This is the Popular Front podcast with me Jake Hanrahan.

We're focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict

all across the world. Popular Front is

completely independent. Today we're speaking to researcher and

reporter Neil Howard. He's going to be talking to us about the situation out on the front lines in East Ukraine.

Things out there have fallen out of the news a little bit, but the situation is not really getting much better

various strategic areas have fallen to the invading Russian forces. Neil has been

out there on the front lines he's going to talk to us and

tell us what's going on on the ground. If you like what we're doing here at

Popular Front, support us at Patreon. Patreon.com. So you've been out there on the front.

So you've been out there on the front lines in East Ukraine. Things are kind of, there's a lot less

reporting out there at the moment, but as I know as you know obviously out there there's a lot of

stuff going on maybe just give us an idea what what were you reporting on your

last trip what did you see out there yeah so this last trip I was out there and I was mostly in Kupyansk area up in the northeast part of the front

there.

And I mean, I think the conditions, you know, they're not great, but they're a little bit better

than other areas you know especially

could sit compared to Donbass where people are never happy but now or less happy and I mean

I think it just in general I got a lot from the difference in the mood

Compared to that because we just had the second anniversary of the invasion and so compared to the first one it's definitely

Darker I mean, there's been less successes.

There's more causes for concern.

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