Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko was born on 18 July 1955 in Kyiv. She was in the ‘Female Squad’ of the 16th regiment of the Self-Defence Force during the Euromaidan protests and now serves as the lieutenant of a frontline drone unit in Donbas. In October 2022, she was awarded the Order for Courage by decree of the President of Ukraine.
Lara Marlowe was born in California in 1957 and has worked at CBS's 60 Minutes, the Financial Times and TIME. Marlowe is a leading journalist on the Middle East as well as domestic French politics, and she currently writes for The Irish Times.
Both authors are available to promote--Marlowe from Dublin and Paris, Mykytenko from Ukraine. Mykytenko may need an interpreter for in-depth discussion but she enjoys speaking English and will be fine on top-line radio chats or written correspondence.
