Who Killed Two Journalists In Ukraine? And Why? • Discoverology

Who Killed Two Journalists In Ukraine? And Why?

An investigation and trial has answered some of the questions about what happened to Andrei Mironov and the Italian photographer he was accompanying. Yet so much remains uncertain. Theirs is a story of the murky nature of facts in a war zone. It’s a story of elusive moral clarity in a land where death comes from who knows where.

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