What's it like to cover the war in Ukraine? NPR's Kyiv correspondent explains.

NPR | By Noah Caldwell,

Scott Detrow, Joanna Kakissis

Published May 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM EDT

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Joanna Kakissis discusses what it's like to cover the war in Ukraine for our latest Reporter's Notebook.

Just this week, the Trump administration signed a deal to share revenues from Ukraine's mineral wealth. But how are Ukrainians responding — and what's it like to cover the ongoing conflict?

Noah Caldwell

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Scott Detrow

Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

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Joanna Kakissis

Joanna Kakissis is a foreign correspondent based in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she reports poignant stories of a conflict that has upended millions of lives, affected global energy and food supplies and pitted NATO against Russia.

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