Following the Russian destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Dam in the Kherson region, the area downstream was flooded, causing a massive amount of destruction. Anthony went to the city to cover the aid efforts in a city in which he has memories of a better time.

While there, the Russians fired on a group of humanitarian aid workers Anthony was helping and reporting on. One was wounded but is in stable condition.

After that story, Anthony goes on a rant about the Internal Committee of the Red Cross failing in its mission. Then an overview of what the future environmental, economic, epidemiological, and war-related after-effects of the dam's destruction will be for years to come.

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Dylan Burns is a political streamer on YouTube and Twitch who has made multiple reporting trips to Ukraine. We talk about his coverage of demining efforts and other topics, what it means to be a political streamer with a younger audience who stepped into the world of journalism, and the controversial value of debating more Russia-friendly figures.

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In this episode -

00:40 - What is it like to go through a mass suicide drone attack?

10:43 - Combat update: Ukraine continues to advance around Bakhmut, but major shifts are unlikely until the counter-offensive. They also continue to hit strategic Russian points. Meanwhile, Russia struggles to find a solution to re-do's of the Belgorod border raid.

18:00 - A tangent about the rise of Russian PMCs as an erosion of Russian state power.

22:27 - Armenia takes further steps to concede the Karabakh dispute to Azerbaijan.

26:20 - NATO peacekeepers injured by ethnic Serb protesters while trying to control conflict in Kosovo.

34:53 - A tangent about how consociational governance isn't all that great and how some in the West tried to impose failing models from the Balkans onto Ukraine.

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In this episode -

1:30 - Russian forces take control of the ruins of Bakhmut

11:15 - A questionable group of Russian volunteer soldiers fighting for Ukraine launch a raid into Belgorod Oblast of Russia and take a strangely long amount of time to be driven off.

37:30 - With the Russian success in Bakhmut, the war enters a new phase. What are the opportunities and concerns for how that new phase will shape out?

47:30 - Looking to the sky, Kyiv thwarts a massive missile barrage with the help of the Patriot missile defense system, and it looks like F-16s are on their way to the Ukrainian Air Force

52:10 - The Arab League, G7, and Chinese-Central Asia Summits all show opportunities for Ukraine and how far Russian soft power has fallen

1:06:30 - The (now former) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court gets caught in a bribery scandal

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In this episode -

1:45 - An overview of the evolving situation in the war. Ukraine has made a series of localized micro-offensives throughout the front line resulting in numerous small victories against the Russian occupiers. Most importantly, in the area around Bakhmut, where they have retaken ground to the north and south of the city. This also enflames the struggle between the Wagner Group and the regular Russian army.

26:15 - Ukraine's acquisition of Patriot and Storm Shadow missile systems is changing the calculus in the war of long-range missiles.

40:25 - A eulogy for the left-wing internationalist volunteers Finbar Cafferkey, Cooper Andrews, and Dmitry Petrov, and the journalist Arman Soldin.

52:40 - The Red Square Victory Day Parade was a flop.

1:03:00 - Amnesty International was caught covering up an internal review showing the failings of the Ukraine reportage.

1:06:50 - Eurovision

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Ukraine without Hype is joined by Armenian political scientist Karena Avedissian. Karena specializes in governance, access to justice, social movements, and new media/communications in Eurasia. We asked her about the background of the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict over the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region, recent developments of Baku tightening their grip on the region and Yerevan looking like they may give in, and the role of civil society in either country.

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In this Episode...

1:00 - Combat Update: Ukraine pushed back to the last few neighborhoods in Bakhmut, while a raid in Kherson Oblast gains attention as paving the way for the coming offensive.

12:05 - Putin visits occupied Kherson Oblast...maybe

17:05 - Wagner fighters blow the whistle, having been given extermination orders against Ukrainians

(https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/18/wagner-mercenary-admits-tossing-grenades-at-injured-ukrainian-pows)

25:12 - Ukraine's EU neighbors block Ukrainian agricultural imports in order to protect domestic markets, the EU is trying to negotiate a resolution.

International News

39:50 - Washington Post reports on deep Russian influence campaigns in Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany Party and left-wing Die Linke Party.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/21/germany-russia-interference-afd-wagenknecht/

47:35 - Azerbaijan closes down Nagorno Karabakh, and the next conflict looms closer.

57:35 - Civil War in Sudan is another conflict where the Wagner Group is showing its influence.

For Sudan: @YousraElbagir

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In this Episode...

01:10 - War Updates: The Russians advance through the city center of Bakhmut, but it seems pretty certain that the city will not be surrounded. No Russian progress around Avdiivka, and most other advances have ground down.

10:07 - The Wagner Group circulates a video of themselves beheading a live Ukrainian prisoner. We go into some of the sociology behind why they would go to such depths.

20:52 - The Russian Orthodox Church faces an increasingly frequent series of localized crises in the aftermath of their official expulsion from the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.

27:22 - In the main focus of the episode, a weirdo internet Nazi working for the Air National Guard leaks a trove of top-secret military documents in order to impress his friends on a gaming chatroom.

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In this News Digest...

00:50 - War Updates: The focus of the war is on Bakhmut and Avdiivka, two cities that have been largely destroyed and are threatened by attempted Russian encirclements. Russia knocks a US surveillance drone out of international skies, while Slovakia supplies Ukraine with fighter jets. Putin threatens to move tactical nuclear weapons into Belarus.

15:00 - International Relations: While Putin accepts his role as an inferior partner at a summit with China, Japanese PM Kishida makes a visit to Kyiv. Journalists release evidence of a years-long Russian plot to dominate Moldova in the midst of that plot seemingly unfolding ( https://kyivindependent.com/leaked-document-exposes-kremlins-10-year-plan-to-undermine-moldova/ ). Azerbaijan begins a new round of hostilities with Karabakh and Armenia.

And the title story - the International Criminal Court puts out a warrant for Vladimir Putin and "Children’s rights commissioner" Maria Lvova-Belova for the mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children.

28:40 - Domestic News: Standoff as Russian Orthodox priests refuse to vacate Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. A gay marriage bill is introduced to the Verkhovna Rada. New picks for Ministerial positions in the government seem promising.

37:05 - Entertainment: At the Oscars, "Navalny" documentary beats Ukrainian documentary "House Made of Splinters." I have thoughts.

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James is a US Army veteran who supported Ukraine for years before the full-scale invasion and enlisted when the time came. We talk to him about how his many years living in Russia opened his eyes to the country's simmering fascism and his path into the Ukrainian army. Since he also has a YouTube channel where he talks about old movies, we also go into how evolving technologies and pop culture shape popular perceptions of the nature of war.

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