Life in Ukraine, 6 months into the war

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

News, On Point, Npr, Talk Show, Daily

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It’s Independence Day in Ukraine.

Official celebrations have been canceled. But the fact that there’s an independent Ukraine at all is celebration enough for Ukrainians.

President Zelenskyy is vowing to fight on. What lies ahead for Ukraine? Tanya Kozyreva, Michael Kofman and Olga Ivshina join Kimberly Atkins Stohr.

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0:28.3	This is on point.
0:30.4	Six months ago today, Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.
0:34.8	Today is also Ukrainian Independence Day.
0:38.3	The usual parade down Kees main boulevard has been replaced with a column of burned out Russian tanks
0:45.4	brought in especially for the occasion.
0:48.1	A symbol of Ukraine's battlefield successes and to the brutality of this horrible war.
0:54.6	President Zelensky's Independence Day speech was given not before a crowd in Central Square,
1:00.6	but in a pre-produced video on YouTube.
1:16.9	The free people of independent Ukraine, Zelensky declared, then went on to say, quote,
1:22.7	that says it all, just four words, but how much is behind them today?
1:27.9	On the 182nd day of a full-scale war, how many symbols and meanings, feats and losses,
1:35.6	joy and pain are in these words?
1:38.2	And mainly, how much truth is in them?
1:41.0	Our truth.
1:42.1	End quote.
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