News in Ukrainian every day for the more than 200,000 refugees who have already arrived in Germany since the Russian aggression to inform them about what is happening in Ukraine. To have had the idea, and to have already implemented it, is the German television station RTL which has hired one of the most popular Ukrainian TV presenters, Karolina Ashion, herself a refugee, for a news strip broadcast from Monday to Friday at 19 on the N-tv all news channel and on the N-tv YouTube channel. In the “Ukraine Update” format, Ashion offers viewers the most significant updates on the conflict in Ukraine and information on refugees’ lives in Germany every day.
It’s a start: in launching the initiative, RTL News CEO Stephan Schmitter anticipated that the broadcaster is working to strengthen the team working on verifying news with other Ukrainian journalists. Ashion arrived in Germany about ten days ago after an adventurous journey through Moldova and Romania. She drove to the Romanian border, then to Timisoara, where she was able to catch a flight to Dortmund. A 40 hour journey.
Her male colleagues who could not follow her – all Ukrainians between 18 and 60 cannot leave the country – are still broadcasting from bomb shelters in Kiev, she said at the presentation of the project, adding “the Germans saved me. , my life has changed dramatically, but I am Ukrainian and I want to be the voice of freedom for all those who are suffering from this war ».
Born 46 years ago in Russia to a Ukrainian and a Nigerian who met at university in St. Petersburg, raised in Ukraine by her mother alone as her father returned to Nigeria when she was 5, Ashion took over last year. a strong stance against racism in his country by making public, with a post on facebook, the accusation for what he suffered from the then executive producer of the television network “1 + 1” Oleksandr Tkachenkoche at the time of an audition for the conduct of a program morning. “Did you look in the mirror? – said the television producer who later became minister of culture and information in the government of Volodymyr Zelensky, referring to the amber color of his skin – our television audience is not that … our audience “.