and very recently were reporting from there. you know, you re reporting mainly for an american audience. has the war been covered differently in the us than the uk, do you think? i don t think so, particularly. i mean, ithink we re all charged. journalists on the ground are charged with the same thing and share the same passion, which is to find a story that you think is going to be most interesting to the audience on that day. i was very keen going in recently to to get a sense of how the war was being fought at the front lines, because i think that gives an understanding as to how the war is going to be fought over the coming months and insight, perhaps, into how long this war is going to go on. and the likely, as the cases at the moment, the less less than likely sort of significant shifts in terrain territory. so i think that the driving force is still to find that story that really helps the audience understand what s happening. and i kind of think back a little bit here to coveri
you know, they are continuing to to cover this war six months into it. but, of course, i think the journalists who have been covering ukraine before this full scale invasion, they can contribute more and present a broader picture of what is actually happening. and i think also ukrainian journalists who are here on the ground, who have been collaborating with international media, like me, and like other my colleagues, they are also doing a very important part of the job because they understand the local context. they have contacts on the ground. they have a lot of so called warm contacts when you might not have to send official letters to get an interview from the ministry. but maybe you have a colleague that you worked a couple of years ago together, and now that colleague s working at the ministry and can organise things easier. and also a lot like what matters a lot is that people in ukraine and journalists in ukraine, they are living this war.
and then over time, i think this interest has faded in a way. now, maybe some are returning because of ukraine s independence day and also because of this six month mark since the full scale invasion started. and that, i think, is something that kind of worries people in ukraine because they are really afraid of the world getting tired of this war and from ukraine disappearing from the tv screens and from the newspapers pages. and in terms of the work you ve specifically been doing, what have editors wanted from you? what sorts of stories have you been doing? well, in the first weeks and months, those were mostly breaking news stories. i was reporting, you know, mostly for broadcast media, giving a lot of interviews and also writing something for online media like time magazine and also for some other online media in the us. i have been collaborating on a regular basis with the uk magazine and radio monaco. and while, you know,
as i said in the initial weeks and months, there was this focus on breaking news. what is happening now? i think this focus has been shifting in the recent weeks and months more towards describing the trends and the analysis, what is happening. and also me personally, i think i kind of reshaped what i wanted to talk about from breaking news on reporting more on human rights violations and russian war crimes in ukraine and pitching this kind of stories. 0k. i m going to bring in deborah haynes here. you were in ukraine as the war started for sky news. you re back there now. just tell us where you are and how you approach a mission like this one. yes. so i m in odesa at the moment in the south of ukraine. i ve literally just arrived, actually. we flew into moldova and then drove across the border. and, yes, it s very surreal being here six months on to the beginning of this all out invasion,
because we were coming into ukraine from december when there was this sudden sort of belief, unfortunately, that russian forces that were massing around the border were actually going to launch some all out offensive. and while it was actually really hard to conceive that a war like that would again be launched on european soil, the reality, when we saw the build up of russian forces, when we heard what the western officials were saying at the time, it felt as though it was unfortunately inevitable. but even though you had that feeling that it was coming. and remember, back in in the beginning ofjanuary, even into early february, the ukrainian officials up to the president were really sort of playing down the in public the thought that there could be that russia really would launch a full scale invasion of their country. this is a country that s been at war for eight years now. while, of course, social media, obviously, we could see