Irish Examiner view: Brave journalists documenting the horrors of war

Reporting on conflict in Ukraine is more dangerous than any and puts the bravery of journalists there into clear context

Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from the maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, last week. Picture: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP

The image of a heavily pregnant woman being stretchered from the remnants of a maternity hospital in Mariupol by Associated Press photographer Evgeiny Maloletka gave the outside world a tiny glimpse of the horror being rained down on innocent Ukrainian people by Vladimir Putin’s invading Russian army.

That woman and her child died, doctors unable to save them from the injuries incurred in a barbaric attack on an undefended civilian target. Maloletka’s picture, however, had told the world a vivid story.