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Apply with £100,000 annual income or £100,000 savings or investments with HSBC UK or Premier status abroad. Hello and welcome to the Battleground Ukraine podcast Big Interview.

Today we're talking to veteran war reporter Philip Itner, who worked for CBS News for 15 years and is now a freelance.

Bill speaks Russian and covered the rise of Putin in 2000, the invasion of Georgia in 2008, and now the war in Ukraine.

This is what he told us.

Phil, welcome to the podcast.

Can you tell us where you are now and what you've been up to recently?

I am currently in the capital

of Ukraine, Kiev, and have been in country in Ukraine, except for a short stint when I had to go

back to the States since the beginning of the war. Now, I started in Leviv before we kind of, I mean,

the first week of the war, I was, I crossed over, I flew from San Francisco and flew to Warsaw, got on a train to Krakow, got in a taxi from Krakow, and drove across.

And that was the first week of the war.

When we couldn't predict how it was going to go.

So I decided to go as far as Lviv, so that I could be inside Ukraine. But until we knew what was going to go. So I decided to go as far as Leviv so that I could be inside Ukraine.

But until we knew what was going to happen in the battle for Kiev, that was as far as I was going

to go. And I lived in Leviv for the first, I'd say, roughly three months of the war.

Then I moved here and have been as I can moving around the country with colleagues and, you know, we're all kind of

freelancing. We're all kind of doing our own thing. So we kind of, you know, bandy together. And,

you know, I have been mostly vlogging, doing podcasts, radio stuff. I'm a, I'm a veteran broadcast

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