Dominic Culverwell

My thanks go to Oscar Boyd, travel buddy, producer, cameraman and editor on this Ukraine deep dive.

And special mention goes to Dominic Culverwell at the Kiev Independent and Maria Vlock for her help with translation.

Thanks too to Joe Jagger for making sure this trip happened, to the whole team at Cleaning Up, and of course to our leadership circle, without whom none of this would be possible.

Next week, we'll be talking with John E. Herbst, former US ambassador to Ukraine, about the origins of the war and how it may one day come to a close.

It's Wednesday, the thirtieth of September, four years and two hundred and eighteen days since the full-scale invasion began.

And later, I'll be joined in the studio by a friend of the podcast, senior frontline reporter at the Kyiv Independent, Francis Farrell, its deputy chief editor, Toma Istomina, and business reporter Dominic Culverwell.

But first, the key updates.

Starting in the military realm, Russia has conducted yet more overnight missile and drone attacks on Kyiv.