You’ve been embedded with Ukrainian units on the frontlines throughout this war. How difficult is it to report in those circumstances? And how do you decide what makes it into your stories that the world gets to read and watch?To get to the very front where actual combat is happening is challenging in any war. No-one wants a journalist killed on their frontline.
But it’s been especially challenging in Ukraine where there was active resistance to showing you the sharp end, if you like.
But over time I built relationships with people who could make that happen and with commanders on the ground.
You stay in touch with them and trust is built and they know that you’re not going to hold them back in the midst of battle, so you get to where the action is happening.
We have had the time to spend long periods with soldiers, national guardsmen and territorial defence units and that has allowed us to show the reality of the defence of Ukraine.
Obviously there are the bang bang moments where rockets and missiles land close, or tank fire whistles overhead, but I’ve always been as interested in the people fighting, surviving the war - the characters in this great awful event - and how they respond and adapt. เว็บบอล