Hello and welcome to the battleground podcast with me Saul David and Patrick Bishop.

Today we're talking to American journalist and friend of the podcast, Joe

Lindsley, who's been living and reporting from the Ukraine since before the start of the

full-scale invasion. Yeah, well, Saul, Patrick, James, great to see you guys. Hello from Kiev.

And, you know, last time we talked, I can't quite remember, maybe it was over a year ago.

I have still been in Ukraine every single week, every single day of the full-scale invasion.

And every weekday, for nearly a thousand days, it will be a thousand days this coming week.

I have made a 10-minute live report on Chicago's WGN radio.

I'm very grateful to WN.

They are the only foreign media that has had a live broadcast from Ukraine every single day, every weekday.

And so we've kept it up to thick and thin as I travel around the country.

What's really interesting is that the audience can tell when I'm in a particularly, they can hear the emotions in my voice.

They can tell when things are more difficult and bleak here.

And, you know, I will say since the election of Trump, there's been a new mood in

Keith.

There's actually a little bit of a brightness here, which we can talk about, and because

things are pretty bleak and people are getting quite depressed the past few months.

So I'm happy to share stories about that.

I spent a lot of time the past months in Harkiv, in Odessa, in other places traveling around the country.

And, you know, my mission in my storytelling on WGN Radio is to keep Ukraine in the consciousness

and to make people feel like they're here every single day. So I welcome

people. You can follow along. We post those reports at J.P. Lindsley on X and Instagram and YouTube

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