Three Bags of Ladies Clothes & a Sniper To the Ukrainian Border and Beyond
When on 24 February 2022 Russian tanks rolled in Ukraine, Jaap Scholten went to the border to help a young family from Kyiv. In the weeks that follow he became more and more involved in the conflict.Scholten collected money for drones, traveled in his pick up through a country at war. Attended a funeral in Irvin the with director of a Kyiv cake factory. From an American sniper Scholten heard about life at the front and the mission to save a six-day-old baby from an underground hospital in Mariupol.Three Bags of Women's Clothing and a Sniper is a personal logbook and a unique report on the astonishing courage, resistance and solidarity that the war has unleashed in the Ukrainians. A turbulent road trip through Ukraine and an ode to the stalwart Ukrainians.