

In this episode, we hear audio diaries from two people on opposite sides of the crisis. First, filmmaker Iryna Tsilk, who we first met in the weeks before the invasion, takes us through her decision to leave Kyiv where her husband is fighting as a soldier in Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces. Then, a Russian-Ukrainian student living in Germany named Alex records his story from the road. The week after Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Alex traveled to a border crossing with Poland, joining a ragtag army of volunteers providing humanitarian assistance and safe passage to those fleeing Ukraine.
Guest Contributors:
Iryna Tsilyk, filmmaker and director of “The Earth is Blue as an Orange”
Alex Gerz, Russian-Ukrainian student based in Kassel, Germany
Host(s):
Ray Suarez, WorldAffairs co-host
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