68. 'People like me'

Battleground

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4.6 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Joining Patrick and Saul for this week's big interview is Belgian journalist - Arnaud De Decker, Arnaud has been reporting from Ukraine for over a year now and has been right up to the front lines, including Bakhmut. He tells us about his close call with a missile strike in Kramatorsk, the changes in the public attitude towards the war in different parts of Ukraine, and more. You can check out his work on his social media accounts: Instagram - arnaud.dedecker Twitter - @arnauddedecker If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson Twitter: @PodBattleground Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:19.0	Today we're talking to a remarkable 26-year-old Belgian journalist called Arno Dredeca.
1:25.4	He was born and raised in Brussels, the city that partially shaped him
1:28.5	to who he is today and where he still lives.
1:31.3	His work is mostly published in Dutch,
1:33.3	but he's also fluent in English
1:35.0	and has notions of Spanish.
1:37.3	And most interestingly, of course,
1:38.7	for our interview,
1:39.9	he's been reporting from Ukraine for more than a year
1:43.4	and was recently caught up in the deadly missile strike in Kramatose.
1:48.7	Arno, welcome to the podcast.
1:50.6	Can you tell us a little bit about your reporting from Ukraine?
1:54.0	When did you first go to the country?
1:56.2	And what have you seen since then?
1:58.4	Absolutely.
1:58.8	So my first time in Ukraine was in February 22, so before the war.
2:05.4	I was here for about three weeks. And then the war, well, the invasion of Ukraine started. And I stayed maybe
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