Have Russians set up a military base in my childhood home?
20 hours ago Share Save Vitaly Shevchenko Russia editor, BBC Monitoring Share Save
BBC Satellite images suggest the property in Zaporizhzhia has been occupied by Russian soldiers
It was another busy day at work. Russian forces had attacked my home region of Zaporizhzhia again: a region in the south of Ukraine, split between the Russian invaders, who claim it all as theirs, and the defending Ukrainians. Sitting in my office in central London, I was feeling nostalgic. I decided to take a quick look at the latest satellite images of my childhood village - the poetically titled Verkhnya Krynytsya (or Upper Well in English), in the Russian-occupied part of the region, just a few kilometres from the front lines. I could see the familiar dirt tracks, and the houses drowning in lush vegetation. But something caught my eye.
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