From The Poynter Report with Tom Jones:
On assignment in Ukraine
NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel is back this Friday with another “On Assignment with Richard Engel.” This time, Engel features on-the-ground reporting from Ukraine. The episode — called “Ukraine: Freedom or Death” — will air at 10 p.m. Eastern on MSNBC and will stream on Peacock.
Among Engel’s reporting is meeting the Bobkov family, who hid in a bunker in Kharkiv for 27 days. Engel also meets and hears the stories of survivors of various atrocities committed by the Russian forces.
Engel also talks with American-Ukrainian Miro Popovych, an Afghanistan vet who is now fighting in Kyiv, the city where he was born. He tells Engel: “We are willing to die. … We are going to do everything.”
There’s also the tear-jerking story of Andriana Susak, a mother who joined the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Kyiv and served as an assault trooper on the frontline. As she stayed behind to fight, she recounts sending her 6-year-old son to safety in West Ukraine and describes feeling as though it might be the last time she ever saw him.
The latest notable journalism from Russia-Ukraine
- From Bloomberg News: “Kremlin Insiders Alarmed Over Growing Toll of Putin’s War in Ukraine.”
- The New York Times’ Michael Schwirtz with “A town in Ukraine’s east finds itself squarely in the path of Russia’s advance.”
- Grim video from The Washington Post as explained by Post journalist Louisa Loveluck: “Post reporters spent 7 days in Bucha. They saw more than 200 bodies.”
- USA Today columnist Jill Lawrence with “Zelenskyy’s path from comedy to tragedy: Can he save Ukraine from Russian war invaders?”
- The Washington Post’s Robert Klemko and Serhii Korolchuk with “One body at a time, a Kyiv coroner documents Ukraine’s death toll.”
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