Interview From The Front Line: Inna Sovsun
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
A member of Ukraine's Parliament, professor, and mother, Inna Sovsun, joins SmartHER News to tell us what life is like during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the Heartland. My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News, news when it matters and why it matters. |
| 0:10.4 | Our Smarter series features unique people who help us think and live smarter. |
| 0:18.5 | Hi, everybody. It is the second day of March, 2022. And the world is just changing so fast. I think |
| 0:26.3 | it's appropriate to timestamp when I'm actually recording this for you because we could see |
| 0:30.8 | a flurry of headlines that could take our stories, the many stories that we're watching |
| 0:35.2 | in a lot of different directions. I wanted to jump on real quick before this interview to talk to you a little bit about how it |
| 0:40.8 | came about. In fact, it was one of you that reached out to me and said, hey, I think you should |
| 0:45.1 | speak to this lawmaker in Ukraine. And you sent a picture of Ina Sofson sitting with her laptop |
| 0:52.1 | on a wood floor next to a gun. And I looked at that picture and I |
| 0:57.5 | thought, hmm, I'm going to need to know a little bit more about that. And as I dug into a little bit |
| 1:03.1 | more about I found out that not only is she a parliamentarian in the Ukrainian government, she's also |
| 1:10.0 | a professor. She's also a mother. And you make the best |
| 1:15.2 | producers, hands down. And your suggestions really mean a lot to me. I actually reached out to |
| 1:20.0 | I directly and was able to connect with her. And that's how we were able to pull this interview together. |
| 1:25.1 | It's really a tribute to you and to this community of smarter news. So I just want to reiterate how grateful I am for your support and how much |
| 1:31.7 | you mean to actually building a solution in news. This is a very interesting situation covering |
| 1:37.3 | this story, this war in Ukraine without having a lot of experience on the ground at all or really having a complete |
| 1:46.0 | understanding of the way that the Ukrainian government works. And I want to be really honest with |
| 1:50.4 | you about that because I haven't dug deep into the way that this new Ukrainian government is |
| 1:55.1 | working and the different roles and the different parties and how it's all coming together. |
| 2:00.5 | And listen, just think of |
| 2:01.7 | yourself parachuting. If you were an alien parachuting into Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. |
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