June 8, 2018
From a series of Twitter threads posted in June 2018: Welcome to Chernobyl, Ukraine, site of the world’s worst nuclear accident on April 26, 1986. I’ve come here on a special day-tour from Kyiv. The site is about 62 miles north of Ukraine’s capital, about 10 miles from the border with Belarus. At the start […]
June 13, 2018
From June 13, 2018: Today I went exploring in the extensive catacombs underneath the city of Odessa, Ukraine – one entrance to which you can see in the picture below, in the city outskirts. Most of Odessa’s catacombs were originally underground quarries for the stone used to build the city. But they became a vital […]