Radiolab | Ukraine: Under the Counter | Radiolab Podcast @Radiolabpod | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
From the Radiolab podcast: With NPR’s Rough Translation, we tell the story of a smuggling operation and a wartime mission.

In the weeks following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a young doctor in Germany sees that abortion pills are urgently needed in Ukraine. And she wants to help. But getting the drugs into the country means going through Poland, which has some of the strictest abortion laws in Europe. So, she gets creative. What unfolds is a high-stakes, covert-operation run by a group of strangers. With everyone deciding: who to trust? In collaboration with NPR’s Rough Translation, we find out what happened.

This episode is the first of two done in collaboration with NPR’s Rough Translation. You can find the second episode here: youtu.be/PE0J6aqciiI

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