250. The Khartiia Brigade and Kharkiv's evolution.

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In another bonus episode recorded on the ground in Ukraine's embattled eastern city of Kharkiv, Saul and Patrick speak to a Ukrainian Soldier from the Khartiia Brigade namely unit spokesperson Volodymyr Dehtiarov. Additionally, in the second half of the episode Saul speaks to friend of the podcast Joe Lindsey about his time reporting for WGN Radio and Kharkiv's evalution through the different phases of the war. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson X: @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.0	Well, coming up is another one of our bonus episodes recorded on the ground in Ukraine's embattled eastern city of Harkiv.
0:52.7	So we're thawing out, or trying to thaw out in a restaurant recommended to us by the spokesman
0:59.0	of the Cartier Brigade, Volodymyr, who we're meeting shortly for lunch, a little bit of
1:04.1	a chat about the brigade. It was bitterly cold, I have to say, as we mentioned probably
1:10.1	in our last little segment up there,
1:12.1	so it's nice to finally warm up. We couldn't get a taxi. We were literally at the edge of northern
1:18.6	Kharkiv. We couldn't get a taxi, try as we might. But we eventually got a bus, and we were
1:24.4	doubly delighted to find that the bus was free and he was heading in
1:29.1	roughly the right direction. Patrick Eagle-Eyed spotted the exact bus we needed so we jumped
1:33.9	off one and got onto another and here we are. So one of the fascinating things that we've been
1:38.9	discussing over the last few months on the podcast is the issue of rotation out of the line and people getting enough leave.
1:47.0	And we've already got an indication from Ascold that that's something that the Cartier Brigade take very seriously.
1:53.0	Can you give us a sense of how often people are likely to get leave in any given period?
1:58.0	So that would really depend on the type of the job that the person is doing and how irreplaceable here she is.
2:04.6	However, overall the brigade makes a special emphasis on the fact that people need to rest and people need to take leaves
2:14.6	and the commander regularly gets reports from the from our S-1 which is
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