It was he who took the unique photos Viktor Yushchenko while cooking dinner in an ordinary Kyiv kitchen. It was he who accidentally witnessed the conversation Leonid Kuchma with the Chinese leader about nuclear weapons. And it was he who filmed the unique footage of the aftermath of the Russian bombing of Grozny. He also personally witnessed the arrest of Saddam Hussein through the camera lens.

All this is only a small part of the episodes of his life. The legendary photojournalist Yefrem Lukatsky is their bearer. And he is the guest of the LIGA.Podcast episode.

This is not a conversation about photos. This is a conversation about the incredible stories that accompany virtually every one of his pictures. Inside, you will learn about his off-camera dialog with Rinat Akhmetov, tips To Petro Poroshenko in the first months of the war in 2014, an audience with Dzhokhar Dudayev at the height of the First Chechen War, and a unique footage of the night of the adoption of the Ukrainian Constitution.

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