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Hi, I’m Stefaniia Bern and I started working for Reuters during the first month of the war in Ukraine, helping a foreign team out with translations and finding stories. After six months of freelancing, during which I joined both text and video colleagues to accurately represent the human aspect of the war, I became a production assistant for the Reuters visuals team in Kyiv. Among my tasks are editing and writing scripts, as well as producing stories in the field. This year I interviewed many Ukrainian people who have suffered from the war in different regions. Among my stories are Kyiv raves offering music refuge during wartime, living in a bombed building which Banksy painted a mural on, a family mourning the symbol of the Bucha occupation and using camping tools to prepare for blackouts in the capital.

During the first year of a full-scale war, I was fortunate to work with renowned Reuters journalists from different fields. I enjoy producing multimedia stories and participating in teamwork aimed at the most genuine and humane stories. In the meantime, I’m studying for my Bachelor’s in psychology and trying to enjoy the remains of normal life in a capital severely impacted by the war.

Hi, I’m Jonathan S. Landay, a U.S. national security correspondent for Reuters. I’ve written about foreign affairs and U.S. defense, intelligence, and foreign policies for more than 30 years. In my current position, I cover intelligence and defense issues, terrorism, nuclear weapons, and arms control policies with a focus on U.S. foreign policy toward Europe, South Asia, and the Middle East. I also reported extensively on the Trump-Russia investigation.

My assignments have included the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, the wars of former Yugoslavia, the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and extensive tours of Afghanistan, where I covered the last four years of the Soviet occupation, the 2001 U.S. invasion and traveled unilaterally and embedded with U.S. and Afghan forces. I also spent considerable time in the Middle East, including two trips into Syria in 2014. I spent more than three months last year covering the war in Ukraine, including extensive time on the frontlines during the Ukrainian counter-offensives in Kharkiv and Kherson. I plan to return to Ukraine in the spring for more coverage.