Today, along with my friend @KlasfeldReports, I’m launching a new publication.

Introducing @allrisenews.

Our current system of journalism is flawed.

It omits what WE CAN DO about the terrible things we read about. We’ll report news, then show you how to turn it into action.

We will bring you fearless journalism that won’t treat you like passive spectators to Donald Trump’s assault on democracy.

Reporting that guides you through your rights and powers in the law.

Scoop: Trump’s special envoy for Russia Steve Witkoff has a serious conflict of interest: business dealings with a man sanctioned by Ukraine as a threat to its national security.

Len Blavatnik is a longtime business partner of Witkoff’s, and made his money in post-Soviet Russia. Steve Witkoff, appointed as Trump’s special envoy, has repeatedly shown not just an affinity for Moscow but has openly stated that he “spent a lot of time talking and developing a friendship and relationship” with Putin — a dictator responsible for the deaths of Ukrainians.

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

Tomorrow Germany will vote. Will it stand by Ukraine or give power to the pro-Russian far right?

Kirill, a Ukrainian in Hungary, warns voters about ‘Orbanization’ of Germany. Kiril Demchenko has lived in Hungary for four years, so he knows how a country changes when its authorities flirt with the Kremlin, as Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban has done.

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Trump’s suspension of U.S. foreign aid has left numerous Ukraine-based humanitarian projects w/o funding.

USAID is supporting veterans groups, local media, critical infrastructure among other vital areas. Russian intelligence contact relatives of Ukrainian POWs immediately after capture, trying to manipulate them into sending money or sensitive information.

They also promise prisoner exchanges or better treatment for their POW relatives while in captivity.

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

War doesn’t stop, even on Christmas Eve. Nastia and I spent the night at a medical stabilization point near the frontline, where medics were working around the clock to save Ukrainian soldiers. We had barely started eating Kutya – the sweet Ukrainian Christmas dish you’re obliged to eat first, and with a spoon – when the first call came in for an emergency evacuation.

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

For years I thought I was done with Maria Butina, the Russian agent linked with the NRA that I uncovered.

But after she was released from prison, she went back to Russia to become a legislator with Putin’s party... … and I became a resident of Kyiv, a city being relentlessly attacked by the forces she so vigorously supports.

This is the inside story of how I came to unmask Maria Butina.

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukraine’s hands.

Poland and Ukraine are strong allies.

But unresolved historical tensions strain their relations, threatening Ukraine's accession to the EU.

Many Poles, like ambassador Bartosz Cichocki, cannot forgive the Volhynian massacre. More than 80 years ago, Ukrainian nationalists killed thousands of Poles in the western regions of Ukraine. They targeted children, women, the elderly, and other civilians. In retaliation, Poles carried out numerous revenge attacks against the Ukrainian population.

Good morning readers, Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

A Russian documentary that whitewashes the crimes of the Russian military in Ukraine has turned out to be funded by Canada.

Olha Glotka, who saw these crimes with her own eyes, is outraged by the film's debut in Toronto. This Friday, a documentary film about Russian soldiers illegally occupying Ukraine will make its North American debut at the Toronto Film Festival.

The movie – titled 'Russians at War' – has been criticized by Ukrainians and pro-Ukrainian Canadians as overtly propagandistic.

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

So does the city of Sudzha.

Russia justifies its invasion by reclaiming “historic” territories.

But the past of Kyiv's seized areas in Russia, like Sudzha — a former Ukrainian city — shows the absurdity of such claims. The history of Sudzha, like many cities along the Russian-Ukrainian border, has ties to both nations.

Putin’s imperial logic would suggest Ukraine would have a claim on this territory – something the Ukrainians themselves have rejected.

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

The Red Cross’s job is to monitor/facilitate international law. In Ukraine, it’s obvious that it has failed.

Meet Illia: His family didn't know he was alive because the Red Cross lost his info while he was a POW. When Ukrainians were beaten to death in Russian prisoner of war camps, the Red Cross was nowhere to be seen.

The organization left Mariupol early in the full-blown war when more than 300,000 civilians were surrounded by occupation troops, leaving them to their fates.

NEWSFLASH: Children's hospital struck in brazen Russian daylight attack

Just a week ago we profiled the work of the Okhmatdyt Children's Clinic in Kyiv. Today, it was hit. We rushed to the scene to report. In central Kyiv, you can hear the difference between outgoing air defense missiles, firing up over the city: a hollow ‘poof!’ sound.

And then there’s the kind of explosion you don’t want to hear:

…a crunchier, sharper sound indicating something on the ground has been hit.

While China calls for the death of current Taiwanese independence advocates, we went to where it all started.

Peng Min-min is the godfather of the Taiwanese independence movement, and sacrificed his closest relationships for what he believed in.

Here is his story. Prophets often stand alone, misunderstood – sometimes even condemned by their own people.

As a godfather of Taiwanese independence, Professor Peng Ming-min knows this better than anyone.

Good morning to readers, Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

A Russian attack on one of Europe's largest printing houses destroyed 50k books and 40% of Ukr printing capacity.

For Olena Rybka, it represented the heart of Ukrainian culture. Book lovers will find this heartbreaking. Olena Rybka remembers how terrifying it was to see that Factor Druk’s binding shop in Kharkiv was destroyed by a missile.

The pain of losing her colleagues was compounded by the sight she was confronted with: every book was destroyed, all of the works turned to ashes by the Russian attack on May 23 this year.

When SARS broke out in Taiwan in ‘03, the WHO denied Taiwan’s request for the virus’ DNA to combat it.

The WHO told Taiwan’s health minister at the time to ask China.

China refused the request and 137 people died in the following four months. Taiwan has been denied WHO membership for five decades due to political reasons, says Dr. Chien-Jen, Taiwan’s Minister of Health at the time of the SARS outbreak.

This has cost Taiwan innocent lives.

Good morning to readers, Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

Today’s issue – in honor of AAPI heritage month – revolves around what it’s like to be an Asian journalist in Ukraine.

... in a weird way, I found it liberating. In the U.S. I found race to be the central way in which people saw me.

In Ukraine, with so few Asians around, there are essentially no stereotypes around it – and so no presumptions made.

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

War has brought destruction to the waters around Ukraine.

15-20% of the Black Sea dolphin population perished after the full-scale invasion.

But some of these dolphins have a secret… they are trained Russian agents. In a country at war, death is all around.

But for Pavel Goldin, he’s focused on a particular kind of collateral damage – an aquatic mammal he’s spent much of his life studying.

Good morning to readers, Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

Russia's 3am attacks do not only physical damage.

Frequent strikes have caused collective harm to the psyche of millions of Ukrainians: wounds without physical marks.

Myroslava and I explore effects on Ukrainian sleep. The seemingly random timing of the Russian military’s middle-of-the-night attacks damages more than just the targets of the missiles.

The effect of these attacks over the last two years has caused collective harm to the psyche of millions of Ukrainians: wounds without physical markings.

Good morning to readers, Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

But in Andriivka, an accused collaborator still walks amongst his neighbors.

Meet Mykola, a man claiming to be a monk, who allegedly helped the Russians when they occupied his village.

We went there to track him down. "If I had a gun, I would shoot him myself,” said a woman known as Grandma Sofia.

Already over 80 years of age, she's the sort of person in a small village who knows everything about everybody.

She’s the talkative type, the kind that trades the local gossip.

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

But the tensions are high in Zakarpattia region, which remains a stumbling block in relationship between Ukraine and Hungary.

This is where a Ukrainian artist reconstructs a Hungarian castle, fostering peace between two nations. The westernmost region of Ukraine has been a source of heated debate after 2010, when far-right candidate Viktor Orbán rose to power as a prime minister of neighboring Hungary.

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

But it might not be, had the Battle of Antonov Airfield had gone another way.

Ahead of its anniversary, we collected dozens of eyewitness testimonies for an intimate account about the most important battle of the war. “Where’s my artillery?” demanded the voice on the phone.

It was Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces.

Russian paratroopers had landed on Antonov Airfield, 20 miles northwest of central Kyiv.

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EU approves €50 bln aid package for Ukraine.

After months of Orban vetoing aid to Ukraine, the EU has abandoned their softer approaches and has threatened to kick Hungary out of the EU voting process or cut all EU funding to Hungary. 207 Ukrainian POWs were returned in a prisoner swap yesterday.

This follows Russia accusing Ukraine of downing a plane with Ukrainian POWs last week. Russia has given no proof and has shown “no readiness” to return the bodies of the POWS, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s MOD said.