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Feb 2024
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The Telegraph
About this episode

Day 730. Today, Dom Nicholls is joined by Francis Farrell, a journalist with the Kyiv Independent, who talks us through a series of press conferences yesterday in the Ukrainian capital as someone who was in the room.

Plus David Knowles chats with another reporter from The Kyiv Independent Alexander Khrebe, to discuss his work reporting on the occupied territories, including the upcoming 10 year anniversary of his own escape working undercover in Donetsk.


Contributors:

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Francis Farrell (Reporter, The Kyiv Independent). @francisjfarrell on X.

David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on X.

With thanks to Alexander Khrebet (Reporter, The Kyiv Independent). @AlexKhrebet on X.


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