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TGIF: David v. Goliath Edition
A military drill for civilians carried out by the Movement of the Veterans of Zakarpattia in western Ukraine in February. (SerhiiHudak/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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By Nellie Bowles
03.04.22 — TGIF
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Hello and welcome back. 

→Ukraine continues to hold against Russia: It’s very hard to separate the signal from the noise. To figure out what is wishful thinking—can David really beat Goliath?—what is propaganda, and what is lost or hidden in the fog of war.

Remember that incredible feat of Ukrainian heroism that went viral in the early days of the war? Of…

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a co-founder for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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