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Near-Daily War Journal Podcast: A Musician Who Lost Both His Homes—His City and His Music Club
Here's today's episode of our Near-Daily War Journal with Ukrainian Yuriy Sadoviy, who owned the LV Café jazz club in Lviv and American journalist Joe Lindsley.
Topics:
—How politely to describe situation when “unwise people are surrounding you” —“Personally I’m complaining a lot. It’s a traditional way of living in Lviv.”
—“It was the most terrible morning the day after the war started”
—The story of the Mariupol musician who told Yura, the day the jazz club closed, that he had now lost both of his homes: his city and his music club.
Also on Spotify (except in Ukraine, where Spotify doesn’t allow podcasts):
Daily Situation Summary, 27 July: Boris Johnson, a Contender to be Next NATO Leader, Gives Zelenskyi the Churchill Award
by PAVLO VITENKO
Summary by Oblasts (regions)
LUHANSK REGION
The Russians once again resorted to missile terror, shelling populated areas twice. Two more times they carried out artillery fire, and also involved mortars. Drones were used repeatedly. The Armed Forces of Ukraine stopped the Russians' assault in six areas. The occupiers were forced to leave, in particular, in the Verkhnokamyanske district.
DONETSK REGION
During the day, Soledar, Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Siversk, the village of Vesele, the village of Opytne, and the village of Pervomaiske were shelled. During the night and morning, the Russians shelled Hirnyk, the village of Kurakhivka, and the village of Hostryi; village of Yablunivka, Kramatorsk district. In Bakhmut, as a result of shelling, a hotel and other buildings were damaged, according to preliminary information, there are victims.
Intensive shelling of Krasnohorivka continues. The region remains without gas and partly without water and electricity. Evacuation of the population continues. In one day, one person was killed and one was injured in the Donetsk region.
DNIPROPETROVSK REGION
The enemy fired again in the Nikopol and Kryvyi Rih districts. In the Nikopol district, the city of Marganets was hit by the "Hrad". One woman was injured and hospitalized. In the city, eight five-story buildings, a hospital, a kindergarten, several shopping stalls and the transport of an industrial enterprise were damaged.
Read the full report at Ukrainian Freedom News, including about Zelenskiy’s Churchill Award and Boris Johnson’s NATO prospects.
Why Do Ukrainians Call the Invading Russians ‘Orcs’? Because They Now Live in a Genuine Epic of Good vs Evil
by JOE LINDSLEY
"These are just notes about freedom. I wish you had the time to read them." —Swedish band Act II
Did you know Ukrainians call Russians "orcs," the monstrous agents of Mordor's evil in Tolkien's stories?
Maybe such plots and stories help us know what to do when the time comes.
As Amazon Prime prepares to air a TV show based on JRR Tolkien's Hobbit, orcs, elves, and shire stories, it's a reminder that in Ukraine people actually and commonly call the Russian invaders orcs and Moscow "Mordor." It's a real life Tolkien drama between good and evil.
Or maybe that's what Tolkien was portraying so well in his books: the real fight between good and evil and all the struggles of the good people to stay in the fight, to keep themselves.
The whole world is of course paying attention to Ukraine. So while many around the world, from Comic Con and beyond, are captivated by this massive billion-dollar Lord of the Rings TV show from Amazon, know that the same sort of fight, shire-dwellers vs monstrous orcs, is actually happening, in real-life.
Maybe such plots and stories help us know what to do when the time comes.
Story about The Rings of Power show, from the BBC.
🎙🎙🎙 Chicago WGN Radio Daily Ukraine Report: Russian restricts gas flow
Joe Lindsley of Ukrainian Freedom News speaks in a daily report with Bob Sirott of Chicago’s WGN Radio. You can listen here:
”The EU, which received 40% of its gas from Russia last year, has also accused Russia of using energy as a weapon. Of course the Russians use energy and food as weapons. They want to win. They will use whatever they can.
”I think European officials, living in a fairy land, forget this. ‘Oh you can’t use energy as a weapon.’ Ok but you can kill children in shopping centers? You can shoot grannies in their flats with your tanks? What’s the difference, really? It’s war. War without honour.
“Anyone who scoffs at Russia using energy as a weapon doesn’t understand what is happening, doesn’t really seem to care about the tragedies in Mariupol, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Irpin, Bucha.”
Here’s a Ukrainian Song For You:
“У мене немає дому” / “I have no home” by Lviv band Oden v Kanoe (One in the Canoe), referenced in the podcast above