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"Daily Topics" moderator Caren Miosga in Kyiv
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Half a year after the start of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, ARD broadcast its "daily topics" live from Kyiv on Wednesday evening.
"Good evening and welcome to an unusual edition of the 'Daily Topics' from the capital of Ukraine," moderator Caren Miosga said in greeting.
According to ARD, Miosga had traveled through the country with WDR reporter Vassili Golod in the past few days to talk to Ukrainians “about life and survival in war”.
"We spoke to an entrepreneur who recently made locks and now supplies vehicles for the soldiers at the front," Miosga said before the show.
"We met a woman who escaped from an occupied city and tells how the Russians are trying to take control of the city and the people."
In addition to the Ukrainians, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba also had a say in the program.
"It feels like we've already won this war because according to the Russian plan, we shouldn't be here today," he said.
When asked about reactions to the war in Germany, Kuleba explained that the majority of German society seemed to understand "that this attack is not just an attack on Ukraine, but an attack on Europe."
The difference is that Russian President Vladimir Putin is attacking Ukraine with rockets and tanks, "the German and European budgets with an energy crisis, inflation and his propaganda".
It is not the first time that the "daily topics" have been broadcast from abroad.
In 2020, the program for the US election came from Washington.
In 2012 there was a broadcast from Moscow and Hamburg because of the presidential election in Russia.
Baerbock on ZDF: “Reality is so brutal”
The six-month war was also the focus of news programs from other broadcasters on Wednesday.
The departing Ambassador of Ukraine in Germany, Andriy Melnyk, was a guest on ZDF's "Morgenmagazin" in the morning.
"German politics was shaken up from a dream that one could live in peace with Russia," he said.
The war was also reported on in the "heute-journal" of the same station.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said, among other things, that nobody can currently say whether Ukraine can win the war.
"That's how brutal reality is."
There were several »News Specials« on ntv.
On Thursday night, RTL ran a special edition of the "Nachtjournal" including an interview with the mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko.
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