– Together they will be able to approach people and make reports and report news that will be important now that we will soon enter the second year of the war, says NRK foreign affairs editor Sigurd Falkenberg Mikkelsen about the team of correspondents.
Kari Skeie and Gunnar Bratthammer will form NRK’s new team of correspondents in Ukraine next year.
Kari Skeie is a foreign affairs officer and has long worked closely with Russia, Eastern Europe and the Nordic region. She also speaks Russian.
Gunnar Bratthammer is one of NRK’s most experienced photographers and has worked extensively in Ukraine and other challenging areas.
– It is important to be present
– Being present in Ukraine is of great journalistic importance. The NRK has been around almost continuously since before Russia went into full invasion, says the foreign affairs editor.
Mikkelsen can tell you that NRK is now setting up a permanent team in Kyiv.
– It will be important to better understand Ukraine and be able to thoroughly and in detail report on the progress of the war. It is becoming important now that the war is entering its second year, says Sigurd Falkenberg Mikkelsen.
– This war affects the whole world, and especially our European continent, he adds.
– Exciting
Incoming correspondent Kari Skeie is looking forward to the new day of the week.
– Living and working in Ukraine in the future will be incredibly exciting. There is great seriousness attached to the work and high expectations for what we will deliver. The goal is to produce good journalism, she says.
Skeie hopes they will be able to find other kinds of stories behind the picture on the daily news, as well as following developments in the war.
– It becomes important when we have to be present in time, he says.
Gunnar Bratthammer on the field. He worked a lot in Ukraine after the invasion of Russia.
Photo: NRK
Photographer Gunnar Bratthammer is also looking forward to work.
– It will be cold this winter, but what other twists will this war take? We don’t know now. That’s why it’s important that we are present, as eyewitnesses who can report on ongoing developments, she says.
– I look forward to getting even closer to the people and life in Ukraine than I have so far this year on more sporadic reporting trips, he adds.
