Ukraine war reporter desires to quit profession: ‘Will be writing stories of whales, polar explorers’

After close to 50 days of Russian atrocities on foreign soil, heartwrenching first-person narratives from ground zero, viral images and videos and civilian appeals for a ceasefire have left the entire world in a state of shock and grief.

A village guy from Donbas in a crusade for something better .,” reads his Twitter profile bio.

Ponomarenko wrote in his latest tweet, “When this war is over, I’m gonna quit war journalism.

During the war, Ponomarenko has been fulfilling his duties as a reporter by sharing visuals and reports from ground zero.

One of the Twitter users empathised with his plight, writing, “War journalism must be one of the hardest things to do.

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