{"id":2760,"date":"2026-09-25T11:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=2760"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:34:45","slug":"reporting-under-drone-infested-skies-stories-from-ukraines-front-line","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/event\/reporting-under-drone-infested-skies-stories-from-ukraines-front-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting Under Drone-Infested Skies: Stories from Ukraine&#8217;s Front Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                                                        <\/div>\n        \n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">The Eastern Europe and Transatlantic Network (EETN), in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unb.ca\/greggcentre\/\">the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society at the University of New Brunswick<\/a>, is pleased to welcome Francis Farrell, front-line reporter at the Kyiv Independent, for a talk on what it means to report on Russia&#8217;s war against Ukraine from the front lines, where drones now shape nearly every aspect of daily life and combat.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"about-the-speaker\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the speaker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Francis Farrell is an Australian journalist and front-line reporter at the Kyiv Independent, Ukraine&#8217;s biggest independent English-language media outlet. Since 2022, he has covered Russia&#8217;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&#8217;s war on Ukrainian civilians. Francis is an alumnus of Leiden University in the Netherlands and University College London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Seating is limited, so please register in advance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":560,"featured_media":2765,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[52,48,60,47],"cu_event_audience":[5],"class_list":["post-2760","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_event_type-eetn-event","cu_event_type-security","cu_event_type-ukraine","cu_event_type-upcoming-event","cu_event_audience-anyone"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2026-10-13 14:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2026-10-13 16:00:00","cu_event_add_to_calendar":"show","cu_event_location_type":"hybrid","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_building":"PA","cu_event_meeting_room":"201","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_post_thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.carleton.ca\/truth\/images\/1934\/event-cal.jpg","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2760\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}