“I feel it necessary and proper and right to put that stuff out,” says Sweeney. Surely one of the most shocking images of the conflict to have been released publicly came from his camera: a dead civilian in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, with a gaping hole in their forehead.
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He believes he has a responsibility to show the uncensored reality of war, sharing images you will not see on TV or in newspapers. Sweeney’s words are drenched in moral indignation at what Vladimir Putin’s soldiers are doing in Ukraine.
John Sweeney reporting from the scene of a Russian attack in Ukraine (Photo: John Sweeney) His Twitter following has quadrupled to 245,000, his Taking on Putin podcast has been high in the charts, and his new book Killer in the Kremlin examines the sins of the Russian leader’s regime through the prism of Sweeney’s own work. “I didn’t have a flak jacket or a helmet.” Only once he was in Kyiv did he hurriedly set up a Patreon account and appeal for online subscribers. “I didn’t have a newspaper behind me,” he says. While all war reporters face incredible danger, in some ways Sweeney was taking a bigger risk than most – flying to a country about to be invaded as a freelancer with no contract. “I first saw war crimes committed by the Russian army 22 years ago,” says Sweeney, speaking to i from his Umbrian hideaway, “and I’m now seeing the same f*cking thing all over again.”
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