Liz Cookman's year freelancing in Ukraine: 'Spirit-crushing but worth fighting for


Liz Cookman's year freelancing in Ukraine: 'Spirit-crushing but worth fighting for

Recent highlights:

1. I arrived in Ukraine in the first week of January amid US warnings of a Russian invasion and headed to the front line in the east before settling for over a month in Mariupol.

2. I was one of the only international journalists to remain in Mariupol after the invasion, but regular missile attacks and editors' safety fears meant it was difficult to report.

3. We – me, two Czech journalists and a Turkish photographer – escaped out of the last open checkpoint in Mariupol, manned by a single Ukrainian soldier who warned that he had no idea what lay ahead

#biyro #telaviv #ivanofrankivsk #mikolaiv #oslo

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