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The Guardian - UK
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Isobel Koshiw, Dan Sabbagh, Daniel Boffey, Emma Graham-Harrison and Luke Harding

‘Ordinary Ukrainians are so generous’: five writers on a year of war reporting

Isobel Koshiw smiling while typing on a laptop in the back of a car wearing a helmet and press flak jacket
Isobel Koshiw reporting in Ukraine. Photograph: Isobel Koshiw/The Guardian

Isobel Koshiw: ‘There must have been more than 100 bodies lying in the courtyard’

There are so many moments that stand out in my mind. We were driving through Kharkiv in March, a week after Russian airstrikes destroyed a lot of the city centre. It was empty, the windows on almost every building blown out by the blasts and courtyards full of rubble. Dima Yatsenko, our driver at the time, turned to me and said: “It’s like I’m in a nightmare.”

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