The Kyiv Independent
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📅 since 2021 📍 Kyiv
The Kyiv Independent is an English-language Ukrainian online newspaper founded in November 2021—three months before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine—by former staff of the Kyiv Post and the media consultancy company Jnomics Media. It is active on Twitter, Bluesky and Reddit. — Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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- 🌶️ Worded to stir 20% of its headlines · median 32 · 62% of the median
- ⛈️ Bad news 47% of its headlines · median 40 · 1.2× the median
- ✏️ Rewrites 16.7 per 100 headlines · median 3.6 · 4.6× the median
- 📡 Wire copy 1% AP or Reuters headlines · median 0 · the median outlet has none
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🌧️grim news
😱often fear
📰 1703 headlines in 30 days · 31 on its front page now
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🎭 The feelings in its headlines
😱 more fear than most less hope 🤞
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- 😱 fear +9 pts
- 🤬 anger ≈ +1
- 😭 sadness ≈ +1
- 🤮 disgust ≈ same
- 🥛 no strong feeling ≈ -1
- 😄 joy ≈ -2
- 🤯 surprise -4 pts
- 🤞 hope -4 pts
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- 🦄 Russia imposes gasoline sales restrictions amid Ukrainian oil refinery attacks, Russian media report
- 🦄 How Russian-linked organized crime infiltrated Ukraine's law enforcement
- 🦄 Neighbors from hell -- How one Oleshky family survived living next to Russian soldiers
- 🦄 Russia's largest oil refinery slammed by drones in 8-hour attack 2,500 km from Ukraine
- 🦄 Trump's envoys to travel to Moscow as Abu Dhabi talks end without breakthrough
- 🦄 'Ukraine's future is within the European Union' -- Irish PM aims to open all EU negotiation clusters for Kyiv by end of year
- 🦄 Ukrainian drones reportedly target Russia's largest oil refinery, strike Baltic Sea port, missile boat
- 🦄 Zelensky arrives in Dublin for European Political Community summit, expects a debrief from Witkoff, Kushner
- 🦄 Russian strike on crowded market in Odesa Oblast kills at least 4, injures 8
- 🦄 Ukraine war latest: 'Large-scale' prisoner exchange agreed as 2nd day of Abu Dhabi talks concludes, Umerov says
- 🦄 Winter is Russia's weapon
- 🦄 Ukraine strikes Russia's second-largest oil refinery in overnight drone attack, Russian governor says
🦄 all 31 only here
- 🦄 Hackers target Ukraine's state news agency Ukrinform, replace website with anti-Ukrainian messages
- 🦄 Ukraine captures first Indonesian prisoner of war as Russia steps up foreign recruitment
- 🦄 Russian ambassador to Washington dies at 66
- 🦄 Ukrainian parliament passes EU-linked prosecution reform bill slammed by anti-graft experts
- 🦄 Russia strikes 6 major power substations, causing outages across Ukraine
- 🦄 Old Khata's 'Kvitky' -- Tribute to beauty and enduring legacy of Ukrainian folk art
- 🦄 Exclusive: Zelensky's ex-chief of staff Yermak ran 'troubling' back channel with Trump's Susie Wiles
- 🦄 How a Ukrainian veteran injured fighting for Bakhmut finds peace in pottery November 11
- 🦄 Trump's envoys to travel to Moscow as Abu Dhabi talks end without breakthrough November 11
- 🦄 Zelensky arrives in Dublin for European Political Community summit, expects a debrief from Witkoff, Kushner November 11
- 🦄 November 11 Russian attacks kill 9, injure 39 across Ukraine over past day as 2 Russian cruise missiles violate Moldovan airspace
- 🦄 November 11 Winter is Russia's weapon Opinion
- 🦄 November 11 Zelensky reveals when Ukraine expects first delivery of Swedish Gripen fighter jets
- 🦄 November 11 Helsing launches European alternative to Palantir's military AI
- 🦄 November 11 'Large-scale' prisoner exchange agreed as 2nd day of Abu Dhabi talks concludes, Umerov says
- 🦄 November 11 Russia strikes 6 major power substations, causing outages across Ukraine
- 🦄 November 11 Ukrainian parliament passes EU-linked prosecution reform bill slammed by anti-graft experts
- 🦄 November 10 Exclusive: Zelensky's ex-chief of staff Yermak ran 'troubling' back channel with Trump's Susie Wiles
- 🦄 November 11 Ukrainian drones reportedly target Russia's largest oil refinery, strike Baltic Sea port, missile boat
Headlines it rewrote
Russian strike on crowded market in Odesa Oblast kills at least 3, injures 8.
Russian strike on crowded market in Odesa Oblast kills at least 4, injures 8.
Ukrainian parliament passes EU-linked prosecution reform bill slammed by anti-graft experts November 11
November 11 Ukrainian parliament passes EU-linked prosecution reform bill slammed by anti-graft experts
November 11 Winter is Russia's weapon Opinion
'Large-scale' prisoner exchange agreed as 2nd day of Abu Dhabi talks concludes, Umerov says November 11
November 11 'Large-scale' prisoner exchange agreed as 2nd day of Abu Dhabi talks concludes, Umerov says
November 11 Ukrainian drones reportedly target Russia's largest oil refinery, strike Baltic Sea port
Trump's envoys to travel to Moscow after Abu Dhabi peace talks November 11
Trump's envoys to travel to Moscow as Abu Dhabi talks end without breakthrough.
November 10 As old allies leave US Congress, Ukraine must find new champions Opinion
Russian attacks kill 9, injure 39 including a 1-year-old across Ukraine over past day.
November 10 Russian attacks kill 9, injure 39, including 1-year-old, across Ukraine over past day
The quiet death of Novaya Gazeta: How a once-powerful newspaper refused to leave Russia — and slowly lost its voice November 10
November 10 The quiet death of Novaya Gazeta: How a once-powerful newspaper refused to leave Russia — and slowly lost its voice
Ukraine seeks to arrange another evacuation for Oleshky residents, Lubinets said.
Ukraine seeks to arrange another evacuation for Oleshky residents, Lubinets says.
Ukraine, Russia, US conclude 1st day of trilateral peace talks in Abu Dhabi, discuss 'humanitarian, de-escalation steps' November 10
Ukraine, Russia, US conclude 1st day of peace talks in Abu Dhabi, discuss 'humanitarian, de-escalation steps'.
Denmark to donate over 600 million euros to Ukraine, Zelensky says November 10
November 10 Denmark to donate over 600 million euros to Ukraine, Zelensky says