The research director of a think tank called UA Experts thinks she has found a way, armed with a smartphone, a social media account and years of legal training.
Her name is Maria Avdeeva, and we began to listen to her reports in Kharkiv, the embattled Ukrainian city just 20 miles from the Russian border.
She posts daily updates from bombed-out buildings in and around the city centre, often as incoming shells and rockets echo around her.
"Hello, Maria Avdeeva from Kharkiv, Ukraine, 18th of March," says one.
"I went out today to get some food and then the shelling started again, it started this morning and (it) went on and on, and I hid in this building which actually has been a business centre."
In the video, Maria walks up the stairs in a 19th century building before revealing a devastated office with desks, chairs, and computers covered in dust and glass.
"I am just (struck) by what I see," she says. "People were running out of here, leaving everything (behind). They didn't anything with them, they left everything here."
Her voice trails off with an anguished tone.
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