Interview with Anastasiia Lapatina, Ukrainian war correspondent and UBC Political Science student
Fourth-year Political Science student Anastasiia Lapatina reflects on her time in Ukraine, shares her thoughts on the state of the war, and how it feels to be back in Canada.
Political Science student and aspiring war correspondent Anastasiia Lapatina on documenting the Russian invasion of Ukraine
“I don’t know if I am staying strong or coping. I, very often, kind of go into a very dark place in my mind because it’s very overwhelming,” says UBC Okanagan student Anastasiia Lapatina. Still, she continues reporting for The Kyiv Independent, and has no plans of stopping: “I really care about human stories.”
Pandemic and Putin turn UBC Political Science student into war correspondent
UBC Political Science student Anastasiia Lapatina has spent the last four months covering Russia’s invasion of her homeland, Ukraine, while studying political science full-time.