Zarina Zabrisky

Zarina Zabrisky is a U.S. journalist reporting from the frontlines in Ukraine as a war correspondent for Byline Times (UK) and Euromaidan Press (UA). She has contributed to BBC News, Voice of America, TVP World, The Sunday Post, Times of India, and more. In 2023, she co-produced and starred in the award-winning documentary Under the Deadly Skies, exposing Russian war crimes. In 2025, Zabrisky directed a full-length documentary Kherson: Human Safari, now endorsed by the Kherson Military Administration, the official media of the Office of the President of Ukraine, and the Naval Forces of Ukraine. For her journalism, she has been sanctioned by the Russian Federation.

Zabrisky is an award-winning author of five books and a member of PEN America. Her literary work appeared in The Paris Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Longreads, Guernica, Rumpus, and more. 

Born in the USSR and having spent most of her life in the US, Zabrisky moved to Ukraine after the full-scale Russian invasion.