could not speak 18 languages, although i admit it would be much better when i would speak ukrainian sokhilie perfectly understood in arabic or farsi. but often this is impossible, so i relied on the help of local journalists, and in a certain sense, it was the best way to work, because these are people who have a good command of the situation on the spot, they know the country very well, it is completely different things will be a local journalist when your own country is at war, for example, how do you feel now when ukraine is the last war and ukrainian journalists are doing incredible work foreign journalists will never be able to do it yes, but they are able to do something else, which is to add these stories to the context of maybe past warriors , past experiences, and also present it in a larger global picture, which i think is important because sometimes if you are in the epicenter of history , this is lacking, it happened to me many times, for example sarayev because i was so immersed in a bubble during the siege that i didn't know what was happening in the outside world after that,