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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.
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