Memes, social media and life in Kyiv: interview with Oleksandra Povoroznyk
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Day 135.
Today, we analyse the latest updates from the battlefront, ask how Boris Johnson’s resignation is being received in Ukraine and we talk to Kyiv based journalist and translator Oleksandra Povoroznyk about life in Ukraine, social media and the meme-war against the Russian invasion.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host)
Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Reporter)
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor)
With thanks to Oleksandra Povoroznyk.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
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| 0:07.0 | Hi, Tony Diabe here, the telegraphs us editor at Washington, DC. |
| 0:13.8 | I've launched a new free-to-read newsletter from the US Editor, featuring inside from |
| 0:18.6 | our correspondence around the world, and fore-provoking opinion from leading journalists and both |
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| 0:27.6 | visit Telegraph.co.uk forward slash from the US editor to sign up. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm David Nalls and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today, we analyze the latest updates from the |
| 0:44.7 | battlefront, ask how Boris Johnson's resignation is being received in Ukraine. And we talk to |
| 0:49.6 | Kiev-based journalist and translator, Oleksandr Povoroznik, about life in Ukraine, |
| 0:54.0 | social media and the meme war against the Russian invasion. |
| 1:07.0 | Nobody is going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 1:13.1 | Every week day afternoon, we sit down with leaving journalists from the Telegraph's London |
| 1:16.5 | Newsroom and our teams reporting on the ground to bringing the latest news and analysis |
| 1:20.9 | on the war in Ukraine. It's Friday, the 8th July, day 135. And today, I'm joined by the |
| 1:29.2 | Telegraph senior foreign correspondent, Roland Olethant, assistant comment editor, Francis |
| 1:33.3 | Ternley and our guest, journalist and translator, Oleksandr Povoroznik. Dom Nichols is away. |
| 1:41.9 | I started by asking Francis and Roland for the major updates from the battlefront in Ukraine. |
| 1:47.3 | The kind of big question is whether or not the Russians have stopped advancing. So the |
| 1:52.1 | Institute for the Study of War, which is a US think tank, which is kind of what's going on, noted |
| 1:58.0 | yesterday that the Russians didn't seem to have either advanced or claimed in advance or |
| 2:04.5 | assessed to have taken any land for the first time since the war began. And their interpretation |
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