{"id":17406,"date":"2026-10-09T14:41:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=17406"},"modified":"2026-10-09T14:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:58:18","slug":"reporting-under-drone-infested-skies-stories-from-ukraines-front-line","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/event\/reporting-under-drone-infested-skies-stories-from-ukraines-front-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting Under Drone-Infested Skies: Stories from Ukraine\u2019s 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>The Eastern Europe and Transatlantic Network (EETN), in partnership with&nbsp;<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\u2019s 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\u2019s biggest independent English-language media outlet. Since 2022, he has covered Russia\u2019s 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\u2019s 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>Seating is limited, so please register in advance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":17408,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[86,87],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-17406","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_event_type-86","cu_event_type-eetn"],"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":"","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":{"title":"Registration","url":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/event\/reporting-under-drone-infested-skies-stories-from-ukraines-front-line\/","target":""},"cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/17406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/17406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17410,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/17406\/revisions\/17410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=17406"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=17406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}