Exactly a year ago, on a similar scorching June day, I interviewed the editor of The Kyiv Independent, 34-year-old Olga Rudenko, and her CEO, Daryna Shevchenko, at the Founders Forum tech conference in Soho House, Oxfordshire. The luxury of our surroundings made only starker the separation between what was happening to them in Ukraine and the sheltered lives of those attending.
Their English-speaking digital news organisation had only launched a few months before, but as Russian forces tried to advance on Kyiv that February, they soon gained millions of followers.
