Kyiv, Ukraine, 02000
$200 - $250 / Day
was born in Kyiv and grew up in the city, and so I have good connections in my native town and the surrounding region. As a journalist, I have worked on many projects in Chernobyl, Crimea, in the West and East of Ukraine, and recently in the conflict zone in the Eastern Ukraine. I know archives: I work in photo/video archives, SBU/KGB archives of declassified documents etc. Since 1998 I have worked as a researcher, fixer, local journalist and producer. I have worked for BBC Panorama, National Geographic, Australian TV '60 minutes', ARD, VPRO Netherlands and many other TV companies. Most of my recent projects have covered the current situations in politics, war in Ukraine and Chernobyl Accident, these include: Trump’s New America (BBC 2017), Conspiracy files: Who shot down MH-17? (BBC 2015), Putin's Gamble (BBC Panorama 2014), Behind the balaclavas (BBC Panorama 2014), Invisible Enemy (the history of the Chernobyl Power Plant and city Prypyat, 2013 - onwards) etc. However, I can also carry out research and work as a fixer for projects that include corruption, right & left movement and other subjects. From January 2011 till December 2016 I worked as a journalist of Polish Radio (Ukrainian Service). My native languages are Ukrainian and Russian, I fluently speak English and Polish, near fluently - French. Don't hesitate to contact me if you need to cover a story in Ukraine.
Produced for BBC
Panorama reveals shocking evidence of racist violence at the heart of Polish and Ukrainian football. Reporter Chris Rogers witnesses a group of Asian fans being attacked on the terraces of a Ukrainian premier league match. As a fixer I helped him with contacts and permits, arranged exclusive access to a far right group in Ukraine which recruits and trains football hooligans.
Produced for BBC
Conspiracy theories swirl around the crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17. Mike Rudin tries to verify theories about fighter jets and different types of missiles and to clear up what really happened. As a fixer I helped him with contacts (witnesses, pilot suspected in downing MH-17), arranged interview with prime minister of Ukraine Arseni Yatseniuk etc.
Produced for RTÉ
Paul Cunningham, who was in Kiev covering the crisis for Irish national broadcaster RTE, reported about the development of events. As a fixer I was arranging interviews and getting necessary contacts in Kyiv and in Crimea during the process of annexation (february - march 2014)
Simon, 23, born in Russia and grew up in Germany. For more than half a year he has been fighting on the Eastern Ukrainian front on the side of pro-Russian separatists. "I'll stay until death," he says fiercely, but the doubts gnaw at him. A report by Brenda Weinel and Matthias Zuber from the war zone. As a fixer I arranged all necessary permits and interviews for the documentary
Produced for BBC
As Ukraine moves closer to civil war, reporter Paul Kenyon spends weeks with balaclava-wearing separatists, as they seize towns and fight for a breakaway republic. He follows men who've become some of the most powerful in the conflict. As a fixer I was arranging all necessary contacts and permits.
Produced for VPRO
In eight episodes Jelle Brandt Corstius travels through Russia and his border countries Moldova, Latvia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. A series of propaganda and own identity. As a fixer I helped Jelle to film in Kiev, Odessa and Lviv and to get to the territories under rebels (Donetsk).
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