Kyiv "Looks Like A Fortress": CNN's Matthew Chance On Covering Russia's Brutal War

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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CNN senior international correspondent Matthew Chance flew to Kyiv in January as Russia began amassing troops on Ukraine's borders, and was in the capital on February 24 when it launched its brutal assault. He tells Inside the Hive cohost Joe Hagan about covering a war that has transformed a country overnight, sending millions fleeing and others into the resistance as Russia targets civilians in its quest to take over the country. Chance describes what he witnessed, and what it’s like to be a journalist on the ground, as fellow reporters lose their lives. He also mulls what the war could mean for the global order, and the hopeless quagmire Vladimir Putin now finds himself in. Now recouping in London, Chase says the Kyiv he last saw was the tragic shell of a formerly vibrant metropolis, a hollowed-out death trap awaiting Russian forces with "a javelin anti-tank missile in every window.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome back to Inside the Hive, taking you inside the news with the people who make and shape it.
0:40.0	I'm Emily Jean-Fox here with my co-host Jo Hagan. Hello Jo.
0:44.0	Hi Emily, how are you today?
0:46.0	I'm hanging in there.
0:48.0	But I'm in live and knowing that you have a fantastic interview coming up this week.
0:54.0	Tell me everything.
0:56.0	Speaking of people who are in the middle of the news and who are just hanging in there.
1:03.0	Today we have Matthew Chance, senior correspondent of International News for CNN,
1:09.0	who has until like just two or three days ago been at the front lines of the Ukraine invasion by Russia,
1:18.0	has been reporting there since January.
1:21.0	The time that Russian forces were lining up at the border to the moment that missile started raining down on Kiev
1:29.0	and has been through it through thick and thin and is going to tell us what he saw,
1:36.0	what has happened there and what he thinks will happen.
1:40.0	And this is a guy who not only has been right at ground zero of this invasion
1:46.0	but has himself interviewed Vladimir Putin over the years, has had an incredible career covering everything.
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