I saw that today. Clearly, the cameras are staging, 100%. Journalists are parasites who want to feed off of sensation, and it's true worldwide, so that's what we're seeing in his first few videos. They need b-roll so they're creating it.

What I'm more interested in are the later ones. Kyiv isn't under attack, but we know that. The Russian convoy is stalled and hasn't moved in days for some reason. No one's really explaining why. One would think a stalled 40-mile convoy would be cut to shreds within a day by all those anti-tank Javelins we sent over there, and yet, they're not, despite their vulnerable position.

Most of the fighting seems to be happening around Kharkov, to the East, which is surrounded, around Mariupol to the southeast, which is being shelled in order to create a corridor between Russia proper and Crimea. It's reasonable to think if this guy is in Kiev (it pisses me off to hear or spell "keev". It's Russian. It's Kiev /rant), if he's in Kiev, he's not near the fighting to see the fighting. Clearly there are soldiers around who aren't letting civilians go near the danger zones, which is something I'd expect.

We may just be seeing the "wait" part of the "hurry up and wait" that defines what real war looks like, at least according to soldiers I've talked to.