Oliver Carroll

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152 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 20 Aug

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Economist Podcasts · Putin’s options: an oligarch speaks out · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

July the 2nd was the biggest aerial attack since the war began, and all 29 ballistic missiles and anti-ship missiles which were launched landed.

There were no interceptions, and they killed 31 people.

You know, it really depends which part of Kiev you're talking about, because there are relatively safe and relatively less safe parts.

But, for example, Sunday night, Monday morning, the attacks effectively levelled eight streets in a suburb called Vishnovo.

What had happened there was a Russian missile had essentially targeted an ammunition dump.

You saw first responders trying to pull survivors out for hours after.

It was a very grim scene.

After the attacks in the morning, you often wake up to this sunrise.

You can barely see the smoke covering the horizon, this black fog.

You know, when you're in one particular gig for like essentially four and a half years, you're obviously not a local.

You're able to rotate out every two or three months, but you still feel the same kind of most Ukrainians are feeling.

And this new uptick in the aerial attacks, you've seen people essentially when they wouldn't be paying that much attention to them, they're now really taking serious attention.

So they're sleeping in the metro, they're fleeing cities again.

And

Despite the more positive news you're seeing from the front lines, and certainly there's a story which we can talk about there, there is a real sense of anxiety and tiredness and frankly exhaustion

And you see it most especially, for example, in young military age males.

The mobilization at the moment is becoming increasingly aggressive.

So for them, it's a very difficult picture.

So every two or three months, I'm sort of teleported to Europe or America, if that's what you could call 27 hours on the road.

And it's really strange where you see these different worlds where a major worry for people is getting the restaurant booking for the evening.

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