Joe Lauria Interviews Ukrainian Poet from Lviv, Irina Starovoyt at PEN International Writers for Peace Conference, 2022

It was interesting to get this Ukrainian writer’s take on recent events. Since she still lives in Ukraine, I wonder how much she feels she has to watch what she says. She spoke naturally, however, so I tend to think she was probably saying what she really thought. I found it interesting, among other things, how she claimed to not be aware of the infamous phone call between Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt a couple of weeks prior to the 2014 coup.