James Verini
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216 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
James Verini’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was, of course, of course I'm going to help these people.
When these hundreds of people showed up at the theater, because the caravan of evacuation buses never ended up leaving, and Evgenia and Sergei had to decide whether to let in the theater, even though they were not prepared to receive any refugees.
They thought, of course, we must do this.
We have no choice.
And the same with Dr. Olena.
Of course, she's going to set up the infirmary.
What choice does she have?
Not only what practical choice, but what moral choice?
And so they ended up being everyday heroes.
You've put it well yourself.
I couldn't put it much better.
You use the word resilience at the beginning.
That's precisely what's going on.
There is a absolutely iron resilience among the Ukrainians, which is all the more heartening because it wasn't necessarily there before the war.
I started going to Ukraine reporting in the summer of 2021 before the invasion began because I sensed something was up.
And I went to the front line in Donbas, which had already been there for seven years since the 2014 invasions.
And I found a lot of division among Ukrainians.
A lot of, first of all, Russophilic Ukrainians.
And then a lot of ambivalent Ukrainians who were sick of that war in Donbas and who didn't particularly trust their government.
Zelensky before the war had very low approval ratings.
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