1571: Olha Rudenko Quotes 2024: Press Freedom, Democratic Rights & Frontline Accountability
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/10/25
How do Rudenko’s lines connect soldiers’ sacrifices to a mandate for independent journalism and civil liberties?
2024: “If they are dying, we should be using those rights.”
2024: “bad actors in government have more tools than ever to try and intimidate us.”
2024: “In the past few months, we’ve experienced some unusual and concerning attention from Ukraine’s law enforcement.”
2024: “We’re trying to find out more.”
2024: “It took a threat to our independence to start cherishing it.”
2024: “What’s at stake in this war is freedom in all its forms.”
2024: “As Ukrainians, we have no say in the U.S. election, but our future nonetheless depends on who wins it.”
2024: “Russia is associated with no freedom of speech, no freedom of media, no freedom whatsoever.”
2024: “…fighting for Ukraine not to be Russia.”
2024: “won’t hold back.”
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