DW Berlin Briefing - Inside German politics
Oct 27, 2026 · 14 min · 7 segments
DW’s Max Hofmann speaks with DW correspondent Carolina Chimoy about her new podcast series, Call Sign Condor, which follows Latin American soldiers fighting in Ukraine. Listen here…
Carolina ChimoyGuest
Max HofmannHost
And people who listen to the podcast, what do you think are going to be the big key learnings that they will take away? Maybe something surprising as well.

I think the most surprising thing is that many of them have found stability in Ukraine.

One of the female soldiers, that was for me one of the biggest surprise during the interviews I did, was this soldier, Chloe.

And she told me, you know what? I know that I will stay here even if there's no war anymore, because what I found in Ukraine and what I live here every day is peace.

Because she is from a country in Colombia and she lives in a neighborhood that is quite dangerous.

So she said, there are people who are being killed in my neighborhood every day.

And there's there's no danger, other than the bombs and the drones, of course.

And people who listen to the podcast, what do you think are going to be the big key learnings that they will take away? Maybe something surprising as well.

I think the most surprising thing is that many of them have found stability in Ukraine.

One of the female soldiers, that was for me one of the biggest surprise during the interviews I did, was this soldier, Chloe.

And she told me, you know what? I know that I will stay here even if there's no war anymore, because what I found in Ukraine and what I live here every day is peace.

Because she is from a country in Colombia and she lives in a neighborhood that is quite dangerous.

So she said, there are people who are being killed in my neighborhood every day.

And there's there's no danger, other than the bombs and the drones, of course.
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