Ukraine War: Even the Dead Are Not Spared
Four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, families near the front are forced to exhume loved ones and move their graves west - a grim reminder that nowhere is truly safe.
Four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion, the war’s most haunting truth is that even the dead are not spared. Reflecting on my Globe and Mail Op-Ed and conversations with global media today, one image refuses to leave me: families in eastern Ukraine forced to exhume loved ones and move them west, away from the front line. It is a brutal metaphor for a war that keeps shifting the boundaries of safety and memory. When even graves are no longer secure, it tells us something profound about the failure of the world to stop this conflict - and about Ukrainians who continue to carry both the living and the dead through history’s darkest stretch.
Aside from the video below, is one I produced early in the war, illustrating the unimaginable death and destruction brought by the invasion. You can watch it here.
▶️ Watch the All-Access video below — my unfiltered reflections four years into the war.