Brit tourist streams sounds of gunfire from window of his Ukrainian hotel room
dailystar.co.ukevacuated from Afghanistan last year amid widespread criticism of his “disaster tourism,” has now travelled to Ukraine, where he is live-streaming the sound of battle from his Kyiv hotel room.
In a sarcastic tweet about the situation, international aid worker Miles Routledge wrote: “Hearing some bombs right now, very inconsiderate because we’re trying to sleep."He later added: “It’s gotten to the point where gunfire and bombing noises just don’t register, I hear them and do not worry in the slightest.
You get used to it very quickly, all the Ukrainians here say the same."Miles has been live-streaming the distant sounds of artillery fire and the cracking of AK-47s on his YouTube channel, with commenters praising him as “a legend”.But one British army veteran has previously described Miles’s brand of street-level war reporting as “naive and dangerous”.Miles has stressed that his reports from the world's front lines fund his charity work. “I was in South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya bringing bibles, food, medicine and thousands of dollars to remote areas for the people who really needed it,” he says. “These were the areas no NGO or charity dared to go”.In a GoFundMe post explaining where he spent the money, Miles wrote: “I understand you’re not meant to speak about charity work but I have to hold myself accountable for people’s donations and show where it goes, after all, there are some scummy people out there unfortunately.
Thank you all but be careful where you donate!”Nevertheless, Miles's social media posts about life in war-ravaged Ukraine have been met with criticism.One commenter wrote: “People die in a war – this humour is so silly and superficial,” later adding: “Yes I understand and this is very.
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