The producer’s voice crackled in Olena’s earpiece: “We go live in thirty seconds. Just speak from the heart.”
“That,” she said softly, “is the sound of Odessa refusing to be a ghost.” bbcsurprise odessa
“Ten seconds.”
She was a librarian, not a journalist. But when the BBC team had arrived asking for someone who remembered the city before 2022, her colleagues pushed her forward. The producer’s voice crackled in Olena’s earpiece: “We
She paused.