🇺🇦 From Kyiv, Latika Takes interviews ‘Achilles’

his week Latika Takes: The Podcast is in Kyiv, Ukraine at the Yalta European Strategy (YES) Conference.

Major Yuri Fedorenko ‘Achilles’ is interviewed by Latika M Bourke in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo: Latika M Bourke

Her guest is one of Ukraine’s most decorated and well-known military Commanders — Major Yuri Fedorenko, who is better known as ‘Achilles’ — also the name of the UAV brigade he commands from Kharkiv.

Achilles speaks to Latika Bourke in Kyiv with the assistance of his wife, Maria Mezentseva, who is a Member of Ukraine’s Parliament.

Maria Mezentseva, Latika M Bourke and Major Yuri Fedorenko ‘Achilles’ in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo: Maria Mezentseva

Achilles and Maria discuss the state of the war, the lessons for Europe and what it’s like to be parents as your country is in an existential war.