The Kyiv Independent

The Kyiv Independent is an English-language Ukrainian online newspaper founded in November 2021—three months before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine—by former staff of the Kyiv Post and the media consultancy company Jnomics Media. It is active on Twitter, Bluesky and Reddit. In October 2021, disputes arose between the owner of the Kyiv Post and journalists at the newspaper believed that even under the presidency of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, their critical reporting was adversely affecting the business of the owner. The Kyiv Independent was supported by an emergency grant of 200,000 dollars from the Canadian government. In early February 2022, the newspaper began running advertisements and published its first commercial articles on its website. However, the invasion of Ukraine brought the newspaper's commercial activities to a halt. It previously received funding from USAID but now receives the majority of its funding from subscriptions from readers, of which there were over 18,000 by May 2025.