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This week's episode from The Silo is a foreign office with Michael Weiss and James

Rushton on reporting from the front lines of Ukraine. We hope you enjoy. Hi and welcome back to Foreign Office I'm Michael Weiss

director of special investigations at the Free Russia Foundation and senior

correspondent at Yahoo News and speaking of Yahoo News I am joined this week by my friend and partner in crime James

Rushton.

He and I have been writing together for the better part of a year now.

Mostly, in fact, I would say almost exclusively on the war in Ukraine and James, as readers of

our work, would know, lives in Kyiv, where for the past month Russia has conducted what I think

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