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Hello and welcome to angry planet.

I am Matthew Galt.

Jason Fields is taking a powder.

Ukraine's counter-offensive is well underway.

One of the best places to get stories and reporting about

what's happening is counter-offensive dot news a sub-stack run by former US

Army medic and former NPR Investigative journalist Tim Mack. He's here with us today to talk about the war, the

counter-offensive, and the charms of Ukraine. Sir, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you so much. And I'm wowed by the charms of Matthew Galls as well here with that with that generous intro.

Thank you so much. So I really, I heard you on another podcast and I started reading your stuff and I was really blown away by it.

It reminds me of a lot of some of the best war correspondence that I remember from like Syria and from Iraq and

from some of some friends I've got it's very people focused and I don't read a whole lot of that from the major publications these days.

Was that kind of, can you tell us the story about like how this thing got started and kind of what your goals and ambitions were and what you set out to do?

Well look we're just we're a month and a half old right but the focus of counteroffensive. News has been to get away from the same kinds of journalism that other outlets and are doing.

And what we focus on is human interest narrative journalism and what does that mean.

That means we see the news through the perspective of a person rather than through the event itself.

I'll give you an example to make it a little bit more real.

When, you know, there's a counter-offensive underway right now and a lot of that fighting is happening in a place

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