REMAINS - Excerpt 8April
Borodyanka “The destruction in the town centre was the worst we have seen. High rise apartment buildings had been collapsed with the inhabitants buried in the rubble. We were ahead of the media and among the first to document this. Hellen almost picked up a fake baby wrapped tightly in swaddling clothes, a booby trap to deceive someone into thinking it was a real baby. Luckily, I was able to call a warning to her. The rubble and all around have been heavily mined. My years of experience with minefields meant I could negotiate the area and get footage without us being harmed. Europe has not seen this intensity of bombardment of civilian targets since Bosnia and WWll . Sarajevo all over again ……. will wars in Europe?” ever end?
Issue 46 - May 2022
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