Voice notes from Ukraine

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Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

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4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Before the war, Vladimir was a film producer and Yuriy was a journalist. Daria works in marketing, Andrii is a musician, and Anna is a human resources manager for an IT company. This week we asked five Ukrainians to send us some voice messages, documenting their thoughts and feelings since the world turned upside down on February 24. You can donate to the International Committee of the Red Cross's Ukraine appeal here. Many thanks to Daria Barakhta, Andrii Kovalov, Yuriy Matsarsky, Anna Tolstaia, and Vladimir Yatsenko for sharing their thoughts with us. Vladimir continues to film footage of the war; you can follow his posts here. This episode was produced by Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak, with editorial help from Katz Laszlo. Sound design by Wojciech Oleksiak. Music by Jazzpospolita and Jim Barne. Thanks for listening. If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few euros / dollars / pounds a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast. You can also help new listeners find the show by leaving us a review or giving us five stars on Spotify. This podcast is part of the Are We Europe family. Find more like-minded European podcasts at areweeurope.com/audio-family. Twitter | Instagram | [email protected]

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0:00.0	Hey, Listeners, it's Katie.
0:23.4	Dominic is away this week. He's singing in the middle of nowhere.
0:26.6	So instead of our usual show, we wanted to bring you some voice messages from friends and friends of friends in Ukraine.
0:34.1	Not many of you will know this, but this podcast was actually born from a series of voice memos,
0:38.8	a long exchange of WhatsApp voice messages between Dominic and me trying to work out how to make
0:44.7	a podcast about Europe. And we still use voice notes fairly often in our team to share our thoughts
0:50.3	and feelings about all kinds of things between Paris and Amsterdam and Warsaw.
0:58.9	It can be comforting sometimes to hear a friend's voice instead of just reading their words on a screen. So this week you're going to hear from a few different people who sent his voice
1:03.2	notes via telegram and WhatsApp from different parts of Ukraine. Vladimir was a film producer
1:08.6	until recently. He's now fighting outside Kiev.
1:11.6	The same goes for Yuri, a journalist who suddenly found himself trying to adapt to life as a soldier.
1:17.6	You're also going to hear from Daria. She's 25. She works in marketing.
1:21.6	She lives in Harkev, a city that lots of people have left because of terrible fighting there.
1:26.6	Daria is still there
1:27.9	for now. There's Anna, a human resources manager, and Andrew, a musician. They are people our own age
1:35.2	who woke up one morning to find that their lives have been turned upside down. So you're going to hear
1:40.4	a few different voices. It is a snapshot of a few people's lives right now and the thoughts and feelings about what's happening.
1:47.2	That's it for me.
1:48.2	I'll be back at the end with a little update
1:49.6	about what's coming up over the next couple of weeks.
1:57.1	Hello.
1:58.3	My name is Vladimir Yzenka.
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