What we found inside Ukraine’s secret missile factory
There are few experiences stranger than climbing into the back of a minibus and being blindfolded. Emblazoned across the front of each of our eye covers was a slogan: ‘Trust the Darkness.’ It was an appropriate motto. For Shaun Pinner, the echoes were uncomfortable. He has driven blindfolded through Ukraine before. The last time as a prisoner of war when he was captured during the siege of Mariupol in 2022. He was driven into occupied Donetsk, uncertain whether he would ever see daylight again, and sentenced to death by a Russian-backed kangaroo court. Shaun spent months in captivity before being released in a prisoner exchange.
