they’re fighting a lateral war versus a vertical one. Today we meet some of the people in Ukraine fighting it. It’s been six months since the war in Ukraine started. And what’s fascinating is that this network goes all the way over to Silicon Valley and has brought in a lot of the techie entrepreneurs who’ve been driving American innovation in recent decades and are now turning their attention to Ukraine. Much of the defence of Ukraine has come about not because of top-down orders or vertical hierarchies, but because of bottom-up improvisation by a huge number of digital savvy people working in the Ukrainian military. It reminds her of the open source spirit of the internet.
Julian has been reporting on post-Soviet countries for decades, and she’s been really taken by the way Ukraine is fighting back against Russia. Gillian recently featured Roman in a piece she wrote about how Ukraine is fighting a new type of war.
That’s Gillian Tett, FT columnist and chair of our US editorial board.
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