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

Links

https://newlinesmag.com/podcast/ukraines-cluster-bomb-dilemma-with-sera-koulabdara-and-romeo-kokriatski/

Twitter

Anthony: @Bartaway
Romeo: @RomeoKokriatski
Ukraine Without Hype: @HypeUkraine

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Hey Sokoli (Traditional)

In this episode...

00:00:36 - Announcements; join our Discord

00:02:44 - Russian counterattack thwarted in the Luhansk Oblast while progress continues in the south and Bakhmut

00:11:20 - Russia cancels grain deal, then bombs Odesa city center and port infrastructure

00:25:44 - The Ballad of Igor Girkin, the Forrest Gump of Russian Imperialism. One of the men most personally responsible for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He is now under arrest in Russia for something other than his actual crimes.

1:02:20 - Russian conspiracy to humiliate a Ukrainian fencer backfires

Links

"Uprooted" by the Kyiv Independent: https://youtu.be/cq2gEMhuDps
My article on Kherson: https://kyivindependent.com/how-russian-soldiers-shared-evidence-of-their-own-war-crime/

Twitter

Anthony: @Bartaway
Romeo: @RomeoKokriatski
Ukraine Without Hype: @HypeUkraine

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Hey Sokoli (Traditional)

In this episode...

01:30 - Ukrainian army attacks the first line of Russian defense in the south while making gains around Bakhmut. Meanwhile, deep attacks take down the Crimean Bridge and an assassination of a Russian submarine commander.

13:30 - An update on the after-effects of the Wagner Coup attempt

20:30 - The NATO Summit in Vilnius proves to be disappointing.

27:00 - Zelensky clashes with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev

30:00 - Zelensky's visit to Poland looks to mend old wounds.

38:30 - Turkey makes big moves to support Ukraine amidst Russia canceling the grain deal.

47:00 - Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina passes in the hospital after a Russian missile attack in Kramatorsk.

52:40 - Question from the fans on the US sending Ukraine cluster munitions

Twitter

Anthony: @Bartaway
Romeo: @RomeoKokriatski
Ukraine Without Hype: @HypeUkraine

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Hey Sokoli (Traditional)

In this episode...

00:50 - The Ukrainian counteroffensive lurches forward across the front lines

07:23 - Wagner Group and its leader Yevgeniy Prigozhin launch a day-long uprising against the Russian government. What happened? Why? What now?

41:15 - A locked Kyiv bomb shelter leads to the death of a mother and child.

45:00 - Russian targets a restaurant in Kramatorsk used as a hub for journalists and aid workers.

48:00 - The legal system finally answers the question

43:45 - A peace delegation by a group of African countries proves disappointing

57:00 - Hungary holds Ukrainian prisoners of war

Twitter

Anthony: @Bartaway
Romeo: @RomeoKokriatski
Ukraine Without Hype: @HypeUkraine

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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.

Twitter

Anthony: @Bartaway
Romeo: @RomeoKokriatski
Ukraine Without Hype: @HypeUkraine

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Hey Sokoli (Traditional)

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.

Dylan Burn's Info

https://www.dylanburns.tv/
https://www.youtube.com/@DylanBurnsLIVE
https://twitter.com/DylanBurns1776

Twitter

Anthony: @Bartaway
Romeo: @RomeoKokriatski
Ukraine Without Hype: @HypeUkraine

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Hey Sokoli (Traditional)

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.

Twitter

Anthony: @Bartaway
Romeo: @RomeoKokriatski
Ukraine Without Hype: @HypeUkraine

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https://linktr.ee/ukrainewithouthype

Music
Hey Sokoli (Traditional)

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

Twitter

Anthony: @Bartaway
Romeo: @RomeoKokriatski
Ukraine Without Hype: @HypeUkraine

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https://linktr.ee/ukrainewithouthype

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Hey Sokoli (Traditional)

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

Twitter

Anthony: @Bartaway
Romeo: @RomeoKokriatski
Ukraine Without Hype: @HypeUkraine

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https://linktr.ee/ukrainewithouthype

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Hey Sokoli (Traditional)

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.

Twitter
Karena: @KarenaAv

Anthony: @Bartaway
Romeo: @RomeoKokriatski
Ukraine Without Hype: @HypeUkraine

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https://linktr.ee/ukrainewithouthype

Music
Hey Sokoli (Traditional)