Newscenter Home / 2022 / May / andrew-kramer Could 03, 2022 By Haneen Zain UC Santa Cruz alumnus Andrew Kramer, a reporter for the New York Instances has been on the bottom in Ukraine delivering breaking information from Ukraine since Russia’s invasion on the finish of February.
The tales he tells, both by way of articles, images, or movies, shed additional mild on the atrocities dedicated towards Ukraine and spotlight the willpower of its folks.
From dwell protection of occasions on the bottom to reporting the aftermath of the destruction of Ukrainian cities, Kramer’s tales doc the conflict and preserve the world knowledgeable.
One among Kramer’s more moderen articles, printed on April 27, emphasizes the grit and braveness of residents in Demydiv, a village north of Kyiv.
Ukrainian troops opened a close-by dam in Demyiv, flooding the houses and streets of residents to maintain Russian troops at bay. “The residents of Demydiv paid the value within the rivers of dank inexperienced floodwater that engulfed lots of their houses.
They usually couldn’t be extra happy,” Kramer’s New York Times article reads. “‘All people understands and no one regrets it for a second,’ stated Antonina Kostuchenko, a retiree, whose lounge is now a musty area with waterlines a foot or so up the partitions. ‘We saved Kyiv!’ she stated with pleasure.” His other articles cowl press conferences with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the U.S. response to the conflict, tales of refugees, and extra.
Kramer has labored for the Related Press, The Washington Submit, and The San Francisco Chronicle and shares a Pulitzer Prize for worldwide reporting on Russian energy with New York Instances colleagues.
Beforehand, Kramer was a part of a staff on the Related Press that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize on worldwide reporting in 1999.
Kramer graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a B.A. in historical past in 1994, and a grasp’s in historical past from Oxford College.