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For one week, Campus Europe editor Phil Rambousek will travel Ukraine’s internal frontlines as an accredited war journalist. Having lived in the country before and speaking fluent Russian, he is no stranger to the environment. Still, this time things will be different. Join Phil and Campus Europe for an insightful journey to the frontlines, hear the stories of soldiers, volunteers and civilians, and get a picture that goes beyond the evening news.
by Phil Rambousek, Pyshevyk. Finally, we set off for the front. Specifically, for the town of Pyshevyk, which now serves as the main border crossing between the rebel-held territories and Ukraine in the south of the front. It is used daily by hundreds of civilians, and so both sides have reached a sort of understanding […]
by Phil Rambousek, Mariupol. The next day, we woke up at 7 AM, only to find that the Right Sector fighters had already managed to take of personal hygiene, worked out, and finished breakfast. By the time we came downstairs, they were lounging around, chain-smoking and joking around. We got a bowl of dry buckwheat […]
by Phil Rambousek, Kramatorsk & Mangush. The next day, we woke up in our Kramatorsk hotel, eager to get on with what we came here to do, and get to the front line. Instead however, we got to experience the universal hallmark of war reporting: being stonewalled by reluctant bureaucrats, and waiting. So much waiting, […]
by Filip Rambousek, Kramatorsk. Getting up early this morning, I caught a 6 AM train from Kyiv to Slavyansk, a city in the east of Ukraine, which has grown by more than 30.000 internally displaced persons (that is, refugees from the areas directly stricken by war) from its originally size of some 90.000. Aside from […]
by Filip Rambousek, Kiev. My summer has not been fun. So far, I believe I have spent the majority of my time calling, emailing and otherwise begging strangers for help, which was usually followed by trips to various administrative offices in Kyiv, Ukraine. All the while I am technically on holiday. But finally, tomorrow […]
