This is what they're dealing with - vast swathes of the country unusable and lethal, estimates for cleaning it up in the tens or even hundreds of years.

& pics from demining ops with @minesadvisorygroup.bsky.social & @herorats.bsky.social - thanks to these great teams for having me

pics from the UXO/mine-contaminated (but beautiful) countryside - open steppe, golden fields, blue skies, red landmine warning signs

Russian mines are endangering fighters, farmers and children across liberated Ukraine. Now Kyiv wants to set its own traps for the invaders, writes @jenstout.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...

5/ The agreement would also require Ukraine to hand over its heavily fortified defensive lines, much as Neville Chamberlain's Munich Agreement did to Czechoslovakia in 1938. Russia's next invasion of Ukraine would be made far easier.

@jenstout.bsky.social and I discuss:

- What it was like being in Moscow on the eve of the invasion

- Why she was compelled to cover the conflict

- How Putin uses and abuses Russian and Ukrainian history

open.spotify.com/episode/2ueb...

Big load of haar means temp inversion, as I understand it, but not usually leading to this mirage effect.

That was last night - tonight you're haary too!
This eve was extraordinary - Fata Morgana effect, all of Fife coast was towering, stretched-out mirage shapes, utterly surreal. Will get pics off camera tomorrow.

Thank you! It's a quote of Pavlo Kazarin, when he was speaking at Lviv Book Forum in 2022.

Absolutely. I can really recommend LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING by Victoria Donovan, out in April, I just read the proof copy. All about Donbas, landscapes, people, mining, extractive colonial history, and very vivid and personal.

Thanks so much!

I'm late to this but thank you! Hope you enjoyed it.