Posted on Mar 29, 2022
Kyiv journalist with ties to Kansas City cried as she packed to flee: 'What if I never come...
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Anna Yakutenko, 27, was a reporter for the Kyiv Post when she was awarded a 2018 Alfred Friendly Fellowship, a University of Missouri program that brings journalists to train in U.S. newsrooms. Yakutenko spent several months of her training at KCUR.
As the war in Ukraine has accelerated, KCUR wanted to check in with our colleague. Yakutenko—now a freelance journalist—escaped Kyiv for Lviv, where hundreds of thousands of refugees are waiting to migrate into neighboring Poland. Yakutenko says she spends a lot of time helping friends find transit across the border or housing in western Ukraine.
We called Yakutenko in Lviv to get a sense of how she was doing and what her life was like.
As the war in Ukraine has accelerated, KCUR wanted to check in with our colleague. Yakutenko—now a freelance journalist—escaped Kyiv for Lviv, where hundreds of thousands of refugees are waiting to migrate into neighboring Poland. Yakutenko says she spends a lot of time helping friends find transit across the border or housing in western Ukraine.
We called Yakutenko in Lviv to get a sense of how she was doing and what her life was like.
Kyiv journalist with ties to Kansas City cried as she packed to flee: 'What if I never come...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good read/share, wow what a courageous woman.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."As the war in Ukraine has accelerated, KCUR wanted to check in with our colleague. Yakutenko — now a freelance journalist — escaped Kyiv for Lviv, where hundreds of thousands of refugees are waiting to migrate into neighboring Poland. Yakutenko says she spends a lot of time helping friends find transit across the border or housing in western Ukraine.
We called Yakutenko in Lviv to get a sense of how she was doing and what her life was like.
We wanted to make sure she was all right. But we also knew her journalistic sensibility and skill as a storyteller would offer a unique perspective on life today in Ukraine. Her experience living in Kansas City gave her a frame of reference by which to describe what was happening that would be familiar to Kansas Citians.
For example, she described the recent airstrikes around Lviv as if they could have occurred in the suburbs of Kansas while she was living in downtown Kansas City."...
..."As the war in Ukraine has accelerated, KCUR wanted to check in with our colleague. Yakutenko — now a freelance journalist — escaped Kyiv for Lviv, where hundreds of thousands of refugees are waiting to migrate into neighboring Poland. Yakutenko says she spends a lot of time helping friends find transit across the border or housing in western Ukraine.
We called Yakutenko in Lviv to get a sense of how she was doing and what her life was like.
We wanted to make sure she was all right. But we also knew her journalistic sensibility and skill as a storyteller would offer a unique perspective on life today in Ukraine. Her experience living in Kansas City gave her a frame of reference by which to describe what was happening that would be familiar to Kansas Citians.
For example, she described the recent airstrikes around Lviv as if they could have occurred in the suburbs of Kansas while she was living in downtown Kansas City."...
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