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Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been seeing things that many people thought would never happen again in Europe.
➡️ A massive military power invading a sovereign country to expand its territory and influence. Millions of civilians fleeing their homes. And nuclear threats in the air.
But what’s happening isn’t a sudden crisis. It’s been on a slow burn for years – and it goes back way before Russian tanks and troops crossed into Ukraine last month. And that’s what we’re focusing on in this week’s Reveal: the long war in Ukraine and the people who are living through it.
This episode is in partnership with Coda Story, a newsroom that reports on major currents shaping our world.
You’ll hear from:
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Irina Dovgan, who refused to leave her home in eastern Ukraine in 2014 when pro-Russia separatist fighters took over the region. She became an international symbol of that invasion after Russian-backed forces arrested, abused and publicly humiliated her. Now, eight years later, she is living through a second invasion.
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Coda Story's Glenn Kates and his now-wife, Olesia, who give us insight on what it’s been like to live in Kyiv as Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to invade, all while trying to prepare for a baby. Kates also talks to Kyiv residents about how Putin’s threats of invasion and violence have shifted their sense of identity. About one-fifth of Ukrainians are native Russian speakers.
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Peter Pomerantsev, a contributing editor at Coda Story and propaganda expert, who paints the picture of what it is like to be a journalist in Russia right now, where challenging Putin’s official version of events can land them in prison.
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Reveal’s Elizabeth Shogren, who takes us back to a time when Russia was charting a different course. In 1989, she was a Moscow-based reporter covering the Soviet Union’s first freely elected legislature.
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