Author: Doug Specht, Reader in Cultural Geography and Communication, University of Westminster

In the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian armoured columns pushed east along the Zhytomyr highway towards Kyiv. Makariv, a small settlement of about 10,000 people 36 miles west of Kyiv, sat on their route. The town was wrecked in the month of fighting that ensued. Roughly 40% of the settlement’s infrastructure […]