Richard Engel

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243 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Sep

Richard Engel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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It's it's astonishing.

So I'm still in Kharkiv, which is in uh eastern Ukraine, very close to the Russian border.

It's considered a frontline area.

Uh there are drone attacks uh in and around Kharkiv every single day.

You hear the air raid sirens all the time.

And despite it all, obviously people are still living in the city and are trying to go on with their lives.

have th families and we went to a medical facility, we went to a hospital.

And uh when whenever an air raid siren goes off, Steph, you you can imagine you you've been in places where air aid sirens go off.

If you're mobile, you run and you find hard shelter.

But if you're in the middle of something where you can't move, like you're giving birth uh uh in an operating theater, where are you gonna go?

Uh so in this case they moved all of the operating theaters down into the bomb shelter, down below the uh the hospital.

While we were there, uh th obviously they agreed to to do this, we

Filmed a birth.

It was a planned procedure.

Uh Marina was is the mother's name.

And she went in for a C-section.

And we we filmed from the surgery to the to the baby coming out.

And then the doctors gave uh Marina this this beautiful newborn baby boy.

I just asked her how she's feeling and what's it like, you know, in these circumstances.

And she said that it's terrible and

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