Every major news report from Ukraine relies on a fixer: the local expert who finds sources, arranges access, translates, reads the danger, and guides visiting reporters through a place they could never navigate alone. Indispensable, yet almost invisible.

In this speakers’ corner, Ukrainian fixer Oksana Leuta will draw on her own work, including an ARTE report she helped produce on the underground life of Ukrainians sheltering in bunkers and metro stations, to show what the job really involves. Whether you work in media or simply follow the news from Ukraine, this is a rare chance to see the war and the reporting of it, through the eyes of one of the people who make that coverage possible.