For five weeks, journalists at Maye Sense, an online news site serving people of Slavyansk in the Donetsk region of Eastern Ukraine, have been working non-stop, largely without pay, and sometimes in situations where their safety is not guaranteed. 

Two weeks ago, most of them made the difficult decision to decamp to the relative safety of Western Ukraine, where they continue their work from more than 1,000 kilometers away.

On this special episode of “The Eagle,” Times Union Editor-in-Chief Casey Seiler checks back in with Maye Sense's editor, Valerii Garmash, to learn what it’s like being a journalist in Ukraine right now.

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