Reporter’s Notebook: Witnessing Russia-Ukraine war, recalling past horrors
Fox News
Ukrainian citizens recall past horrors and experiences as they witness the ongoing war with Russia and the tragedies unfolding across the country as a result.
Steve Harrigan currently serves as an Atlanta-based correspondent for Fox News Channel (FNC). He joined the network in 2001 as a Moscow-based correspondent.
Security nodded. That was all I knew. I wasn't going to ask Pohl about the mosquito. It was hard to imagine him going crazy. I had worked with him a long time ago but did not remember the country or the war. He did. The Iraqis were putting prisoners in small metal cages."We did the standup inside a cage," he said.Like our late cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski, Pohl did not tell war stories. For 30 years, he had been to some places. But, at a long, slow Soviet hotel dinner with me and security, the mosquito story started to come out. I was at my own little table on Pohl's right. I looked straight ahead at the empty chair and the wall across from me, not saying a word, hoping the mosquito story would come.
Kinshasa. Been there but forgot the country. Looked it up on my phone as the story continued.