Fighting For Ukraine
Yuriy Matsarsky is a Ukranian journalist turned civilian fighter against the Russian invasion on the democratic country of Ukraine. In this podcast he brings daily updates from the frontlines of the Ukranian resistance. “As a journalist I thought, ‘You shouldn’t be involved in this. You should be watching from the sidelines.’ But the Ukrainian citizen part of me told me, ‘No, this doesn’t work anymore. You should protect your country, you should protect your loved ones, you should protect your freedom—you should protect your people.’”
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Yuriy Matsarsky
Yuriy is a Ukranian journalist based in Kyiv who has spent most of his professional media career covering warzones. Now he finds himself in one and the battle is his. Yuriy has put down his journalist pen and picked up a rifle to protect his country against the Russian invasion.
“I want Ukraine to be prosperous, to be a happy country, my people all around me to be happy. Putin is following in the steps of Hitler right now. Every day, with every bombing, with every rocket fire, it’s more and more and more dead Ukrainians. More dead Ukrainians.
“This fight is not only for us. We are fighting for the whole world. I really, really love the United States, and the United States people. We love the same music, we love the same books, we love our kids in the same way. Please help us.”
Episodes
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
August 6th 2022
Yuriy is on the road and took a trip to his hometown of Kharkiv where he asked a senior officer when and how he thinks the war will end. His answer did not surprise him, but made an impact.
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Thursday Aug 04, 2022
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
August 4th 2022
Yuriy answers a question from his listener Linda about the evacuation of older Ukrainians.
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Monday Aug 01, 2022
Monday Aug 01, 2022
August 1st 2022
Yuriy considers his perspective from a few months ago being worried about his job, and now his biggest worry is getting captured alive by the Russians and how he'll make sure that never happens.
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Yuriy’s GoFundMe campaign to support his family: https://gofund.me/6bef49ba
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
July 31st 2022
Yuriy talks about becoming a Samaritan and what his traveling days as a journalist taught him about different religions and cultures.
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Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
July 28th 2022
Ukrainians are returning home but far from the battlefront. Yuriy's own daughter returned home recently for a joyous reunion and he shares his gratitude for those listeners who donated to help him buy a bullet-proof vest that his daughter had delivered to her and brought back.
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Saturday Jul 23, 2022
Saturday Jul 23, 2022
July 23rd 2022
Yuriy talks about a friend of his who is missing and recalls an encounter with a former music teacher of his he bumped into recently in the army.
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Friday Jul 22, 2022
Friday Jul 22, 2022
July 22nd 2022
Yuriy recalls the lessons of Bosnia in the 1990s and considers what if anything has changed, what has the world learned from that period of history that could be applied now in terms of the way a people are being treated.
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Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
July 19th 2022
Yuriy talks about the trouble with Belarus.
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Saturday Jul 16, 2022
Saturday Jul 16, 2022
July 16th 2022
Yuriy talks about the recent bombings killing civilians and children and how he worries about his daughter coming back to Ukraine.
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Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
July 14th 2022
Yuriy's daughter has COVID but in Ukraine they have more things to worry about than a pandemic...
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Yuriy’s GoFundMe campaign to support his family: https://gofund.me/6bef49ba