‘Overnight we all became war correspondents’: Ukraine’s local newspapers face battle to stay alive
- In the weeks leading up to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the headlines in a Kyiv newspaper looked much like they would anywhere else.
- There was some debate over whether Russia would actually attack its neighbour.
- But then, outside of politics, there was everything else: the tourists stuck abroad, changes to school meals and the spread of the Omicron variant of the Covid.
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- In the weeks leading up to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the headlines in a Kyiv newspaper looked much like they would anywhere else.
- There was some debate over whether Russia would actually attack its neighbour.
- But then, outside of politics, there was everything else: the tourists stuck abroad, changes to school meals and the spread of the Omicron variant of the Covid.
Sources: The Independent