COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — German broadcaster RTL has employed a Ukrainian presenter to host a every day information present for others…
COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — German broadcaster RTL has employed a Ukrainian presenter to host a every day information present for others who’ve fled their homeland after the Russian invasion.
The industrial broadcaster mentioned Karolina Ashion will current a 10-minute Ukrainian-language information program Mondays to Fridays addressed to the just about 200,000 individuals who have already arrived in Germany from Ukraine up to now month.
“We need to attain the people who find themselves fleeing proper now, who’ve to depart their residence nation, who could not converse English, and that’s why we’re making a information supply in Ukrainian,” mentioned Malte Baumberger, the challenge supervisor for RTL’s “Ukraine Replace” program. “In order that these individuals can discover out what’s going on of their nation proper now and what’s the political scenario.”
Ashion solely made it to Germany a couple of week in the past herself, following an arduous journey from Kyiv by way of Moldova and Romania.
Her male colleagues, who aren’t allowed to depart Ukraine if they’re between 18 and 60, are nonetheless broadcasting out of a bomb shelter within the nation’s capital, she mentioned.
“My life has modified fully,” Ashion mentioned. “However I’m Ukrainian, and I need to be like a voice of freedom for individuals. For all of the individuals affected by this (struggle).”
RTL mentioned it’s planning on additional increasing their “Ukraine Replace” information supply by hiring extra Ukrainian journalists. The present is accessible by way of varied RTL and N-TV on-line platforms and YouTube.
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