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Philip Malzahn
Senior Correspondent
Philip Malzahn serves as an in-house correspondent for UNITED24 Media, with a focus on reporting in Ukraine’s war zones. Born in Blantyre, Malawi, in 1991. Grew up in Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates. Studied Arabic in Leipzig, Cairo, and Vienna. As a freelance correspondent, he has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Ukraine, Chechnya, and others. For a couple of years, he worked as an editor responsible for Middle East coverage at the German daily newspaper Neues Deutschland.
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To become a Special Forces Operator in Ukraine, you first have to survive selection: six days and six nights of crawling, marching, exhaustion, and pain. I joined the process—twice—to look behind the curtain of one of the country's most secretive military units. I didn't pass (big surprise), but I came away with a deeper understanding of the people fighting in Russia's war against Ukraine.![Intercepting Iranian Drones with the Help of Khartiia Brigade and Ukrainian Technology]( "Intercepting Iranian Drones with the Help of Khartiia Brigade and Ukrainian Technology")
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Article with video![How Ukraine Took the Fight Into Russia: General Syrskyi Reconstructs War’s Boldest Operation—Kursk]( "How Ukraine Took the Fight Into Russia: General Syrskyi Reconstructs War’s Boldest Operation—Kursk")
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With drone swarms and real-time satellite feeds, how do you hide an army? How do you cross a border that the enemy spent months fortifying? Ukraine found out in August 2024, when its forces entered Russia’s Kursk region and launched its offensive. This is how it happened.
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