"Enlightening, frightening, heart-wrenchingly and poetically descriptive.”
“Joseph Lindsley’s Reports Are So Informative They Should Be Shared Nationwide”
For 10 minutes a day every single weekday of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Joe Lindsley has reported from Ukraine on Chicago’s WGN Radio. Watch or listen here.
LATEST EPISODE
War Day 635: A Pianist's Melody Echoes in a Kyiv Park, While Ukraine Deflects Russian Winter Attacks
WGN Radio Report, 28 Dec: Undercover Ukrainians in Russia
27 December Report: Mysterious Strikes on Russian Airbases; How Christmas Gives Ukrainians Power
How Do Ukrainians Celebrate Christmas?
WGN RADIO REPORT: Why Do So Many American Freedom-Lovers Oppose Zelenskiy?
WGN RADIO REPORT: What Was the Greatest Moment of Tension in Zelenskiy's Visit to Washington?
WGN RADIO REPORT: Carol of the Bells: How Ukrainian Christmas Rituals Give Power Amid Darkness
Ukraine's Fight: Freedom vs the Elites
WGN Radio REPORT: Dickensian Defiance: The Power of Ukrainian Christmas
WGN RADIO REPORT: A Difficult Question: What Must Happen to Russia?
WGN Report, 12 Dec: How the War is One—Singing and Strategizing for Victory in Ukraine's Carpathian Mountains
Why Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, And Jordan Peterson Should Visit Ukraine
'Every Night I Have a Little Cry--and The Next Morning I'm Ready to Work Again For Victory
WGN Ukraine Report, 7 Dec: WGN Ukraine Report: Why the New York Times is Wrong About Ukraine and Escalation
At the Edge of the Free World, Ukrainians Sing 'Chervona Ruta' in Oft-Bombed Kharkiv
WGN Ukraine Report, 5 Dec: Russian Church in Ukraine is Kremlin Spy Agency, Not Christianity
WGN Ukraine Report, 1 Dec: Ukraine, 'the best self-help book'; if you love freedom, come here
WGN Ukraine Report: Glen Hansard's New Song, Banksy's Graffiti Where People Live Among the Rubble
Scenes of Ukrainian Resilience, Hope, Thanksgiving, Music—Amid Russian Darkness and Destruction
WGN Ukraine Report: Adapting to Life in Candlelight; Stories of the Wounded
Near-Daily Ukraine War Journal: 'This is the Realest Thing I've Ever Done in My Life'
WGN Ukraine Report, Nov 10: Sean Penn's Bulletproof Vest, Odesa, Crimean Culture on the Black Sea Coat
WGN Ukraine Report, 23 Nov: Thanks and Transformations Amid Blackouts and Airstrikes
WGN Ukraine Report: Ukrainians Share Pain Through Songs and Poems from a Lviv Café
'Escalation' is a Kremlin Word, Used to Discourage Ukrainian Victory
The Story of the Nikopol Grasshopper Hiding in a Car, Now Destroyed by Russian Shells
WGN Ukraine Report, 18 Nov: Russia Is Fighting the Ukrainian People, not the 'Kyiv Regime'
WGN Ukraine Report: Greetings to the City of Chicago from Displaced Ukrainians in a Lviv Café
WGN Ukraine Report, 17 Nov: Death of a Ukrainian Jewish Warrior; Snow Returns to Medieval Lviv Streets
WGN Ukraine Report, 16 Nov: Victory vs Escalation: Why Russia Has to be Stopped
WGN Ukraine Report: Psychology of war—Why do some people feel more alive during air-alarms?
WGN Ukraine Report: Lviv citizens kneel for fallen Taiwanese warrior
WGN Ukraine Report from Edge of Kherson: How a Ukrainian Mayor Stands Against Russians, Corruption
WGN Ukraine Report 8 Nov, from Kyiv: How Ukrainians Calmly Get Stuck in Elevators
A Mission Amid Shelling to Recently-Liberated Village
WGN Ukraine Report, 2 miles to Russia: 'Under occupation, there was no life"
WGN Ukraine Report, from Kharkiv: 'If you ran for cover every time, you'd always be in shelter'
Near-Daily Ukraine War Journal, 1 November: Why is Russia Invading Ukraine?
WGN Radio Ukraine Report: Putin’s Multi-Layered and Contradictory Propaganda
WGN Radio Ukraine Report: The Reunion of Bold Volunteers in Kharkiv, the edge of the free world
WGN Radio Ukraine Report: Mental Clarity Amid Putin's Nuclear Charade and Air-Raid Alarms
WGN Radio Ukraine Report: Reagan and Churchill Warned Against Appeasement; Some in Congress Cave
WGN Radio Ukraine Report: Live from a Kyiv Rooftop During an Air-Raid Alarm
Ukrainian Freedom News: The wild story—so far—of free people standing for democracy, faith, dignity
WGN Radio Ukraine Report —The cheerful defiance of the Ukrainians amid infrastructure threats
WGN Radio Ukraine Report: St Michaels Monastery and the Maidan Revolution
Ukrainian Resilience: Arriving in Kyiv Amid Russian-Iranian Drone Strike
Ukrainian Resilience: The Night Train from Lviv to Kyiv, on Eve of Russian Escalation
Near-Daily War Journal—19 October: The bodyguards of the civilised world vs the horsemen of the apocalypse
Near-Daily Ukraine War Journal: After a Scary Week, Friends Share Real Talk in a Lviv Café
11 October WGN Radio Report: 'Everything Will Be Good'—Cheerful Defiance in the Fight to Keep Freedom
13 October Near-Daily War Journal: 'War is Not a Pop Song'
NEAR-DAILY WAR JOURNAL: Update from Ukraine on a Scary Day of Massive Strikes, Limited Comms, and Great Uncertainty
WGN Radio: A Time for Dark Humor and Deep Conversations: Amid Steady Ukrainian Gains, Nuclear Fears Swirl
How Ukrainians and Iranians Reject the Victim Mentality So Prevalent in Russia and the USA
WGN Radio: Daily Ukraine Report on Chicago's WGN: 'War is Not a Pop Song' — Turning Emotions of War into Music
WGN RADIO: Watch How Putin Is Changing the Narrative
WGN RADIO: Nordstream, Hobbits, Orcs, and PTSD
Near-Daily Ukraine War Journal, 9/30: “We Are a Subject, Not an Object”
Near-Daily Ukraine War Journal, 9/29: "Bella Ciao," Song of Protest from Ukraine to Iran and Beyond
WGN RADIO: Pipeline Mysteries; Brazen Forced Elections to Break Spirits
Near-Daily Ukraine War Journal: What Happens to Coronavirus in War-time?
Near-Daily Ukraine War Journal, 9/26: Cooking in an Odesa Jazz Bomb Shelter
WGN Radio: For Russians, the worst crime is to disobey rulers. For Ukrainians, worst thing is not being free
22 September—From Chicago's WGN: Air-Alarm Music Shows 'Elegance of Ukrainian Resistance'
18 September: In the Worst Times, You Meet the Best People
Why Did Russell Crowe Say I 'F-ing Hate Joe Lindsley'? Report from Odesa
Daily WGN Radio Report: 'Terror in Voice' During Visit to Kharkiv
15 Sept: Notes About Freedom from Lviv and from a train
Chicago's WGN: "Move your fats" —a tribute to Odesa’s jokes, cuisine, jazz
9/14: Yakiv, Ukrainian Jazz Trumpeter on Air-Alarm Creativity
9 September: The benefits of a monarchy?
7 September: What Do Americans Want to Know about the Ukraine War?
6 September: A Debate About Evacuations, from Kharkiv, Amid Explosions
9/6: Taking a train to Kharkiv, the dangerous edge of the free world
2 September: Making Punk Music Because "We Need to Live Through This"
Finding mushrooms and enjoying a meal in Ukraine's Carpathian mountains: surviving during war
19 August: A conversation during an air-alarm amid nuclear worries
Ukraine—the boldest democracy in the world?
11 August: Is There Free Speech in War-time? A talk among three friends
Ukrainian Freedom Supply: Here's Our Drone in Action in Donetsk
10 August: The Zarinok, or how Ukrainian democracy works; with Volodymyr Kebalo
On Chicago's WGN Radio: Joe Lindsley's story of starving at Chuck Norris's house (or, "how hospitality is better in Ukrainian trenches than at Chuck's house)
8 August: Hello from the Carpathian Mountains
5 August: Is It Okay to be Depressed During War-time?
4 August: The war in your mind: fighting it, in a real war
29 July: Better to be afraid of being fake than of being wrong
28 July: Why do some people go to fight other countries’ battles?
27: Of course the Russians are using food and gas as weapons
26 July, with Ukrainian Yuriy Sadoviy and American Joe Lindsley
25 July: Spooks, or Spies, and War
23 July: “When one power is making shit, the second is fixing”
21 July: Tirade About Russian Menus in Ukrainian City
20 July: From HIMARS to Low Earth
Ukrainian Freedom News: Singing in the Shadow of Russian Mordor
19 July: “The Soldiers, their faces: it was something brilliant'
14 July: The Vinnytsia Massacre
Time of Tears; Too Much Emotion to Say Any Word to Anyone
12 July: "Extreme Ways" and Strange People
'American Dog'; Plus: Friendship between Boris and Volodymyr
'You Have to Find the Power in Yourself to Tell the Truth'
Near-Daily Ukraine War Journal: 12 June: Probably the Last Episode
Near-Daily Ukraine War Journal—15 June: How an American Charity is Saving Ukrainian Lives