On Hearing of Russian Soldiers Booby-Trapping Dead Ukrainian Civilians with Land Mines
By Karen Kilcup How do they do it— lift a heavy head and place the bomb beneath an ear? Slide the metal disc under a shoulder or thigh? Or worse: do they slice the swollen long-dead chest, flies fluttering, the stink unbearable, nearly? Do they carve a red-rimmed cavity large enough to implant the device, [...]