Day 1460
What the Square Knew
It is 05:30 on Sunday morning in Kyiv and Russia has already launched at least 16 rockets at the city. CNN’s Clarissa Ward, who told Politico’s Dasha Burns this week that Ukrainians no longer feel superhuman — that they feel broken, exhausted, barely able to get out of bed — is somewhere in the city on assignment. If she can get to the Motherland monument in Park Slava before sunrise, the lighting over the Dnipro will be perfect. So will the drones. It would make rather better television than the soggy toast anniversary package filed on Friday and sourced entirely from Z’s own circle. The real story is elsewhere. It has been elsewhere for some time.
Two of the most significant works of long-form journalism published in the past two months — Adam Entous’s 12,500-word investigation in the New York Times and Shaun Walker’s 6,700-word account in the Guardian, produced by 19 journalists, …
