The day the war broke out in Ukraine, Valerie Hopkins (@VALERIEinNYT) was in Kiev unsure of what was about to happen. Only a few months into working for The New York Times, she was at the center of the biggest story in the world. She now reports on the war as one of a dwindling number foreign correspondents in Russia, interviewing Russians who see the conflict in very different terms than the rest of the world. We also discuss her many years reporting across the Balkans. Countries featured: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Ukraine, Russia Publications featured: Financial Times, New York Times, The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Reuters Here are links to some of the things we talked about: Rubix cube inventor's Lunch with the FT - https://bit.ly/3YphHeb Valerie's story about Ukrainians' Russian relatives not believing in war - http://bit.ly/3XKRKWv Valerie on The Daily podcast on the Russian draft office - http://bit.ly/3XQwSgo Her story Where have all the men in Moscow gone? - http://bit.ly/40aCjs5 Nanna Heitmann's Instagram - https://bit.ly/3Juo6Ax Novaya Gazeta - http://bit.ly/40aVXnR Holod - http://bit.ly/3JqolMW Josh Yaffa's story on rape victims in Ukraine - http://bit.ly/3RiaWbB Sigrid Schultz wikipedia - http://bit.ly/3Ha71Je Last Call at the Hotel Imperial - https://bit.ly/3Ri0VLw   Follow us on Twitter @foreignpod or on Facebook at facebook.com/foreignpod Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats From: freemusicarchive.org CC BY NC