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Experienced Ukraine media fixer and local producer Maria Lebedieva has been supporting international media teams in Ukraine since 2014. Based in Kyiv, she specializes in warzone coverage, news reporting, and documentary production across central, eastern, and southern regions of Ukraine, providing comprehensive fixerʼs services including logistics, translation, and research support. With over a decade of proven expertise, Maria has collaborated with premier global media outlets including: BBC Documentary(2021, 2023), Al Jazeera Balkans (10-year partnership), CBC News, Vice News, TRT, RAI, AJA, The Economist (Documentary), The Wall Street Journal, Dagens ETC, Dagbladet and other media outlets. As a professional Ukrainian fixer and producer, Maria delivers full-service support for news reporting, documentary filmmaking, and investigative journalism. She also creates podcast series for Ukrainian media, focusing on war crimes investigations, psychological impact of war, and social issues - demonstrating deep expertise in local context and current developments in Ukraine. Maria offers complete transportation solutions with a personal vehicle (Suzuki SX4), ensuring efficient mobility for media teams throughout Ukraine (or can be a driver with a rental car, depends on the area). Her decade-long experience as a local producer and fixer in Ukraine's conflict zones since 2014 guarantees professional support for international media coverage of the ongoing war.
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Producer of one of the episodes: an interview with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, the Head of the President's Office Andriy Yermak, and the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (at that time) Oleksiy Danilov
The first days after the deoccupation of Bucha in 2022. Massive destruction, bodies in the streets, burned corpses of Russian soldiers. Nothing has been cleaned up yet, and everything is exactly as it was left after the Russians.CBC journalists were among the first to be allowed into the deoccupied territory. Report from Bucha.
