48. The yellow and blue flag of Ukraine is an
imaginary landscape. It supposedly
symbolizes the endless fields and blue skies
of a Ukrainian rural idyll.
Gazing north near the border with
Chernobyl, one can be forgiven for being
taken in by this fantasy; the yellow
unploughed fields stretching out to the
horizon. The illusion is broken however, by a
distant strip of green conifer trees and
disused pylons where the sky meets the
earth. Beyond these trees lies the Exclusion
Zone.
Ukraine’s other crisis: Living in the shadow
of Chernobyl – where victims receive just 9p
a month and are left to fend for themselves