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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

On the Ground With a Ukrainian Journalist

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

What it’s been like for one Ukrainian-American journalist to cover the Russian attack on his homeland: “The first couple of days of the war, I threw myself into work, and then after that, I couldn't function for a day or two. And I quickly figured out that if I keep working, then I have to abstract it on some level.” Guest: Romeo Kokriatski, managing editor of The New Voice of Ukraine and co-host of the podcast Ukraine Without Hype. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There's gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike. It

0:36.8

was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was

0:41.6

all wrapped up, it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike

0:45.0

and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so guest. For that was a life changer and I'm

0:48.7

still sort of big on cycling around my area now, so for that one, change me a little.

0:53.5

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1:00.5

Romeo Cokatsky doesn't know quite how to answer the first question people ask him these

1:11.8

days. Even though it's about as simple as they come, how are you?

1:17.8

To be honest, I've been asked that question so many times. It's gone hard to keep track

1:23.2

of what my mood is at your point.

1:30.4

Romeo lives in Ukraine. He used to live in the capital, Kiev. He fled a few days back.

1:36.3

Now he's staying in the country in a house his grandfather built decades ago. It's pretty

1:40.9

quiet there, but it's not completely out of the war zone.

1:46.6

Like there were a couple of missile strikes against one of the local airports or against

1:52.5

the local airport, I should say a few days ago, but the airports outside of the city and

2:00.7

to be honest, everyone was kind of expecting that airport to be hit anyway, so it wasn't

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