Trey Yingst: How Journalists Are Telling The Stories Of Everyday Ukrainians And Making People Care

Fox News Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to detail his experience covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“I’ve covered a lot of war zones and this one feels to me, and it could be in part because we’re in the middle of this war right now, this one feels different in the way that there is still room for this humanity to shine through. But it is so widespread and so serious for the entire population of Ukraine that it’s limited in how much people are lighthearted because they are literally experiencing a nightmare. It’s unfolding all around them. It’s the sirens. When there are air raids, it’s the explosions in the distance. It’s watching their children or trying to shield their children from seeing bodies in the streets. It’s these really heavy, heavy things. But amid that, there are these moments of humanity, and sometimes it’s just helping an old lady across a bridge that’s been bombed out and she’s escaping her home. Sometimes, as we saw in the metro system of Kiev, someone sharing a piece of bread with another person who is sheltering, trying to get away from the bombing. And so you have all of these moments together, and I think it’s important to highlight them in our coverage because it’s really easy amid the chaos to just focus on the bombs and the bullets and the loud bangs that happened behind us. But we have to, as journalists, dig into that and figure out, well, who’s affected here and how do we make people care about their story?”

To hear what else Trey had to say, listen to the podcast!