James Landale

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127 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard today

James Landale’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 2.

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The level of attacks have definitely increased from the last time I was there.

And I've been all over Ukraine, and I've never experienced the constant fear that one has at night time in Slovyansk.

Daytime, you can kind of survive it, and it's manageable.

But at night...

When it's pitch black, and it is pitch black because no lights are on anywhere, that's when the Russians begin their bombardment of the city.

And that is normally with live bombs, drones, and other rockets and missiles as well.

You are woken up every night about 3 o'clock or 3.30 in the morning.

to the whole building shaking.

That's my experience.

And 100 metres away from where I was staying, an apartment block was hit and half of it was demolished.

Lala Tarapakina is a Ukrainian volunteer who evacuates animals from frontline areas.

She says staying in Kramatorsk means dicing with death.

Kramatorsk and Slavyansk are a key part of Ukraine's so-called Fortress Belt, a system of heavily reinforced defence lines in the east.

Losing them would make it much easier for Russia to advance westward.

As one general told Ukrainian TV, this isn't just a battle for Donbass.

It's probably the main battle for Ukraine this year and next.

Dressman.com.

A crowded waiting room, trolleys in corridors, highly stressed staff.

But this isn't a typical NHS A&E unit.

It's a Hollywood set with actors recreating the pressure cooker atmosphere of an emergency department.

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