Yulia Abibok has studied journalism and history/Jewish studies in Ukraine (National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy) and Austria (Central European University) and has worked as a writer and researcher. She has been a parliamentary correspondent in Ukraine and covered Ukrainian regional policy, post-Soviet transformations, and organised crime, but since 2014, her focus has been territorial and interethnic conflicts, mass violence, forced migration, and their social impact. She has reported from conflict zones in her home region of Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine, as well as in Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. She has been a research fellow at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) in Warsaw, Poland; Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria; WZB Berlin Social Science Centre, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies.