The author, left, on the front lines in eastern Ukraine. (Photo: Nolan Peterson/The Daily Signal)
Nolan Peterson, Daily Signal: Reporting From the War Zone: Why Conflict Journalism Matters
KYIV, Ukraine—In June of 2015, I spent eight days embedded with the Ukrainian army in the front-line town of Pisky in eastern Ukraine.
I’ve been back and forth to the front lines in eastern Ukraine many times in the more than two years I’ve covered this conflict, but those eight days in Pisky stand out from the rest.
It was an active time, with near constant artillery and mortar fire. The supersonic snap of bullets overhead was common, as was the background din of machine guns and small arms. A tank even shot at me.
It was terrifying. As a former U.S. special operations pilot, I had never witnessed that level of combat intensity in Iraq or Afghanistan. Even when I embedded with the Kurdish peshmerga outside of Mosul in Iraq in May, I didn’t see such heavy fighting.
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WNU Editor: Nolan Peterson's take on how uninterested the Western media is on the Ukraine war is spot on. The lack of coverage is truly astounding.
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