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Caption: MH17
4 days in Donetsk
4 days in Donetsk
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Caption: The following is a personal account of my journey to the crash site of flight #MH17
I'm an international news cameraman who covers news events. While filming footage that is broadcast around the world I also try to take few images on my iPhone. This is my personal story illustrated with the images that I been able to take at the scene.
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Caption: Before entering the Donetsk region of Ukraine we mark our cars with large letters "TV". The front, back, sides and the roof of our cars are marked.
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Caption: Ukraine countryside is stunningly beautiful. Wheat, corn and sea of sunflower fields welcome us. It takes us over eight hours to reach our destination.
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Caption: Abandoned military check-points are the first sigh of an ongoing conflict. Later we pass through many manned check-points. We can not photograph the manned check-points.
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Caption: Signs of recent fighting. Burned out cars, destroyed military equipment and shattered forests. We are nearing the front lines.
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Caption: Ukrainian army convoy. Well over two dozen trucks, APC's and heavy artillery pass us by.
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Caption: The images are blurred. Taken through a car window at dusk. We don't get out of our cars and don't film openly.
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Caption: Ukrainian army soldier checking us out. The situation is tense and everyone is under scrutiny.
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Caption: Villagers come outside their homes to see the military convoy passing through their village.
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Caption: View from the seventh floor of the Donetsk regional government building.
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Caption: Fortified check-point manned by the Donetsk separatists.
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Caption: We arrive at the main crash site location. Cars belonging to journalist parked on the side of the road.
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Caption: The tail section of the plane.
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Caption: Fragments of plane.
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Caption: TV crew filming at the crash site.
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Caption: Emergency crews.
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Caption: Scattered among wheat fields.
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Caption: Heavily armed and masked separatists at the crash site.
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Caption: Emergency crews tents at the crash site.
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Caption: At crash site.
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Caption: A part of MH17 near a village.
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Caption: Flowers laid by locals.
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Caption: A makeshift shrine in memory of those who perished.
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Caption: Part of plane suspended in a tree.
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Caption: Setting up equipment for live broadcast from the crash site.
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Caption: Reporting from the site.
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Caption: Burned out field.
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Caption: Press awaiting a briefing.
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Caption: Local women attend prayer at the crash site.
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Caption: Departing Donetsk.
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Caption: Arriving in Amsterdam airport. Flowers laid in memory of those lost.
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Caption: Prayer at Amsterdam airport.
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Caption: Remembering those that perished.
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Caption: The End.