‘What I do as a journalist is the way I defend my country,’ says Parliamentary Press Gallery’s sole Ukrainian reporter

When National Defence Minister Anita Anand announced what Canada was contributing to Ukraine by way of lethal weaponry, the government of Ukraine asked its reporter Maksym Nalyvaiko not to report the details of the hardware.

Maksym Nalyvaiko is the Canadian correspondent for Ukrinform, Ukraine's state-run media outlet. He is the only Ukrainian journalist reporting to Ukraine from the Parliamentary Press Gallery, and, as far as he knows, the only one in all of Canada.The Hill Times Photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

April 11, 2022

Coverage of Canada’s response to Russia’s war against Ukraine has become a major file for many of the 303 permanent members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. But for Maksym Nalyvaiko, it’s also deeply personal, as he watches the country of his birth face brutal attacks from Russian forces th...

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