Ukrainian peacekeeper

Ukrainian peacekeeper guards temporary dislocation place of Ukrainian peacekeeping troops at US military base El-Kiot, some 40km away from Iraqi boundary, in Kuwait on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2003. The temperature in Kuwait is 55 degrees Celsius in shadow. A human can't stay at the open air more than two hours. Monday morning, Aug. 11, 2003 the first column of Ukrainian peacekeepers as part of US stabilisation forces crossed the Kuwait-Iraq boundary and moved to its permanent dislocation in Al Kut town, Vasit province. Photo by Viktor Pobedinsky / UNIAN / reportage made at the support of Ukraine's Defence Ministry