At about 9am on February 24th last year, four hours or so into the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the lobby of a hotel in the country’s second city, Kharkiv, was noisy with journalists, photographers, TV crews and others urgently trying to decide their next moves. As they discussed where best to cover the first clashes of the all-out war, or how to escape a city that is just 30km from the Russian border, several Ukrainian soldiers rushed in from the street, including at least one carrying a long-barrelled sniper rifle. Their anger when a photographer sought a quick snap...