Episode 26: Yaroslav Trofimov

Yaroslav Trofimov is the Chief Foreign‑Affairs Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, reporting on global conflicts since 1999. Born in Kyiv, he has spent much of the past three years on the frontlines of the Russian‑Ukraine war and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his coverage in both 2022 and 2023. His recent nonfiction, Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence (Penguin Press, Jan 2024), was a finalist for the Orwell Prize and won the Peterson Literary Prize. He’s also the author of No Country for Love, a historical novel rooted in Ukrainian family history.