For those interested, I have written a piece about Yaroslav Trofimov and have recorded a podcast with Phillips O’Brien. Trofimov is the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of the Wall Street Journal. O’Brien is a professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews. Each has important things to say about the Ukraine war, in his own way.
Trofimov has been a war correspondent for decades. He has covered wars in the Middle East, in particular. For the Journal, he served as a correspondent in Iraq. He was also the paper’s bureau chief in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In recent years, he has been covering Ukraine. His reporting has been invaluable. This war is different for him, given that he was born and raised in Ukraine.
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