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Inside the Hive

The Human Toll of Putin's War

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

News

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of Inside the Hive, Emily Jane Fox talks to The Hive's editor and resident Russia-Ukraine expert Miriam Elderabout what is happening on the ground in Ukraine. As Russia escalates its war in Ukraine, including its bombing of a maternity and children's hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Elder talks through the human toll of this war: the impossible choices families are having to make, the horrors children are living through, the impact on a pediatric cancer hospital, and what Russian families are facing at the same time. Then, author Rebecca Fox Starr stops by to discuss how we talk about hard things with children, teach kids to take in events with empathy and how we process our own feelings about what is happening in this world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Welcome back to Inside the Hive, tickling Inside the News with the people who make a shape

0:42.2

that I'm Emily Jane Fox, I'm here.

0:44.8

So this week to introduce what I think is a really fantastic episode about the human

0:50.6

toll that the war in Ukraine, two weeks in, is taking on both the people who are fleeing

0:58.4

incredible destruction and devastation there and all of us who are watching it.

1:03.9

We have Miriam Elder, who is our fearless editor at the Hive and Vanity Fair, who is a true

1:11.9

expert in empath and she really shares her wisdom and knowledge of what is happening

1:17.7

over there and what it is like to be making the impossible decisions to flee your home

1:24.4

and your family and to take your children from absolute horror and devastation and put

1:32.2

them in train stations or in bunkers underground or over borders and to know what tomorrow

1:38.6

is going to bring and all of the horrors that that entails.

1:44.2

We also have Rebecca Fakstar, who is an author, a mental health advocate, a former teacher

1:49.8

and my sister and she talks about how we talk to our children about what is happening

1:55.8

here and what we should tell our children when we aren't sure if there's going to be

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