He has been reporting on the war in eastern Ukraine since the first days of the conflict. He covers national security issues, military technology and Ukrainian defence reforms. He has been deployed with Ukrainian combat troops in the Donbas war zone and previously also as a UN peacekeeping reporter in Palestine and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2020, he received an Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellowship and was selected to serve as a guest reporter for USA Today at the U.S. Department of Defense.
Illia Ponomarenko
Defense reporter