![]() ![]() ![]() Arriving in a possibly occupied village, Kossov and the volunteers hear about two groups of people needing to be evacuated – some on Chekhov Street and one on Dostoevsky Street. On 22 March, he spends a day with two volunteer drivers, running supplies into the war zone outside Kyiv and extracting civilians. Igor Kossov stands out for the laconic charm of his writing. As the war progresses, the writing becomes more fluent, and the journalism goes more deeply into the experiences of people across Ukraine. Journalism is often called the first draft of history, but the early sections of this book read more like the first drafts of journalism – pieces rushed out at speed, under appalling conditions. Photograph: Kyiv IndependentĪs one reporter, Alexander Query, says, Ukrainian journalists have to “maintain a certain detachment to talk about Ukraine’s war wounds despite the pain, like an amputee who forces their eyes to stay open during the operation”. ![]() Notes from underground: the Kyiv Independent’s editor-in-chief, Olga Rudenko, working in a metro station during an air-raid alert in December 2022. ![]()
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