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Ukraine’s Surprising Ties to Silicon Valley

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DONETSK OBLAST, UKRAINE - AUGUST 19: Soldiers of the 26th Artillery Brigade watch the drone's flight from laptops while sitting in cover on August 19, 2025 in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Donetsk Oblast continues to be the place of most fierce battles since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion. On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian war that started in 2014.  ((Photo by Maks Muravsky/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images))

The Ukraine-Russia war has been called the most technologically advanced war in history. In an episode from KQED’s Close All Tabs podcast, Bay Area journalist Erica Hellerstein visits Ukraine to learn about how the nation’s culture of tech innovation — and its surprising ties to Silicon Valley — are fueling the country’s resistance through an army of engineers, coders, hackers, and tinkerers.


Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.

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