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- Illia Ponomarenko is one of Ukraine's best known war reporters.
- He has covered the Russia-Ukraine conflict since the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
- His book "I Will Show You How It Was: The Story Of Wartime Kyiv" is out May 7.
Illia Ponomarenko grew up in the city of Volnovakha in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. He was a student at Mariupol State University in 2014 when war broke out in the Donbas, and Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula.