Reporting Under Drone-Infested Skies: Stories from Ukraine’s Front Line

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Hybrid event
201, Paterson Hall, Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

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The Eastern Europe and Transatlantic Network (EETN), in partnership with the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society at the University of New Brunswick, is pleased to welcome Francis Farrell, front-line reporter at the Kyiv Independent, for a talk on what it means to report on Russia’s war against Ukraine from the front lines, where drones now shape nearly every aspect of daily life and combat.

About the speaker

Francis Farrell is an Australian journalist and front-line reporter at the Kyiv Independent, Ukraine’s biggest independent English-language media outlet. Since 2022, he has covered Russia’s war against Ukraine from the front lines, frequently embedding with the Ukrainian military, speaking to top commanders and analysts, and also documenting Russian war crimes and the toll of Moscow’s war on Ukrainian civilians. Francis is an alumnus of Leiden University in the Netherlands and University College London.

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