On February 4, 2026, The Washington Post's Ukraine correspondent, Lizzie Johnson, announced on X that she had been laid off, via email, "in the middle of a warzone"-left behind in Kyiv by a ruthless wave of layoffs at the Jeff Bezos-owned paper.

An Elegy for the Foreign Correspondent
Sean Byrnes, The New Republic·RealClearPolitics··1 min read
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