What's the on the Ground Reality of War?

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Ike: The fog of war is all the more real in the age of tiktok and social media. There's just so much more information out there, and you never know exactly what you're seeing. I don't think we're seeing like staged footage. But at the same time, you know, you see how quickly rumor starts to spread. It began to feel like really, really real when the tex messages were getting passed around with a different kind of urgency.

Joshua Yaffa is a correspondent for The New Yorker, the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia, and has been reporting from Ukraine for the last several weeks. His most recent article is "What the Russian Invasion Has Done to Ukraine."

“I’m not at all a conflict reporter. I don't like it, though who would like being in these situations? But this is the story, right? If you cover this part of the world, if the war in 2014 felt like the tectonic plates of history were shifting, now they're just erupting, crashing. This is the asteroid-impact event for this part of the world with effects that will last similarly long going forward.”

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