Perous Secret Diary - Keep Out

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we are met and taken to the secret base of a paramilitary / national guard unit where WEM give another essential day of frontline medical training

stupidly i never pay enough attention to the course, as i am taking photographs or retouching photographs during the teaching

i DO know how important it is to practice the application of your OWN tourniquet when you have catastrophic bleeding (after you've been shot, or blown up, or shredded by shrapnel)

and i know how to approach a casualty under fire to best protect yourself

we all carry own IFAK's (individual first aid kits) but i'm probably the only one who doesn't know how to use it

despite being in 'red cross juniors' for a while as a kid AND my dad being in red cross for years and my brother still running first aid courses in England.

here's mark testing a tourniquet is on tight enough.

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cotton candy

the soldiers we meet today weren't soldiers till this war: they were students, farmers, policemen, cooks and programmers

everyday people that had to stop what they were doing and risk their lives to fight for their freedom and country.

brave people

FUCKING RUSSIANS!

after the training on this super hot day, two of the soldiers: andreii and yurii, who were both students a couple of months ago, offer to tour us around Hostomel, Bucha and Irpin city

where, if you've seen any news recently, you will know was the location of many hideous war crimes and the horrifying torture, rape and murder of civilians

we are following in Bono's footsteps: oof

yurii had a magic tree in his car...if you know me, you will know how difficult i found being a passenger in yurii's car

and you will be gobsmacked at my recently acquired maturity: i didn't ask yurii to throw his magic tree out his window

in fact i didnt comment at all, i just took this photo for your amusement

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in Hostomel, where the russians tried to take over the airport early on, we met people making scrim nets for camouflage

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Burberry

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russians dont target civilians...right

even though i am here, it's hard to imagine how frightening this felt just a couple of months ago when the russians were here

and the sounds that were heard

i'm frustrated that my pictures feel like still lives: they're almost silent

there needs to be the most catastrophic terrifying screams and explosions tearing through these images, like shrapnel through bodies

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T-64

T-64

sadly, this is ukranian tank

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cafe

cafe

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Irpin city

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the russians came in and deliberately destroyed the cultural centre here

they are deliberately trying to erase Ukrainians and their culture

and the Russians claim Ukrainians are 'Nazis'

its beyond ironic

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inside the cultural centre now

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this was the bowling alley

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we're concerned, as we cross paths with a famous Georgian singer and her security detail, on a similar tour of bucha and Irpin, that we are 'war tourists'

but i think its really important to see these things for ourselves: it gives us the context and motivation for doing what we are doing and being in Ukraine at this time

and the people here want to show us what has happened

we need to bear witness

we need to try and address all the idiots that rant online about this all being staged: that the corpses on the streets in bucha were actors playing dead

and its not over

the war is raging ferociously on the east and south

and could return here too

russia MUST be stopped

Putin thinks he's 'Peter the Great' and wont stop

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this was the bridge the ukranian army blew which kept the russians from advancing to Kyiv

bucha is so close to Kyiv: they got just 15 miles away

Perous Secret Diary - Keep Out: June 11, 2022