Hello and welcome to a special episode of Battleground Ukraine with me, Saul David.

Today I'm talking to young Hungarian journalist Baldassazar Giori, who we met on our

recent trip to Kharkiv and who's been living there for the last five months, right on the edge of the

front lines, just about 25 miles away from the Russian border. But before we talk to Boldie,

just a quick warning to listeners that some of the material is quite

gruesome, dead bodies recover from the battlefield in quite a lot of details, so just beware.

Baldi, welcome to the podcast. Hi, thanks for having me. Now, we met, of course, for the first time

in Harkeve during our recent trip there. Tell us a little bit about

how you ended up in Harkiv. I should say to the listeners that you're relatively young journalist,

aren't you? 25 years old, is that right, Baldi? 26, but thanks for assuming less. Close enough.

Okay, but still pretty young, probably about the same age Patrick was when he

went out to the Falklands. He might have been a year or two older. But in any case, tell us how

you ended up in Harkiv covering the Ukraine war. Right. So to start at the beginnings, I've

always been fond of history. And when the war started, I immediately sensed just as many around me that really the

veil of history is turning in Ukraine now and I just want to be there and witness it somehow

because it would determine.

Probably a good chunk of my life and what kind of world I will live in and my kids.

And journalism seemed to be a good way to get close to action and witness it.

And it's also a good technique to just process what you were witnessing.

I've never been a trained journalist.

I just went to Julius Strauss, another friend of this podcast,

and asked him to mentor me, which he did for a couple of months after which I set off to Harkiv,

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