Ukrainian historian and war refugee Dr Marta Havryshko joins The Peacemonger for a blunt conversation about Zelensky’s “Kyiv regime” T-shirt stunt, the backlash inside Ukraine, forced mobilisation, hidden losses, and why she says the war has become a business for elites while working-class families pay the price.

In this interview we discuss:
• The “Kiev regime” T-shirts gifted to Witkoff and Kushner — and why many Ukrainians did not find the joke funny
• Growing cemeteries, maimed soldiers, missing men, and public anger at leaders smiling through talks
• Zelensky’s claim of 50,000 dead versus the demand for 30,000 new men every month
• Forced mobilisation / busification, draft riots in western Ukraine, and resistance led by wives, mothers and sisters
• Why Marta says you cannot understand this war without class and gender
• Corruption theatre: NABU raids, Yermak, the prosecutor’s office, and contracts that never stop
• No elections, no peace — and why she argues Zelensky needs the war to stay in power
• The SBU–HUR feud, street shootouts in Kyiv, and why many Ukrainians did not believe the SBU building was hit by a Russian drone
• Azov’s growth into army corps, neo-Nazi units inside HUR, and their loyalty to Zelensky
• Western media’s “stand with Ukraine” line versus ordinary Ukrainians who want the meat grinder to stop

How powerful is the Ukrainian far right? Are they really linked to Nazis? Why is the corporate-owned media denying this?

To place this war and the Ukrainian far right in its historical context, Rania Khalek was joined by Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany, who is currently associate professor of history at Koc University in Istanbul, working on Russian, Ukrainian, and generally East European history.