The correspondent of the "Los Angeles Times" Sergei Loiko received the Award Bob Considine speaking, which is awarded by the American club foreign journalism. Loyko awarded for coverage of events in Ukraine.

The American club foreign journalism has been awarded since 1975 for the coverage of international issues. Sergei Loiko commented on its award on the air of "Echo of Moscow" notes Сensor.NET: "I believe that Russian journalists in the first place would, if not stop the war, we try not to fuel the fire of constant mildly true in every newspaper and on every television. In Ukraine there was no reason for such a terrible war. I spent the whole year was on both sides and my opinion is: No the people of Crimea and Donbas is not threatened, except girkinykh, borodaev and Butlerov, armed with tanks and missiles, bought from a nearby px.

I am proud that I was the Russians who receives this prestigious American award for articles about Ukraine. I tried as I could, to write and shoot the truth about this war. She and I took the nearest person. I understand that in Russia, 86% can consider me a liar and an enemy, but they then still they will understand and learn, as it was in 1955 and 1991. Russia walks in a circle. I love my Homeland - Russia and wish good things for her. In my articles and photographs - just the facts, what I saw with my own eyes. They have no conclusions. Let everyone make them myself."
To run a mile at the barrel of a sniper. To descend into the darkness of mined basement. Stakeouts with fighters that death behind the destroyed airport. If the essence of journalism is in the careful study of the subject in order to find the truth, then Sergei Loiko and Carol Williams has done in Ukraine is a impressive work.
His great cycle of stories, the band takes us so close to the action that rampant chaos and danger become literally tangible. His materials not only offer readers the information they contain almost intimate details of nature.

In its atmospheric history from the charred ruins of the international airport, he writes about "enemies, dividing one building and playing in dark rooms and scorched on the landing strips into a claustrophobic game of cat and mouse". This closeness, this unity with historical events becomes one of the motives of his work.

When snipers were killing protesters in Kiev, the band accompanied the father looking for his son, but the finder of the corpse: "Then he raised his blue helmet that lay at the feet of the body, and was sticky inside from the blood. Ran trembling fingers over its surface until not found what I was looking for - a hole left by the bullet of 7.62 millimeters, such as those that are used in the Dragunov sniper".

He was there when in a cold garage the wife spent the last moments together with her deceased husband. "She touched his battered face and stroked his cold hands, as if the warmth of her fingers might Wake him up," wrote the band.

Or destroyed from the basement: "Gasping, swearing, stumbling, falling and rattling a variety of weapons, fighters rushed to hide behind the walls of the adjacent rooms, and the beams of their lights loomed in the dark chaotic patterns".

The proximity to the war is expensive. One Ukrainian soldier, photographed Loyko, saved the journalist's life, warning about the place where there is a catastrophe. This soldier was killed the day before the photo was published.

If Loyko described in detail the life and death, Carol Williams was interested in more. She has researched the events, guided by the knowledge gained by decades while working in the Soviet Union, and her articles are full of analysts with a minimum of words.

Material about special police units flooded the Ukrainian capital: "Like any good lie, dismissive words of Russian leaders that the protesters that toppled the government in Ukraine are fascists and criminals, has a grain of truth."

We are convinced that such reports, sensitive to detail and containing authoritative opinion, are a model of how to work as a foreign correspondent, writes the editor of the "Los Angeles Times" Davan Maharaj.

Source:http://censor.net.ua/