Memes, social media and life in Kyiv: interview with Oleksandra Povoroznyk

Memes, social media and life in Kyiv: interview with Oleksandra Povoroznyk

Day 135.

Today, we analyse the latest updates from the battlefront, ask how Boris Johnson’s resignation is being received in Ukraine and we talk to Kyiv based journalist and translator Oleksandra Povoroznyk about life in Ukraine, social media and the meme-war against the Russian invasion.

Contributors:

David Knowles (Host)

Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Reporter)

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor)

With thanks to Oleksandra Povoroznyk.


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