Right Now, Night Attack on Kharkiv
War Verifies: Which Side Are You On?
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Joe Lindsley reporting from KHARKIV, UKRAINE, with a team from throughout the country …
War Day 358: The Wild Souls at the Edge of the Free World
from Thursday 16 February: My daily Ukraine report on Chicago's WGN Radio with Bob Sirott
From 2-4am in the early hours of Thursday, Russia pounded Ukraine from east to west with missiles, including the sinister K-22 missiles, designed to destroy aircraft carriers but used against Ukrainian homes and power stations.
Without more advanced anti-aircraft systems, they are near impossible to shoot down, Ukrainian authorities say. What is Russia doing?
Meanwhile, I speak about the psychological toll of the war, the madness of frequent missile strikes in a place where sometimes the rockets hit before the air-raid alarm can sound. Some have asked what I am doing here or if I need a break. Indeed I probably sound tired, worn out but still-going. That's the goal of true empathic reporting: showing the world the real feelings on the ground far away.
And here in Kharkiv I have met wild, noble people from all over the world willing to risk their lives for freedom and dignity. When I stay at the fancier hotels in the east of Ukraine, I meet journalists and UN and NGO people and they are certainly brave, but when I stay at the less expensive places, I meet those wild souls, the foreign soldiers, the volunteer medics, the people who get no glory in the media unless they die, the folks who have no massive group to protect them.
Like the famed Wild Geese, the Irish freedom fighters who traveled the world, these wild souls, free, fierce, some soldiers, some humanitarian, a few both: They stand taller than all the preening politicians from throughout the world.
And then late in the night, the same day, around 23:00 16 February, the Russians struck Kharkiv again. Thud, Thud—in the centre, incredibly loud. Listen here:
War Verifies: Which Side Are You On?
An American, a Pole, and a Ukrainian Talk About the Fight for Freedom
Speaking with Michal Rachon of Poland's TVP World Channel, American Joe Lindsley and Ukrainian Michael Poperechnyuk, explain Ukraine's fight for freedom and decency. Michael, from Nikopol, which the Russians shell constantly, says that Ukrainians are the "bodyguards of the free world."
Joe, reporting from Kharkiv, the edge of the free world, 30 miles from Russia, says Zelenskiy's London speech puts the issue most clearly: Will we be courageous or afraid in the face of expanding evil?
“Pete’s Dead”: Here’s the Harrowing Account of the Russian Missile Strike on Medical Volunteers in Bakhmut
War Day 345: Singers, Medics, Soldiers Cry ... and Sing—in a café at the edge of the free world
by Joe Lindsley
Today, the New York Times shared the story of the Russian rocket that seemed to deliberately and accurately target medical evacuation volunteers. The strike killed Dr. Peter Robeson Reed, a U.S. Marine vet and a medical doctor, and wounded my friend, an American nurse in her 20s from Utah.
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