Anna Conkling

Anna Conkling is an independent foreign correspondent covering war and conflict, human rights violations, and climate change. Her work primarily focuses on Russia's war in Ukraine and has been featured in Business Insider, France24, Foreign Policy, Scripps News, The Daily Beast, The Sunday Times, and The Telegraph. Additionally, she is the Ukraine correspondent for Noosphere App, a journalism platform that connects subscribers directly to independent journalists covering the U.S and foreign news. She has also reported from Armenia, Greece, and Lebanon.

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Pokrovsk residents react to Trump

Nearly one year later, Trump has still failed to achieve peace for Ukraine and yesterday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that his country will not cede land to Russia, which Moscow and Washington have both pushed for. I went to the frontline city of Pokorvsk, which Russia has now claimed to have taken control of. I spoke with residents about their views on Trump and whether they thought he could end the war. Here is what one resident, Sergey, told me as he waited for humanitarian aid