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<\/p>\n Renowned journalist comes home to WCVB<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Updated: 6:22 PM EDT Oct 23, 2025<\/p>\n Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/span><\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Martha Raddatz has covered every global conflict imaginable for decades, but she never forgets that her journey started right here in Boston \u2014 at WCVB. “It’s like coming home, it really is,” she told NewsCenter 5’s Ed Harding during a visit this week. “I get chills when I drive up here. I tell people, ‘This is really where I grew up.'”Raddatz has gone on to become the chief global affairs correspondent for ABC News. She has been on the ground in Ukraine and in the middle of the conflict in the Middle East. “When you go to Ukraine, the people, the morale is so strong,” Raddatz said. “They’re fighting for their homeland. And that’s the difference with Putin. He thinks it’s his homeland. It’s not.”Raddatz has interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy three times now. Harding asked her what she sees when she looks in his eyes. “I think you see somebody who, more than anything, just wants to bring peace for his people,” she said. “He has seen the suffering. He wants it to end.”As for the Middle East, Harding asked if she thinks the fragile peace there will hold. “I don’t know,” Raddatz said. “My first trip there was for WCVB.” She said she is still in touch with the families she met then, decades ago. “I don’t think they have a great deal of confidence that it will {hold}.”<\/p>\n “It’s like coming home, it really is,” she told NewsCenter 5’s Ed Harding during a visit this week. “I get chills when I drive up here. I tell people, ‘This is really where I grew up.'”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Raddatz has gone on to become the chief global affairs correspondent for ABC News. She has been on the ground in Ukraine and in the middle of the conflict in the Middle East. <\/p>\n “When you go to Ukraine, the people, the morale is so strong,” Raddatz said. “They’re fighting for their homeland. And that’s the difference with Putin. He thinks it’s his homeland. It’s not.”<\/p>\n Raddatz has interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy three times now. Harding asked her what she sees when she looks in his eyes. <\/p>\n “I think you see somebody who, more than anything, just wants to bring peace for his people,” she said. “He has seen the suffering. He wants it to end.”<\/p>\n As for the Middle East, Harding asked if she thinks the fragile peace there will hold. <\/p>\n “I don’t know,” Raddatz said. “My first trip there was for WCVB.” <\/p>\n She said she is still in touch with the families she met then, decades ago. <\/p>\n “I don’t think they have a great deal of confidence that it will {hold}.”<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Renowned journalist comes home to WCVB After getting her start in Boston, Martha Raddatz now reports from war zones across the globe. FIVE AT SIX. SHE HAS BEEN ALL OVER THE WORLD, ON THE GROUND IN EVERY WAR ZONE FOR DECADES. 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