Iuliia Mendel is a Ukrainian journalist and political advisor. She worked for several Ukrainian television channels, served as a communications consultant for the World Bank, and contributed to The New York Times.
Her articles have been published by Politico Europe, Atlantic Council, Vice, Spiegel Online, and Forbes.
She served as press secretary and spokesperson for Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine (2019-2021).
In 2022, Mendel published the book "The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World."
US efforts to invest in Ukraine’s nuclear industry have sparked controversy, raising questions about its feasibility, likelihood, risks, and potential impact on Ukraine’s fragile sovereignty. This...
On 11 March 2025, a devastating attack took place in a village in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, claiming the lives of two boys aged 13 and...
Ukraine faces yet another opportunity—at least its fourth—to negotiate a ceasefire. None of the potential agreements will be ideal or just, but they carry the...
The war in Ukraine has been reduced to a dangerously oversimplified narrative, framed in the familiar terms of black-and-white absolutes. Our discourse is now saturated...
The new Ukrainian diaspora—refugees of Russia’s full-scale invasion—has the potential to reshape the political and social landscape back home. Since February 2022, around 8 million...
