We had been working our contacts for months and the call finally came with just 36 hours’ notice. We needed to make our way from London to Kiev, a war zone, and be ready for the interview. We scrambled, the team were all over the UK, including in the pub, and came together at Luton Airport in the early hours of the next morning. Flying to Moldova took just three hours - it was difficult for me to process that war was so close to home. Arriving with all the camera gear, body armour and what I thought would be appropriate clothing to interview a wartime leader in a besieged capital city, we decanted from the plane and into two sturdy vehicles. The journey across the border to Kiev would take around 10 hours and the seven-person-team settled in. Bumping along potholed roads in the dark was at best uncomfortable, but we had a deadline to beat, curfew was at 11pm and if we didn’t make the hotel by then we’d need to stay outside the city for the night. The regular border crossing was closed and so we had to opt for a longer route which added valuable time that we just didn’t have.
The President Will See You Now
The President Will See You Now
The President Will See You Now
We had been working our contacts for months and the call finally came with just 36 hours’ notice. We needed to make our way from London to Kiev, a war zone, and be ready for the interview. We scrambled, the team were all over the UK, including in the pub, and came together at Luton Airport in the early hours of the next morning. Flying to Moldova took just three hours - it was difficult for me to process that war was so close to home. Arriving with all the camera gear, body armour and what I thought would be appropriate clothing to interview a wartime leader in a besieged capital city, we decanted from the plane and into two sturdy vehicles. The journey across the border to Kiev would take around 10 hours and the seven-person-team settled in. Bumping along potholed roads in the dark was at best uncomfortable, but we had a deadline to beat, curfew was at 11pm and if we didn’t make the hotel by then we’d need to stay outside the city for the night. The regular border crossing was closed and so we had to opt for a longer route which added valuable time that we just didn’t have.