Illia Ponomarenko joined the Kyiv Post team in January 2017.
He covers national security issues, as well as military technologies, production, and defense reforms in Ukraine. Besides, he gets deployed to the war zone of Donbas with Ukrainian combat formations. He has also had deployments to Palestine and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as an embedded reporter with UN peacekeeping forces.
He graduated from the Mariupol State University in 2015, with a specialist degree in International Relations and Foreign Policy. He made his first steps in the profession by writing frontline dispatches for a local newspaper in his hometown of Volnovakha in Donbas.
After moving to Kyiv in the spring of 2016, he continued with his career in journalism.
Before joining the Kyiv Post, Illia worked as a news editor with Ukraine Today, another English-language media outlet that ceased to be active in late 2016.
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