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Journalist explains why her fiancé joined the war in Ukraine

Published April 7, 2022 at 10:40 AM PDT

Iuliia Mendel, a journalist and former press secretary to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, joins Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd to discuss her fiance Pavlo, a government energy adviser, who has joined the fight against the Russian military.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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