Balmost four years.
An unnamed butcher shop with a terrifying amount.
300,000 Russian troops were killed and, perhaps, 100,000 Ukrainian troops.
Cities were destroyed.
Time has returned from the land of bloodshed, with Putin elevating the dual legacy of Stalin and Hitler.
And all this for what?
A village is taken here.
A village was taken over there.
A motorized unit comes, just to take photos, put up a flag on the bell tower and sometimes just leave.
Months of horrific battles at Bakhmout and Tchassiv Yar (two battles I covered) or at Andriivka (a wonderful film by Mstyslav Chernov) to capture small towns left with nothing but piles of rubble.
Sixteen months of devastating attacks to try to occupy the well-known city of Pokrovsk, where I…
