I didn't consider possible service in the KGB as a way to protect someone. I probably understood that once I got into that system, I wouldn't be able… - Andrii Kulykov

Well, radio, and I have seen this with my own eyes and heard this with my own ears when I was in those areas [the war zone], radio sometimes is the only available means of getting information when you are close to the front line or other areas devastated by war or by some other disaster. You cannot get television service there, the internet does not work, and telephone is really dangerous because you can aim your rockets according to the telephone signal. And then there’s radio, which reaches far and deep, and which people tend to listen to.

I do not see citizen journalism as a separate branch of journalism. I do not actually wish to juxtapose professional journalism and citizens. There is good journalism and bad journalism. Sometimes in the so-called citizen journalism, you find brilliant examples of journalism, and the same in the so-called professional journalism — you find a lot of trash.

In spring of 2013, three different people came to me within three days and said that they could not work in their media outlets any longer for various reasons — being pressurized and being told to do what they did not want to do. They asked, "What shall we do?" I said, "But of course, we should found our own radio." So we started for several reasons. First, it is cheap — it is so cheap to found a radio. We actually took out something like 300 to 400 hryvnias, which was, of course, a pittance — something like 40 to 50 dollars at that time. Everyone took from their pockets. We bought our first recorders, bought our first legal software — because we wanted to be irreproachable — and we started the radio.