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 speak to journalist and documentary filmmaker Conall Keani. You might know him as

Coco Bongo, very good friend of mine, been with us from day one. He is out on the front lines

in Ukraine almost permanently, to be honest. When he's not there, he's in Kiev. He is the

guy you need to talk to if you want to get an idea of what is actually happening out there on the front lines.

And that's exactly what he's going to do today.

An update on what is becoming a brutally prolonged war.

Support us at patreon.com slash popular front. We haven't really heard that much about what's happening in Ukraine from kind of legacy media, if you like,

unless it's talking about what Trump has said,

what Putin has said, blah, blah, blah.

What I'm interested in is what's actually happening on the ground there.

You spend a lot of time out there on the front lines, working, filming,

taking photos, reporting.

What is your experience at the moment?

What is the situation like out there on the front?

I mean, I'm not going to bullshit, you know, I'm going to get straight into it.

The situation is pretty grim.

And anyone who's spent any time on the ground recently will completely confirm that, especially

soldiers.

And as you said, it's not really in the mainstream media these days or in the West spoke

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