PODCAST: Time of Tears, for the World to Hear
Plus: Endless February, the story of Ukrainian Freedom News
“Of course I don’t want to talk about that sh*t, I don’t want, I don’t want to talk with anyone about that, but also at the same moment I want the whole world to know that sh*t I’m looking at.”
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Daily Situation Summary: Shelling in Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Nikopol
by PAVLO VITENKO
In Zaporizhzhia, the occupiers are fleeing the war, 60 deserters are known — Regional Military Administration
"Ahead - a difficult path": Zelensky thanked Ukrainians who did not go abroad
A register of oligarchs has already been created in Ukraine, but no one has been added to it yet — Danilov
The Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal visited the Chernihiv region and noted that the towns and villages that suffered from the Russian military are gradually returning to normal life.
LUHANSK REGION
The enemy does not stop air and artillery pressure in the areas of the administrative borders of the regions. In particular, along Verkhnokamyanskyi and Bilohorivka. In total, four missiles and two air strikes were carried out during the day.
The occupiers' artillery also did not stop destroying these and nearby settlements - they used this type of weapon 13 times in the direction of peaceful dwellings. The activity of enemy Subversive and reconnaissance group increased.
And speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davis, Henry Kissinger, the 98 year-old former US Secretary of State, said that Ukraine needs to negotiate with Russia and give up some of its territory, in response to the Russian assaults on Ukrainian cities and villages.
DONETSK REGION
The Russian occupation army does not stop shelling the populated areas of Donetsk region - Avdiivka (residential sector, area of the church, garden society and the House of Culture), Krasnohorivka (residential sector), Toretsk (residential sector), Bakhmut (residential sector).
In the morning - missile strikes on Kostyantynivka, Kramatorsk, New York. Residential buildings and infrastructure were destroyed, there are wounded among civilians, the information is being clarified. Four people died and eight were injured in a day in the region. …
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Podcast: Time of Tears; Too Much Emotion to Say Any Word to Anyone
“Of course I don’t want to talk about that sh*t, I don’t want, I don’t want to talk with anyone about that, but also at the same moment I want the whole world to know that sh*t I’m looking at.”
Here's today's episode of our Near-Daily War Journal with Ukrainian Zakhar Pikh and American Joe Lindsley. There's some moments of silence and “little bit crying” to show you the reality of these war-time talks.
🔺 Stories of tears from Chernihiv, Odesa, Nikopol
🔺 "And in that moment when she said that, she started to cry ... "
🔺Story of a couple who opened their dream coffee shop in war time because they don’t know how much time they have left
🔺”In war every single day is a week, a month, a year … “
🔺”Are you ok?” “I’m f-ing perfect.”
Also on Spotify (except in Ukraine, where Spotify doesn’t allow podcasts):
UKRAINIAN FREEDOM NEWS - STORY OF THE WAR: Day 22 / FEBRUARY 46TH: MAD CITY IN RESISTANCE HQ
“These are just notes about freedom. I wish you had the time to read them.” —Swedish band Act I
Names changed.
WHEN THE American and British fighters came to our news bunker office, I gave the guy who was born in Mexico some of that tequila Serhii had brought from Guadalajara. Not only was this rare stuff, only available in Jalisco but alcohol sales were illegal in Lviv, so this was rare stuff, which is why I thought it fitting to give to three warriors who had just been in the trenches outside of Kyiv.
The Mexican, who was also American, was so f*****g happy. Taking the tequila, he looked around at the scene, the thick stone walls, the laptops, the coffee mugs, the icon of The Dude on a parchment made from an American Afghanistan uniform, and said, 'holy sh*t, this is the resistance, like in a movie.’
With the drinks, they told us stories. The Mexican, a Marine, who'd seen battle in Afghanistan, said the trench fighting outside of Kyiv was like nothing he'd ever seen, but rather more like what he'd read in stories of World War I. And of the courage of the Ukrainians: "I've only encountered that in Hemingway."
Over tequila, he told me how after five days of fighting, the Ukrainian officials seemingly suspected there was a mole in the foreign unit fighting alongside the Ukrainians and the Ukrainian-Georgian unit, so suddenly they were ordered away from the front lines back to Lviv. Through a mutual friend, the mysterious Mr. R, they’d heard about us, and I agreed to house them until they found their next mission.
Story continued here.
🎙🎙🎙 WGN Radio: Ukrainian Access to Long-Range Weapons, Plus the Psychology of Air-Alarms
Joe Lindsley of Ukrainian Freedom News speaks in a daily report with Bob Sirott of Chicago’s WGN Radio. You can listen here.
