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Simon Ostrovsky is a PBS NewsHour special correspondent and an award-winning freelance news and documentary producer. He has covered the former Soviet Union region for the past 20 years, including the crisis in Crimea, the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia, and the Russian occupation of Eastern Ukraine.

Since Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine four months ago, Ostrovsky has reported on war crimes, the disinformation plague and most recently, Russia’s “filtration camps”. We met in Brooklyn to discuss his work, his insights into Vladimir Putin, and his thoughts on Ireland’s response to the war.