the war in Ukraine told by Sol Macaluso, Laura de Chiclana and Constanza Pérez

The war between Ukraine and Russia it blew up over a year ago. Since then, tens of thousands of people have died in this armed conflict that we have been able to witness in part thanks to brave journalists as Sol Macaluso, constanza perez y Laura Chiclana. Women who have not minded risking their lives for the love of their profession. This March 8, International Women’s Daywe wanted to highlight the figures of these three courageous mediaset reporters who have been at the foot of the canyon at different times and stages of the conflict.

From the uncertainty of those first months that Sol Macaluso had to face, to the harshest part of the war covered by Laura de Chiclana and Constanza Pérez, who for the sake of his mental health they have been taking relays every several months before returning to war territory.

On a day as significant as today, we interview these three powerful communicators who tell us exclusively about their respective experiences at the front as journalists, but above all, as women. Beyond the hell that they have been able to see with their own eyes, the three have had to face very hard situations that show the long way that we still have to go in feminist matter.

Although there is an abyss between Spain and Ukraine (we cannot forget that, for years, it has been one of the main exporting powers of surrogates), here they have also been witnesses and victims of the machismo, inequality and the gap between men and women.

In the networks, Sol Macaluso has been questioned for having shown a versatile personality and “for having gone very cute with her hair and nails to the war conflict”as in his day he came to hear while I made titanic days and hardly slept to be able to tell the reality that he saw through his eyes. “We are the women trying to work to break down these prejudices and those comments that are never lacking”, the journalist highlighted in this interview.

At the other end of the European continent, Constanza has been able to see “women keeping company with the military, super-groomed, with their dresses and their eyelashes” while the city burned by their side. Also, how she passed through her checkpoints without having to prove herself, while her colleagues were required to show her the corresponding identification. “They continue to see women as a weaker element and it is very sad, because we have the same value as a man. They see you defenseless and they think you can’t do anything“, he tells us.

Also in Ukraine, Laura de Chiclana has had to fight against the Discrimination from your own professional colleagues, who have come to treat her in a derogatory way “for being a woman and freelance”. “You are here to take a selfie,” she has been told during her coverage. For this reason, the communicator has taken advantage of this interview to emphasize a message that is very much in line with this March 8, International Women’s Day: “We can too. There is still a lot to fight and achieve“.

Was the first to show us the horror of the Ukrainian war. He hoped to cover a negotiation between two countries with obvious political tension. His idea was to go for three days, but in the end he stayed there to give voice to many stories, people whose lives were changed by the war from one day to the next.

From a shelter with hardly any coverage, he gave Outdoor his first interview. At that time everything was very in diapers. He did not have an escape plan, nor a bulletproof vest, nor a helmet at first, nor did he know when he would be able to communicate again or if he would have to save battery. They were all doubts, but his only certainty is that he wanted to be there to inform in the most effective way possible, against all odds and going over the wishes of their parents.

Their emotionally charged coverage in which it came to break live did not go unnoticed by anyone. tells us that she was judged and branded as unprofessional for openly showing her fears, but after a year has passed and with everything she has lived behind her, the young reporter tells us that she would do the same again. During all this time Sol Macaluso has shown that she is an all-round journalist.

For her there is no story that is unimportant. Her overwhelming journalistic testimony made us understand the magnitude of the horror that was lived in Ukraine. A reporter who, last year, also covered the World Cup in Qatar for Argentina and who has shown the most versatile and carefree side of her as a collaborator of ‘Ya son las ocho’. In this interview, she has told us that if they call her, she would be willing to return to Ukraine to continue with his objective of “humanizing war”although he has a very exciting project that will soon see the light of day.

Constanza Perez Haro just landed in Spain and is still assimilating. For the last three months, this thirty-year-old from Almería has been covering the war between Ukraine and Russia for more than a year. It’s not the first time she’s done it. Her first correspondent took place last summer, during the months of well-deserved rest that her partner Laura de Chiclana took after a long and hard period in war territory. This past Christmas she returned to give a new relief to her partner.

Reconnecting with the ‘reality’ of our country is proving difficult for her, who recognizes that it is still difficult for him to sleep soundly because of the sound of the bombs, missiles and cannon shots that still echo in his head. The reporter continues to deal with the harsh emotional shock of spending all that time at the bottom of the canyon and, although she is aware that the horror is over, she is still startled by hearing a door slam. Even so, She does not consider it and would be delighted to return if the opportunity presents itself.

His personal and professional life has completely changed. His reality has been transformed and his way of thinking has done so with it. She is now capable of assessing situations that no one is really aware of until they experience them. Living under the light of candles, without heating and at temperatures below 10º below zero. Dead, sick, wounded, devastated cities, shattered lives and a future that is uncertain…

It’s been our eyes for eight long months in which he has witnessed the horror up close. A commendable job that has made Laura de Chiclana a benchmark in the world of communication. Distinguished by the Madrid Press Association as ‘Best Young Journalist of the year‘, the young Andalusian has given us some of her valuable time with her. Between live performances and editing pieces, the communicator ‘invites’ us to what is his home in Ukraine: a house that he shares with his camera and whose owner is a Ukrainian who has fled the country due to the extreme situation.

This it’s not his first time at the front either. At 28 years old, she has behind her more than seven years in a war zone. Far from Spain, far from his family. Something that, he tells us, makes him feel “somewhat guilty.” But his vocation and his journalistic instinct have led him to disadvantaged places such as Ukraine, a country to which he now returns to continue “telling stories”.

Never mind the thunderous sound of the bombs, nor that “smell of gunpowder and death” that soaks him to the bonenor the terrifying images for which no one is ever prepared, when it comes to their profession, Laura de Chiclana is willing to put her life at risk to continue exercising what is “his passion”. In this exclusive interview, the journalist lets us meet the ‘other’ Laura, the young woman in whom it becomes when the camera is turned off and the bulletproof vest is removed.

At different times, the paths of the three have crossed at the same point. The war in Ukraine has exposed the importance of your work documenting the tragedy from his information trench. Here no matter the gender because the only option is to be good journalists.

If at times they have been left in the background because traditionally it has been said that “men are the ones who go to war”, these brave, committed and independent women They have shown that their passion for journalism goes beyond their profession.