With the full-scale Russian invasion in its third year, the most intense fighting is currently taking place in the Ukrainian Donbas. Shellings and deaths there make the global news. Yet for locals, who live in a conflict zone since 2014, war is nothing new. How do Ukrainians continue to live in the conflict region and plan their lives amid an existential threat?
Jutta Sommerbauer – a journalist at the Austrian newspaper die Presse – will share her first-hand experiences of visiting Donbas this Summer together with a photographer Jana Madzigon.
At this talk you will learn:
• How ordinary people live through war and what it means for men, women, and children
• How Ukraine is preparing for winter and defends against aerial attacks
• How journalists work in a conflict zone
• What to expect at the frontline in the near future
Jutta is a journalist at die Presse, who has been following the war in Donbas since 2014. She witnessed the Maidan Revolution, the Russian annexation of Crimea, and worked as a Moscow-based correspondent of die Presse between 2017 and 2021.
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