To go with AFP story by Maryke VERMAAK with Lea DAUPLE and Andriy KALCHENKO.
This photograph taken in Borodyanka, Kyiv region, on November 7, 2024, shows damaged Taras Shevchenko monument with bullet holes in the town square, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Spanish traveller Alberto Blasco Ventas looked out at Ukraine's destroyed Irpin brige, blown up to stop Russian troops in 2022 and now a hotspot for thrill-seeking tourists visiting the country. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)