Photojournalist describes what Russia left behind in Bucha: 'It's apocalyptic'

[riversedge]

Source: yahoo.com





Yahoo News

Caitlin Dickson, Sam Matthews and Yahoo News Photo Staff
Fri, April 22, 2022, 4:00 AM


Photojournalist Carol Guzy has witnessed her fair share of death and destruction over the past four decades. The four-time Pulitzer Prize winner has documented the humanitarian toll of some of the world’s most horrific wars and natural disasters, from Haiti to Kosovo.

But from the beginning, there was something different about the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine. For one thing, Guzy told Yahoo News, like many Ukrainians, she never expected that Russia would actually invade its neighbor this time around.
Destroyed homes, burnt-out tanks and bodies in the streets of Bucha, Ukraine.




For the “first time in 40 years, I’ve had this unbelievable feeling of dread that I couldn’t shake, and I still have it,” Guzy said. “I’m not sure if the dread is like a warning to me [for] my personal safety or it’s just been this overwhelming evil that’s happening.”

Rather than head for the frontlines, Guzy decided she would cover the war from the fringes, focusing primarily on stories about refugees. But as she watched the civilian casualties mount, she found staying on the sidelines in this conflict more difficult than she had expected.
A wrecked vehicle and dead body on a street in Bucha, Ukraine.

“This is such a weird war. It’s like there’s no place that’s really safe for anyone,” Guzy said, referring to the blatant attacks on civilian sites that have come to define Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...................

Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/photojournalist-describes-what-russia-left-behind-in-bucha-its-apocalyptic-090001901.html

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lots of photos at link. Many are hard to look at.

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Wreckage of war and bodies, including some that appear to be Russian soldiers, in the streets of Bucha on April 3. (Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press)


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The body of a man covered in a "USA" T-shirt is exhumed from a home in Irpin that was hit by an airstrike. (Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press)

[erronis]

1. There are many horrendous photos of brutality committed by the russians. History will not be kind.

History can no longer be rewritten by the victors of regional battles. It will stay with the national and international psyches for millennia.

Russia and putin will pay eventually. I truly feel sorry for the average russian who has rarely known truth and trust in government. But there must be reparations.

[Evolve Dammit]

2. FUCK PUTIN and Russia. That is all. n/t

[Marthe48]

3. A movie called Miracle of the The White Stallions

(1963) About the Spanish Riding school in Vienna, Austria. The school trained riders and Lippazzaner horses in dressage. After WWII, Austria was divided into 4 sectors, the same as Germany was. Russia had seized the Budapest Riding School and had eaten the horses. The horses in Vienna were destined for the same fate. The movie is a Disney production about the events which saved the horses from the the russian troops. I saw the movie when I was 11 and it had a terrific impact on me. I got to see a traveling show of the horses when I was an adult and I remain glad the herd wasn't butchered and eaten by russians.

Long story short, I have no doubt that russia has brutalized Ukraine and left it in ruins.

Here is a lunk to IMDB about the movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057312/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[Martin68]

4. This is truly horrific.

[ck4829]

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