Ukraine-Russia, news in 6 languages: record-breaking journalist in Kiev – Video

News from Kiev on the Ukraine-Russia crisis in 6 English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Luxembourgish. A not inconsiderable detail: to give the latest news and explain what is happening is always the same polyglot journalist. When the winds of war rose in Ukraine, the media front, the correspondents and the connections from the hot zones for broadcasters from all over the world, obviously began to be mobilized. But these days from Kiev it is often the same journalist, Philip Crowther, who connects with news from around the world, passing with ease from English, to German, to French, to Spanish, Portuguese and Luxembourgish to tell the latest developments of the crisis Ukraine. The videos in which Crowther’s stand ups are mounted in six different languages ​​and for the different journalists, with the inevitable background of the Kiev Maidan behind them, are becoming viral on social media, causing great appreciation even from colleagues. “Fantastic, super wonderful, very great the polyglot correspondent of AP in Ukraine”, writes on Twitter the journalist Jeanne Perego of the 42-year-old journalist of the Associated Press in Kiev and of her polyglot correspondences. Born in Luxembourg to a British father and a German mother, Crowther was a White House correspondent for France24. He learned Spanish and Portuguese at the university, at King’s College in London, where he graduated in Hispanic Studies. Six-language coverage from #Kyiv with @AP_GMS. In this order: English, Luxembourgish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German. pic.twitter.com/kyEg0aCCoT— Philip Crowther (@PhilipinDC) February 21, 2022