This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to journalist

Sergy Slipchenko is also a personal friend of mine I've just been out there

working with him in Ukraine literally four days ago.

Now Russia has invaded Ukraine. They've hit the country from every border, all different directions.

They're hitting civilian targets as well. It's a very

bad situation. Sergy's literally had to just flee his home but he hit me up and was

like let's do this, let's talk about what's going on on the ground. So thank you

very much to

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So how's the situation? I mean pretty serious I think more than what anyone expected.

Yeah, yeah.

So it's looking like the worst has happened.

Russia has launched a full-on invasion into Ukraine. Can you just kind of talk us through, you know, what

happened, how it happened from what you know? Yeah, so basically I think it was 5 a.m. Key of time

when Putin announced the

for what he called it like a special operation in Ukraine

after that shortly

several military points were struck throughout Ukraine from Ivanovrancis in the west all the way to

Jessa in the south, the Port City, and then Kyiv I think Khad Kyiv

Chenihu it's the budget of cities were hit again with missile or airstrikes

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