What is this woman doing? Well, she was, at the time the photo was taken, doing 2 things: 1) Politely asking the journalist taking the photo if she could use his phone and (2) Dying.
She had been working in the civil administration building in Lugansk on 2nd June 2014.
Moments earlier the Ukraine Air Force had flown an Su-25 ground attack plane over the street outside the civil administration building and strafed the area with what seems to have been 30mm rounds.
Of course, the Kiev government denied it was anything to do with them. The OCSE reported the following day "In Luhansk the situation remained volatile. On 2 June,
shortly after 15:00 hrs, rockets hit the occupied regional
administration building. Based on the SMM’s limited observation these
strikes were the result of non-guided rockets shot from an aircraft. The
number of casualties is unknown". https://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/119479
Regardless of who did what, the poor lady in the photograph died of her wounds a short time later.
CNN published this report, clearly discrediting the Ukraine government's denials:
https://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/119479
On the same day, the BBC published this weasel-worded nonsense: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27661848. No doubt, the BBC would consider it churlish of me to suggest that the "reporter" contributing this item was sat in the Dog & Duck in Piccadilly, getting his feed via a Ukraine "source". Churlish or not, I'll take that risk and say just that!
Yet, here we are, over 8 years since this incident and the pompous bastards at the BBC maintain that this struggle/war/conflict (delete that which doesn't suit you) began 8 months ago. No stupid! It began over 8.5 years ago. Try and be a little more honest with your audience. Or try and get another job!
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