i'm not at all a conflict reporter. I don't like it. Though i guess i don't know who who would like being in these situations. But, i mean, if you cover this part of the world, if the war in two thousand 14 felt like the tetonic plates of history were shifting, now they're just like, erupting, crashing. ike, that gives me a little bit of space to do a different kind of work. It's the only kind i, frankly, have the stomachror courage for.
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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