The Nuts and Bolts of Conflict Reporting

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iam a two time accidental, unwitting conflict. Reported bothf in both times it was and the result of russia invading ukraine. I compered the war in donbas in two thousand 14 and a little bit two thousand 15. The strategy i settled on for this long story that ive just published in new york was essentially to write about what does it look like when,. especiall, in the case of kie, a city that i have been to many, many times over the years? What happens when, in the span of a few days, war comes to your doorstep?

Joshua Yaffa is a correspondent for The New Yorker, the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia, and has been reporting from Ukraine for the last several weeks. His most recent article is "What the Russian Invasion Has Done to Ukraine."

“I’m not at all a conflict reporter. I don't like it, though who would like being in these situations? But this is the story, right? If you cover this part of the world, if the war in 2014 felt like the tectonic plates of history were shifting, now they're just erupting, crashing. This is the asteroid-impact event for this part of the world with effects that will last similarly long going forward.”

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