This is Popular Front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're talking to journalist Anastasia

La Patina. She's from Ukraine she's been documenting the situation with the

war specifically looking into the situation with the war specifically looking into the situation with

refugees civilians being killed in the midst of the Russian invasion now the

Russian invasion the war in Ukraine has been going on for a month. We're going to talk to Anastasia and find

out what the situation is right now on the ground. If you like what we're doing here at Popular Front, please do consider supporting us at

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Co slash support now as a couple of days ago the war in Ukraine was is now a month old

essentially Russia's invasion of the country and war on it is now a month old I

was hoping you can just kind of give us a brief idea at the top of

what the situation is like now in Ukraine. We've seen all the footage, it's horrific,

children are dying, cities are being flattened, but just give us an idea of, you know, the kind of feeling in Ukraine right now where it's at.

Well, the very, very general feeling is that, of course,

the Russian offensive isn't going as well as they planned, nearly not as well as they planned.

They are not really having any huge success in any of the directions that are trying to kind of

occupy the country so the only the only really catastrophic situations are in Maripul and then of course there has also been a lot of destruction in the east

so along the the front line that we've had since 2014 and with the occupied territories of Dun bus there there have been a few

towns that have been occupied then there has been the time the little village of

Bonavaja that's just been completely raced to the ground.

Pretty much everyone has been evacuated. All houses destroyed. Really horrific, really heartbreaking stuff.

And then really heartbreaking stuff and then the only real success has been in her son as well if you can even call it that because the Russians technically

occupied the country but then sorry occupied the country, but then, sorry, not the country, the Russians technically occupied the city.

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