Spokane native Kristin Blyckert was in town this week to visit her family and stop by her alma mater, Whitworth University. Blyckert has lived in Kyiv, Ukraine for nearly three years. She’s a lawyer for a non-governmental organization, Global Rights Compliance, and works with Ukrainian officials to build human rights cases against Russian soldiers and others suspected of war crimes.
We asked her to tell us what Kyiv looks like after more than three years of war.
This interview lightly edited for brevity and clarity.…