Episode 56: Looking Over an Empty Reservoir - A Trip to the South

Ukraine Without Hype

Anthony has returned from a reporting trip to the south of Ukraine and relays what he saw on the ground.

00:02:10 - Odesa's Transfiguration Cathedral was badly damaged by the recent Russia strike on the city landmark, but Odesa is undeterred from the August vacation season.

00:19:05 - We had a bit of an adventure with the Transnistria border and a drunk, possibly, maybe marijuana farmer, but saw the very apparent reforms in the State Border Service.

00:38:14 - Returning to Mykolaiv, a city bouncing back now that it is no longer the front line.

00:42:21 - The area around the now-drained Nova Kakhovka Reservoir is facing a water crisis, both for individual use and agriculture. But the recovered meadowland also has archeological discoveries.

1:02:25 - Zaporizhzhia, on the other end of the reservoir, is a fortified city overseeing the counteroffensive only a short distance away.

1:10:42 - Conclusions

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