Nothing new from the West (Swiss Press Text 2023, by Peter Haffner) - Swiss Press Award

Das Magazin

Peter Haffner

In the fall of 2013, I planned to travel to Ukraine. I arrived in Kyiv in February 2014, shortly after the Euromaidan massacre. I spent a month traveling through the country to the Russian border and witnessed the occupation of Crimea. Since hundreds of journalists were reporting on it, I decided against it. After Putin's attack on Ukraine, I wrote the enclosed essay-like reportage.