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What Next: On the Ground With a Ukrainian Journalist

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 25 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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0:00.0

Between forgetting the sellotape,

0:01.6

trying to squeeze eight people around a six-seater table

0:04.1

and the cat taking down the tree.

0:06.1

Again!

0:08.1

Christmas can be tricky.

0:10.4

At least with Royal Mail, sending parcels is easy.

0:13.6

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0:16.3

and will collect from your door for zero pounds.

0:18.6

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0:21.4

just click, save and will collect.

0:23.6

Visit RoyalMail.com forward slash send.

0:26.5

Simple, offer in 31st December for details online.

0:31.6

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses.

0:37.1

I love walking with the dog for long periods of time,

0:40.1

hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm.

0:42.5

So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

0:44.8

because like you're wrapped up so warm,

0:46.4

but then you're climbing hampsed and heath

0:48.6

and you get to the top and you're like,

0:50.3

and then you can see the breath,

0:51.6

but then your nose is still freezing to top.

0:54.6

Join in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

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